Shayne got me an awesome new lens for Christmas. It’s a Nikon 50mm f/1.8 autofocus lens. I love it! I wanted this lens because the lenses I have for my digital camera are not very fast. The light in my livingroom, where I take most of my pictures of Chloe, is generally pretty dim, so [...]

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and captured many great memories with your cameras. I’m back from my month-long break. Chris was great to cover for me while I’ve been busy with the craziness of life and work and toddlers (and, of course, a little cookie making). I have to admit that even though [...]

We had a great Christmas. My mom is out visiting and Chloe was being completely cute. Smush loves having lots of people around – the more the merrier. Christmas morning was hilarious. There was Christmas present carnage everywhere and Chloe was wild with excitement. I can’t imagine what our holiday will be like when she’s [...]

It’s been a busy year, so sit down, relax, and have yourself a Merry Christmas and a safe Holiday season!

Man, Mother Nature has been doing her best to give us some beautiful skies these past few days! What with the low clouds, the winds kicking up some dust, and tonite, the most awesome display of a Crescent Moon I’ve seen in a long time…just awesome! I can’t tell you how many sunsets I’ve taken [...]

The question on Digg went: “How would you explain to a 50 year-old computer noob why the Microsoft wireless photo keyboard that he saw stacked in PC World does not work on his Ubuntu machine? What happens when a piece of hardware breaks?” When I installed Ubuntu on my mom’s laptop I told her that [...]

I totally ran out of gift tags, I realized, as I sat on the floor looking at a giant pile of unmarked, wrapped presents. What to do? I couldn’t face yet another run to Target, so I decided to make my own. Schoolhouse Rock told me that necessity is the mother of invention, so here’s [...]

I didn’t think this one through, actually. I’ve used Debian for years and knew I wanted to use something based on it. I don’t like the look of KDE much. I wanted a LiveCD so I could test things. Ummm… that leaves me with Ubuntu. My business partner, Christoph, uses Gentoo. He likes the control. [...]