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Valentine’s Day Photos

Not very good, but here are some photos from a short walk I took in the bitter cold on V-Day. Click the Snow Man to go to the full set on Flickr.

Happy snow man

Been awhile, here are some photos

It has been awhile, but no one is watching this Web site anyway so I don’t feel too bad 😉

In return for your patience (if you’re out there), here are some new photos:

Mon tortue, Elvis

Walking down the trail

Footprints in snow v2

Graffitti

Photos from the November 2009 Winter Market

Went to the first Winter Market of 2009 and tried to take more photos of people. Here are a few of my fav’es.

Market Vendors 3

Market Vendors 4

Market Patrons 1Market Patrons 3

Last Barbeque Cook-out of 2009!

Click the fiery grill for the full set on Flickr.

Looking down

More Pappajohn Sculpture Park Photos

Now I’ve got these hosted on Flickr. I may migrate them all, if this trial run works OK.

New photos: First Snow in Pappajohn Sculpture Park!

I may have bragging rights on this. I saw a few other folks in the park taking photos with point-and-shoots, but none were there with an SLR. Hopefully, I’ve done it justice.

I’ve uploaded several versions of four different photos — including the un-retouched versions as they came from the camera for comparison.

Please enjoy! I will try to add more over the next week or so.

Photos: Walk around the Neighborhood

Walk around the Neighborhood

CIALUG August Meeting Notes

  • Meeting topic was “graphics”, but we pretty much had a free-for-all discussion.
  • Last night I complied this list of graphics-related links. We really didn’t talk about this list all that much.
  • Dave Weis from Internet Solver had swag to hand out (spiffy tees) in celebration of being recognized in the Business Record as a Best Of
  • I brought some miscellaneous electronics and books to give away.

TheVUG meeting notes for August 2009

  • We met at Raccoon River Brewery around 7 PM.
  • The Iowa State Fair Parade was going on, so traffic was pretty bad getting in to downtown.
  • Microsoft Server 2008 with Hyper-V R2 is coming out soon. Sounds like there are going to be some Hyper-V improvements.
  • Debated security vs. business models for low-rate Web hosting. Many Web hosts do not pro-actively scan for security issues, adopting a strictly reactionary strategy. While economical, this can result in widespread outages if a vulnerability lands large numbers of hosts or entire subnets on black lists.
  • Several members are busy gearing up for VMWorld 2009

July 2009 CIALUG Meeting Notes

CHDK – Firmware hack for Canon point-and-shoot cameras

  • TJ reviewed the installation procedure and discussed some of the extra functionality to be gained.
  • Installs to a CF card (must be under 4 GB).
  • Booting to it does not replace anything on your camera, so camera’s firmware remains un-touched (read: you won’t void your warranty).
  • CHDK Wiki

Linux-y stuff

  • It does help to connect an antenna to your internal wireless card.
  • What happens when you send /dev/null to /dev/null? How do you get it back?

Social Media

  • Origins: USENET and IRC. MUDs, MUSHes and MOOs.
  • Photo sharing sites such as SmugMug, Picasa, Flickr, Shutterbug, PhotoBucket, etc.
  • OpenID use with sites.
  • Facebook, MySpace, etc.

After-meeting at Raccoon River Brewery