June 6, 2008
New Niece
Isabel Jean Walker, Born 2008/06/05
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February 1, 2008
Pictures
I finally got around to uploading some pictures:
- Halloween in Ravenholm (my pictures plus a couple that I borrowed from Jarrin's Halloween pics because he got better pictures of me than I did).
- Thanksgiving at our new house
- Christmas at our new house (plus a few other christmas pics)
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January 31, 2008
Busy Days
Just checked the site and realized it'd been quite a while since I updated.
Anyway, we bought the house we were hoping to back in August and are slowly but surely getting things together and adjusting to homeownership. I'm continuing to be chronically lazy about getting pictures online, which was significantly exacerbated by the move. The new house has allowed me to setup a movie/game room separate from the main living room. I've also found that Abby's aluminum christmas tree appears to improve the wifi distribution in our house. Taking it down will mean we'll need to start using the wifi extender again.
This winter has been an impressively Minnesotan winter. Lots of below zero days. We're going to need to improve the insulation situation in the house before the next one.
So, that's several half thoughts. I expect it would have taken me even longer to update this site if I had more stringent requirements.
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August 1, 2007
Doing Okay
Abby and I are okay and at home. Neither of us took 35W today.
Around 6:05pm cdt tonight the 35W bridge between University Ave and Washington Ave collapsed. CNN, strib. I don't currently take 35W as part of my commute, but would have started sometime in September when we move into our house.
I found out while I was working out in my apartment's exercise room. Scrubs had ended and I was flipping through the channels because I'd already seen last night's Daily Show. I came across Fox News' coverage of the collapse, then eventually switched to local news. I called Abby to make sure she was aware of what was going on. She'd gotten a call from her mother to make sure we were okay. I called my parents and brother and sister-in-law to let them know I was okay. None of them had heard about the collapse until I called but they were glad they heard from me first.
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August 29, 2006
Picture Catch-Up
I finally got around to uploading a bunch of pictures:- Memorial Day- 2005- A couple of pictures from Brian and Robin's Memorial Day BBQ
- Memorial Day- 2006- A couple of pictures from Brian and Robin's Memorial Day BBQ
- Ashley and Ryan's Farewell Party- A couple of pictures from Ashley and Ryan's farewell party
- Big Basin State Park- Pictures from my trip to the bay area back in June
- Coit Tower- Pictures from my trip to the bay area back in June
- Golden Gate Bridge- Pictures from my trip to the bay area back in June
- Marta And Todd's Wedding- Pictures from my friend Todd's wedding back in June
- San Francisco- Pictures from my trip to the bay area back in June
- San Francisco- Panoramas- Very wide or tall pictures from my trip to the bay area back in June
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August 15, 2006
LeConte Update
I've uploaded some pictures from my recent trip to Tennessee:
- LeConte 2006- pictures from the 2006 hike up Mount LeConte
- Rachel Hikes LeConte- pictures from Rachel's first hike up LeConte
Some pictures are shared between the two sets. The first set is focused on the hike in general, the second is focused on Rachel's experience.
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March 17, 2006
Holiday 2005 Wrap Up
I've finished uploading my pictures from the end of 2005: I also uploaded some older holiday pictures: I published one of these sets as an iPhoto Photocast: I think the Photocast idea is kind of cool but it eats up the limited space I have on my .Mac account fairly quickly. If I could store them on my other hosting service I'd put a lot more out there.Posted by coprock at 8:53 AM | Comments (1)
March 2, 2006
Minor Programming Update
I finally got around to modifying the gallery index scripts I use for this site tonight. They were minor modifications but they'd been bothering me for a while.
When I initially designed them the thumbnail image links went to the root level of each gallery. I thought that was a little strange since I was showing a specific thumbnail and then directing the user to the root gallery where they would then have to manually search through the images to find the image on whose thumbnail they clicked. That made sense at the time but in retrospect I decided it made more sense to go back to the original behavior and direct the user to the root gallery level. The thumbnail image is a much larger target for the user than the gallery title so I imagine users tended to click on a single image then back to the gallery level.
I also modified the navigation section on each page to change the links to simple numbers instead of "Page X". This more closely matches the actual gallery pages and is more space efficient (now that the general Pictures area has seven pages).
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Holiday Pictures and Photocasts
In the past couple of days I've uploaded three sets of holiday pictures:
Christmas Eve 2005
Christmas Day 2005
Hanukah 2005
I'm also trying something new. I've also uploaded all of these pictures as iPhoto Photocasts. If you have iPhoto 6.0 or above you can use the following links to add the pictures to your local iPhoto library:
http://photocast.mac.com/awalker/iPhoto/christmas-eve-2005/index.rss
http://photocast.mac.com/awalker/iPhoto/christmas-2005/index.rss
http://photocast.mac.com/awalker/iPhoto/hanukah-2005/index.rss
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February 28, 2006
Hanukah 2005
More holiday 2005 pictures- Pictures from Hanukah 2005.
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