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Dearth of Newsletters

I am having a hard time writing a newsletter to send out. What I have discovered is that after 3 years of using LCD monitors at work and on laptops I simply cannot stand to stare at a blurry screen for more than an hour or two.

This means that I either must crank the resolution way, way down or hijack someone else’s laptop to get a newsletter written. I could also get a new job, as that, presumably, would also have access to LCD displays again.

In the mean time I’ll spend a little time in front of the CRT and a lot of time away from it.

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A Photo Experiment

It’s a P-51 fighter converted to racing form at the Reno Air Races.

If it works as it should, there should be a thumbnail image and the ability to see the full thing. Hopefully you will see it as well.

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Reno Air Show 2004

After some pain, I now have all the pictures posted and available from this past weekend’s 2004 Reno Air Races.

Go take a look at the fast, cool planes.

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House Pictures Available

I’ve been prodded into posting pictures of the new place, so now I have. You can find them over there, in photos.

Don’t blame me if you get lost. It was hard for me to navigate around at first too.

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Gallery Up

I now have the gallery working again. Don’t ask me how, because it was a major pain. In any case you can now find it here. I hope that it will stay working now 🙂

Don’t forget that browser back button! Until I get more cleanup time there is no navigation to get you back here.

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It's More Or Less Working Again

After a lot of suffering it looks like this web site is nearly functional again, albeit on a very different server than where it started. But more about that later. I’m just happy to have this all working again. More details coming shortly.

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More Little Fixes

I spent most of the day tracking down all the little bugs in my various divs, css styles, and includes, but it looks like things are all good again. What a huge time sink it is to track down all the relative and absolute path breaks!

For now, the updated layout is working and it appears to work regardless of subdirectory or anything else. That’s “a good thing” since I have no desire to go through that mess again. Now I can get back to packing and thinking about putting some new content on this site.

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Usability fixes

I saw an article that got me interested in fixing a text problem on this site, so I fixed it. 🙂

All of the text on the pages of the site should now be resizable, thanks to the ingenious but difficult to understand em size tag. Now, when you run your browser with medium size set you should see the text as I intended it. But if you scale text up or down that now works too, and it stays within the borders of the layout.

There is also an article separator between posts thanks to a handy div style tag. Hopefully readability goes up as well.

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Picture Edits

I spent a lot of time today going through all my recent vacation photos and tagging them with metadata so they can be searched. The challenge is that many of them still don’t have good descriptions, so if you don’t know what to look for the metadata makes little sense.

I am hoping to have the final set of photos cleaned up and ready for presentation shortly. I also need to write the story behind the photos. That will be another chunk of time. I wonder what takes more work: shooting the pictures or doing something with them afterward? Where’s that auto metadata builder when you need it?

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Ski Pictures Posted

This latest week’s ski pictures are now posted in the gallery area. It was slushy, 60F skiing at its finest. I’m still hurting from it all. You can take a look at the whole story here.