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.
]]>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.
]]>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).
]]>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
I think this one is my favorite:
I do have a group picture of me and eighty eight of my relatives (not taken by me) and a group picture from Thanksgiving 2001 (taken by me).
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