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Archive for February, 2008

Where to start,  hmm.   OK, today it is.   Today is my birthday,  happy birthday to me I guess.
This past Sunday we had the memorial for mom.   It was nice,  saw some relatives I don’t normally see, some dear old neighbors from when I grew up, etc.  The priest was very good and I liked [...]

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Politics

I really don’t know about tis years election. I think I’m left with a choice of the least objectionable candidate. I think I more or less fall into this category.
Its a shame really.

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In Memorium

Yesterday, February 15th,   my mom passed away.   I thought I had been prepared,  I’d been expecteding it for quite some time, but it still hit with a hammer.
My mom had Alzheimer’s, a terrible insidious disese.  In my opinion is was a secondary problem called by her battle wih Hydrocephalus (excess of fluid around the brain). [...]

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Summer

Summer, originally uploaded by Dave Kekish.
I finally processed this shot. I had been trying to capture the water splash effect but with limited results.
Part of my issue is that my external flash didn’t have batteries, so I was limited to the on board flash which doesn’t fire quite fast enough. [...]

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BRK on Drenden ran a gnome race today. I have no idea how many people were there but it was easily 250 or more. Lots of fun, here’s some pictures.
My mac held up rather well, lowest frame rate was about 23 (compared to many who claimed [...]

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Tranquility

Tranquility, originally uploaded by Dave Kekish.
Well I thought about flickr/zooomr for a few days (I have a tendancy to make snap decisions, so I wanted to wait).
And I’m back to flickr. I just feel better about it. I wish the guys at zooomr the best of luck, and while [...]

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Decisions

Up to now, I’ve been using Zooomr for photo hosting.   I had swapped to Zooomr from flickr for a few reasons and now I find myself thinking of going back.
Why?   Well there have been interruptions in service over the last 2 releases and the current service interuption has caused photo’s to not appear (they [...]

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