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Short trip to Vancouver
Anna and I met up with family members to celebrate my Grandmother's 90th birthday. It was great to see everyone and enjoy the city. We were expecting rain, but instead had some gorgeous clouds and sun…
Diving Catalina Island with the OMD-EM5
A month back I finally got around to getting back in the water for some diving. I had just splurged on a large purchase - the Nauticam underwater housing for my Olympus OMD EM5 camera. I just had the …
Eversweet pomegranate
I planted an eversweet pomegranate tree about a year ago in a very hot and sunny part of the yard. It seemed to enjoy it and the still small tree has produced 5 fruit this year. They are quite unique,…
Review of alloyphoto's Lightroom Gallery 3 Export Plug-in
I've been using Gallery (aka Menalto) for almost a decade, starting with Gallery1, now up to Gallery3 in the current release. In the early days the work-flow for adding and providing meta data about p…
Gallery2 to Gallery3 - rewriting .jpg.html in URLs
I had a rough time trying to get my gallery2 install imported and moved to the gallery3 platform. The g2 import process stalled out a lot and crashed & burned hard when faced with different folder names for the redirects (/gallery became /photos). After a lot of fighting with the g2import module &…
Itchy feet
This 39 minute video is giving me some itchy travel feet: Temporary Story from Vadim Sahakian on Vimeo . The idea was to road trip from Alaska to Los Angeles, explore Southern and Central Africa, and …
The Case of the Missing Ancestor - The Denisovans
National Geographic has a great article on the discovery and further research related to our cousins the Denisovans . Everyone knows about the Neandarthals, and at this point I think most people know …
Unrest in Turkey
It has been interesting to watch the ongoing strife and turmoil that has been shaking Turkey. We were there for two weeks in March & April and had a chance to speak with a number of people in differen…
Backing up data on AWS EC2 Micro instances using the CrashPlan headless Linux client
I've been using a combination of scripts to do local backups on my Amazon EC2 micro instance I use to serve this website - AutoMySQL Backup and some cron jobs which ran rsync for various paths on a ro…
Facebook's suggested gifts algorithm needs some work
Some good friends of ours recently had their first child and posted photos on Facebook. When viewing that post on the desktop version of Facebook it had a little ad which suggested giving a gift to th…