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Recently, my Google Talk silently updated itself (hey!). This update apparently removed the ability to disable idle detection, resulting in Google Talk advertising me as being available to chat whenever I touch my computer. I turn off idle detection because sometimes (often, in fact) when I’m using my computer, I don’t want to talk to […]

I haven’t taken many pictures recently. The weather has been uncooperative, and I’ve been busy with work… but I did recently buy a few really inexpensive lenses that ought to help me get better insect photos. Specifically, the new lenses allow me to be farther from the subject while still getting the same level of […]

Here’s my son eating in his sleep.

My wife took a picture of me recently while we were at a Chinese restaurant. Since I’m usually behind the camera, it’s rare to get pictures of myself. This one actually turned out reasonably well, so I’m posting it.

My youngest kid found some baba nipples to play with, walked into the room, and said “look, dad! I have a baba hand!” Sure enough… It seems to be fully functional: A few minutes later she made me a baba cake. Unrelated, here are a couple pictures of a badly parked car outside the office […]

Sometimes I spend time drawing with my kids. Recently I drew “squishy face” for my three year old.

I fixed my little baby digital camera. It took a while, but the operation was a success, and it’s all better now. Now I will have a digital camera with me at all times again. Phew!

I found a replacement LCD on eBay for my pocket digital camera. Soon I’ll be taking pictures again. In the meantime, I’ve been uploading old photos to Flickr. I’m uploading all my digital photos, which (with the current upload limit of 2 Gigabytes per month) will take about three years… assuming I stop taking photos […]