Female Anna’s Hummingbird This photo was taken with Canon Rebel XT, 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS USM, Speedlite 580EX II Flash, with the Gary Fong Origami Diffuser. Taken at my parent’s house in Tacoma, Washington. I really like this photo, however I wish I used shutter priority instead of aperature. While the movement of the bird looks interesting, there [...]

My niece Nora at 9 months with her mom Holly This photo was taken with Canon Rebel XT, 50mm f/1.8 II, Speedlite 580EX II Flash, with the Gary Fong Origami Diffuser. This is the first photo I am posting to the site in an effort to keep the site updated. If you have any questions geeky [...]

It’s hard to remember the number of times I’ve went to update this site and just drawn a blank. Writers block is a horrible state that happens to just about everyone. Skribit is a way to get around that. It allows your readers to suggest ideas and then vote on them. It is about the [...]

I never understood the reason behind so many geeks being obsessed with cameras before I actually started taking pictures. That was because I never really understood how to take a good picture. It is very technical. First, you have to understand the various settings on the camera. You can go out and use auto mode, [...]

In my attempt to keep up on podcasts I finally gave up with Miro and found a great shell script called BashPodder. This is a very simple script that keeps all of your podcasts up to date with very little effort. It was missing a few features that I wanted, so I updated the script [...]

Leopard seems to have a problem when you have more than two DNS servers set. As soon as I added a third DNS server to the list all connections nearly dropped out. It would take over five seconds to load any page. The fix to this problem is to use only two DNS servers. I choose [...]

Matthew Helmke recently posted and article entitled What is the coolest thing you can do using Linux that you can’t do with Windows or on a Mac? This is chalked full of fallacies that are quite common in the Linux advocacy world. I am going to take a look at each one of these items [...]

As I have talked about in the past, the URL/location bar in firefox 3 is just plain annoying. The latest beta build have had the option to disable the functionality by tweaking the about:config its not pretty, but it got the job done. In my geekyness I decided to give the latest nightly build a run, [...]

When dealing with clean URLs it usually means some complex regex for each and every single type of content. When using lighttpd and wordpress there is a much simplifier solution, 404 rewrites. All you need to do is add an error handler to your lighttpd.conf and a single line of php  to your theme. The first [...]

After a year of using Serendipity it is time to go with something else. I’ve converted the site to Wordpress and created a WP theme out of my old s9y template. For the most part you should not notice too much different. Since I did start from near scratch with this theme it should be [...]