Dog in Desert Sunset

Photo: Dog at Desert Sunset

There’s this small field at the end of a street in my neighborhood where I sometimes walk my dog. A couple weeks ago we were out there at dusk and the scene was fairly dramatic. I wound up with a decent shot of my dog

Use Crashplan to Backup Everything

Many years ago I lost everything. Well, not everything, but I had a RAID failure on an important file server that caused me to lose a fantastic collection of music, some photos and various other important files. I was already pretty good about backups and redundancy,

Child in Blue

Photo: Child in Blue

I’ve been taking pictures lately. A solid year or more went by where I hardly put my aging DSLR to use, but lately I’ve been spending a bit more time with it. I got it dusted off and warmed up in preparation for the birth

USB 3.0 Thumb Drives

USB 3, Pretty Zippy

I don’t tend to run the latest and greatest when it comes to tech. Like, almost never. As a result, I’ve been using USB 2.0 devices constantly, despite the much better, MUCH faster USB 3.0 spec being finalized in 2008 and devices beginning to hit

Why Have a Blog?

Honestly? Because I need the distraction. But that oversimplifies my true motivation behind this project. There’s much more to it.