Mar
01
2010
The big potato tower experiment was not a success. The original article in the Seattle Times makes it seem easier than it is. I haven’t heard of too many success stories so far.
We planted our potatoes around May 17th. We did our first test harvest 3 months later on August 17th. [...]
Feb
08
2010
I wrote this 6-page guide to posting photos with WordPress (PDF) for a friend who wanted to know the basics of writing posts and uploading photos to his website with WordPress. I wrote it as I was learning it, but I think I got most of it right.
It’s written for Vista PCs using Firefox, [...]
Tags: embed photos, embed videos, embed youtube videos, irfanview, picasca, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress photo gallery
Dec
29
2009
My five year old son used a camera for the first time the other day.
It’s his own feet. Either he dropped the camera and it took the photo when it hit the floor, or he’s bending over taking the photo upside down.
Dec
13
2009
We put up our Xmas tree yesterday. His name is Murrary.
This is the bare naked Murray.
Dec
07
2009
I used GoogleMaps this morning to give directions to someone out of town. I clicked on “street view” to provide them with a few landmarks and noticed a friend of mine in one of the street level photos. Then I started clicking around and pretty much took a virtual tour of downtown St. John’s, [...]
Nov
23
2009
I haven’t posted any photos of my cats for awhile, so here’s one of Nigel sitting on top of a door.
Tags: cats, pets
Oct
31
2009
I bought this at the farmers market today. It’s edible. Anyone want to take a guess at what it is?
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