Too many hobbies, not enough focus
So it's obvious that I've applied a new design to my website. This one is called HighLight and it is the first theme that I've paid for. My other theme was a free one, and while it was pretty good, it was starting to wear on me. I originally wanted to go dark, but now …
One of the major reasons that I moved to WordPress instead of coding my site by hand was so that I could change the look and layout easily. Instead of spending months designing, creating, and coding a new layout, I could just download or buy a layout that somebody else had made. That's what I've …
My father taught me about hard work. My father taught me how to do the right thing. My father taught me how to be confident in myself. My father taught me to be who I am. My father taught me how to treat a woman. My father taught me to have a sense of humor. …
We've had a lot of rain lately and the weather has just started to get better. There have been more and more beautiful days. On one such day last week we decided to take an evening trip to the beach. We were just planning to drive up to York and travel through, but I brought …
I read a few blog posts by Niel Van Nickerk about balancing flash with ambient light and I found them very intriguing. The posts were basically a detailed discussion of how to control fill flash, which is the act of using flash in a daylight setting to fill in the shadows in an image. But …
If you've ever driven down Borthwick Ave past the hospital you may have noticed the Liberty Mutual building that I work in. You may have also noticed that it has quite a bit of nice landscaping around it. We have a large man-made pond wrapped by a walking path and two bridges. There are trees, …
We all have things that we depend on, things that make us say "without X, I just don't know how I'd get by". The boys can be a lot of work even for two parents, and without these five things, I just don't know how we'd do it. Pre-Made Formula: When a baby is hungry, …
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Welcome to Taming Twins, a new series of anecdotes from our experiences as the parents of twin boys. As we experience new things with our sons we will post them in this series. Feel free to laugh and cry with us, or just make fun of us if you want. I'm sure a lot of …
We were at our friend's house last weekend planting a memorial garden when this little baby squirrel hopped across the lawn out of nowhere. He was very young, definitely a baby and definitely without his family. He seemed too young to be afraid of humans so he did his best to integrate with us by …
Remember film cameras? Remember how you had to choose the correct film speed in order to get your pictures to come out? Oh c'mon, you remember - ISO speeds - those numbers that indicated how sensitive the film was. ISO 100 was only for pictures outdoors in the sunlight, ISO 400 was all-purpose, ISO 200 …
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