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christine and storm, originally uploaded by insidious_plots.

flickr description: “i had to take a bunch of these to get this shot and it isn’t even that great…”

i am fond of it, though…

[this post will be bumped up to the top every day for the next week or so, but it was originally posted august 18, 2008… if you have read this announcement already, just scroll down to see new posts…]

beginning asap, my blog is going to get updated a lot more frequently – i am going to start aggregating my twitter, flickr, etc. into this one spot…

two things have triggered this:
one – finding out that twitter is not keeping a long-term archive of my posts… and they weren’t searchable anyway… if only i had started archiving long ago 🙁
and two – having a dslr and being able to view the pics on my psp and now realizing i can upload to flickr from my psp (and flickr will then post them to my blog), i think i will start finally using flickr more… i hope…

but, my blog has never been a frequent-update kinda’ place… this has always mostly been just a place to put links to everything and all my contact info… so, for the last five or more years, i have used the service offered by changedetection.com to notify, via email, those who wanted to be notified when something changed on the site even before it was a blog… this has been handy for the less-tech-saavy in my life who don’t use rss, etc. to keep updated… well, since the blog will be updated daily (i have already turned on the service to daily make a blog post containing all the day’s twitters), i am going to discontinue the use of the changedetection.com service… i know this will be a bummer for some, but there is no sense in having an email go out every day…
the real problem is that changedetection is anonymous… i don’t know who is subscribed to me… so, i will leave the service up for a few days and hopefully you will read this post…

i look forward to my blog becoming something that gets updated regularly, and to using flickr more – i have quite a few photos i want to show off 🙂 and there will be a few tweaks to the sidebars of the site, and i may even bring back the chatbox so people can comment in general on the site, rather than commenting on a specific post or photo or whatever… and i will probably integrate dashwire to some extent, maybe this shozu thingy i’ve been playing with…

either way, big changes are a-comin’… maybe i’ll change the version number of my blog to 5.1 😛

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• Digging through photos and trying to choose one to post to my blog… #
• Grrrr, when i blog a pic from flickr, my blog reverts to the default theme!!(??) it has happened twice now! #
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even i get tired of sifting through so many of my photos, hoping to bump into a good one, so i finally made a “best of” folder…

you can peruse it here…

it is the stuff i think is best, not just sentimental value…
i have long wanted to separate the “photography” from the “snapshots” but can never think of a way to work that out in a way i like, so, i did this instead… i also changed my flickr badge over there on the right to only show pics from this set and added a direct link to it in my “all my online stuff” section on the side bar (which also has undergone a major change itself, in case you hadn’t noticed)…

as i say in the collection, i need to seriously whittle down – it was put together kind of hurriedly… here is the description on the set “i really need to whittle these down… maybe HALF this many… anyway, these are arranged from newest to oldest – as time has gone by, i have learned a bit more about photography techniques and have gotten better cameras, so i say the newer stuff is the best of the best, but, your taste may vary…”

anyway, the changes to my various online stuff continues…

book of ruth, originally uploaded by insidious_plots.

not my best pic ever, but, i actually spent some time trying to get this shot… as i sat at the men’s rally at calvary chapel abq, i was taking shots of people all around me with my recently acquired canon a720 and i just can’t bring myself to delete this one… this one is kinda’ dark, but, the detail was the best of the ones i took…

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• Seems Lionsgate did a blu-ray price cut – just found Crash and The Descent for $20 each!! I hadn’t bought them before at $30 a piece… #
• Here we are – terra, wesley, me – at the theater for Cirque du Soleil Delirium… Special engagement = $20 a ticket… #
• http://twitpic.com/8fwu – Wesley’s ready for the show… #
• Dashwire is only a feature or two away from me giving up TwitPic… #

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DSCN3508, originally uploaded by insidious_plots.

an old one, taken on a little piece of junk camera, but, it would have been nearly impossible to screw up these shots…
this is one of many shots i took of a sunrise on a flight from albuquerque to l.a. – if you click on the pic it will take you to where you can see more of them… this shot is one of my favorites – i love the surreal feeling…

meh, i just typed a bunch of stuff, deleted and started over and then again a couple times, so, i think i’ll stop trying and just let the photo do the talking 😛

though i will add that, when i first took these photos, i dunno’ maybe three years ago, this was probably the most popular of all of them and no less than five people had this one as the wallpaper on their computer…