Long Trail
June 11th, 2006
Six intrepid explorers (and one intrepid baby) exploring the vast wilderness of the Long Trail in Vermont (or at least one part of it!)
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comment spam
June 4th, 2006
Well, it took a few weeks, but today I got my first barrage of comment spam. All from the same IP, so it it was easy enough to block, but I’m sure there will be more in a little while. Alas.
Nothing got through the moderation system, so no one else would have seen them, but it’s still sad to know that it happens. I’ve heard horror stories about blogs getting thousands of similar spam messages every day – in some ways, it’d be nice to be so popular, but it sure would be a hassle!
Anyone want some Cialis tabs?
bread
June 2nd, 2006
I cooked up a little loaf of bread:
It’s mostly rye flour. Very strange stuff… There’s hardly any gluten in it, so when you mix up the flour, it just turns into a creamy goop – very sticky, but doesn’t hold together at all. I added some normal bread flour and some extra gluten flour too, though that might not be so good any more – it’s been sitting in the fridge for years, since Catherine got it to make some bread way back when.
CAKE
May 17th, 2006
Our landlord got us a cake! I think he felt bad because so many people had come by to look at the place in the past month or so, and he also had to dig in our closet a few days ago to repair some plumbing upstairs.
Pentax firmware for linux
May 14th, 2006
If you have a Pentax *istDS camera, like me, you might have tried updating to the latest firmware. Unfortunately, it’s only available in a windows executable or a Mac hqx file, so it’s tricky to extract under linux. I’ve got a tarball including the original readme and the .bin itself, so feel free to use that instead.
I used to have this on the painfully disorganized main page here, so I figure it should be added back in, now that that page has been replaced by a blog. I don’t know if anyone’s ever downloaded the thing, (hasn’t happened since I trashed my machine and tossed all my old apache logs, anyway) – Let me know if you used it! In any case, it was a bit of trouble when I tried updating the firmware, so I thought I’d try saving you the time I spent in improving the packaging.
A blog!
May 13th, 2006
I now have a blog. Please treat it kindly…
I spent quite a lot of time searching for software to use for this. Almost just went with livejournal, and then I was on the verge of writing my own from scratch. Then I found bBlog, which appears to be almost exactly what I would have written myself (other than the fact that it works!) I heartily recommend it.
Forgive the feeble layout – still working on incorporating the blog into the rest of the site. A complete reworking may be in order soon, but that’s a lot of work, and work that I’m really not very good at, so it might be a while yet.
Homebrew macro
April 18th, 2006
By just turning my main lens around, and doing some awkward manual fiddling, very neat macro pictures can be taken!
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Old Photos
January 1st, 2006
Older photos that were uploaded before this blog existed can be found on the old photos page.
That page uses a php script that I wrote myself. I wasn’t happy with any of the existing photo album software out there – it was all too complicated, relied heavily on complicated databases and javascript and just didn’t do what I wanted it to do! Since then, wordpress has added much better support for photo galleries, so I’ve started using it instead.
I’m in the process of moving the old albums into wordpress, so I’ll keep pushing the date of this post further back. Eventually, I’ll remove it entirely!