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Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84

I was just telling Tracy that she should read Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.

He died last night.

I met him once. Great writer.

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In my 13 years of building sites, I don’t think I’ve ever had the time to keep an eye on details to the point where my site validated “green” according to W3C rules.

Throughout today and tomorrow we are converting 174 of our sites to version 2.0 templates in our CMS and the coding for every single page using the new templates is validates XHTML 1.0 Strict!

Great job Nick, Jonathan and Howard!

One-for-Ten Rule

I don’t think I’m a messy person. In fact, there’s this odd behavior where I pick up things found in the wrong place, and when I’m finished, I end up putting whatever it is back in the same wrong place.

My wife has been out of town for ten days, tending to our house that is still for sale in Birmingham, AL and visiting with her parents.

Maxine and I have been buddies in and around the house for the past week-and-a-half. We walked to Fairport several times. We went to the park several times. We climbed a small mountain in a snowstorm to go take pictures on Sunday. We’ve tracked in dirt, birdseed, snow and what appears to be about a half-bale of straw. As far as I can tell, we’ve only killed one house plant.

I’ve accumulated a pile of dirty clothes and two loads of dishes (surprisingly, I did not order pizza one time).

I’ve figured that it takes me about one day to clean up for ten days left on my own.

Hyper-local

Uncommonly individualistic.

Everyone else is doing it

High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging

I finally bought a tripod this morning and now I have the ability to make multiple images of the same scene. This allows for experimentation with the HDR tools in Photoshop. It seems somewhat weird that my first experiment was of the Kodak building in downtown Rochester, NY which I happened to pass on the way home from the camera store.