Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 days 10 hours ago.
First, some background.
Last week I received the final pieces of my backup strategy, a pair of 500 GB hard drives that I will be rotating periodically to some undisclosed location that isn’t my house. Right now, my fileserver makes backups and stic...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 days 11 hours ago.
Today I had lunch at a restaurant I have never eaten at before - The Feed Store, in downtown Springfield. Was it good Meh. The sandwhich I had wasn’t anything that I couldn’t make at home, I’ll leave it at that.
What did turn me off w...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 1 week 11 hours ago.
He’s 11 months old today, kinda crazy. The rest can be seen in the gallery.Quick little story about the backdrop. I had grand plans of it looking a lot better/different than this. I started last night first dying the muslin solid yellow. Then I...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 1 week 4 days ago.
A couple of months ago I purchased a Terk XM6 XM Radio Antenna because the reception I have been getting in the office has been poor and unpredictable. Due to some procrastination, the new antenna has been sitting in its packaging waiting to be installe...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 weeks 3 days ago.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to make it to the Shoo-sponsored blogger Photowalk in Washington Park on Saturday, although it sounded like a lot of fun. Maybe next time
However, this afternoon I was able to sneak out for a few minutes to capture a b...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 weeks 5 days ago.
Ana made David’s costume, and did a great job. I present to you the Halloween Hippo! We’re hoping to get the most out of the costume, so don’t be alarmed if you hear about a Hippo being found out on the town.No candy for this little gu...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 weeks 6 days ago.
Today after work we went out to a lake park to enjoy the weather, the colors, and to take some photos (of course!). It’s very hard to believe that it’s already the end of October, isn’t it
Anyway, today was the first time I’ve mad...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 4 weeks 11 hours ago.
Leaving development tools aside (ahem, Visual Studio, ahem), what are your favorite software titles You know, the ones you use daily, are truly useful, you couldn’t live without, and are just plain fun. Here are mine, in no particular order:Micro...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 4 weeks 13 hours ago.
Adobe releaed the much awaited 2.1 update to Lightroom this evening. I’ve been using version 2 for a couple months now, and found it to be head and shoulders above version 1.x. There were definitely performance problems, but once I made a few perf...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 1 month ago.
Springfield had fantastic weather today, so we decided to head to a park. The leaves are turning and the air is nice and crisp. Gotta love it.After a while here, we headed to the zoo where David got to ride on a Hippo. More photos available.
Posted by The Johnson Blog 1 month ago.
Yesterday David turned a whopping 10 months old, so we had our montly photo shoot.As I’m transitioning to my new photo gallery, I’m password protecting some areas. So, if you’d like to see the full collection - shoot me an email at ej@e...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 1 month ago.
David is mastering his walker (or whatever you call these things) and is all over the place now in it. Here are a few clips of him gliding through the kitchen. You’ll notice this thing has a predisposition for turning left - I took a look at it a...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 1 month ago.
And before we knew it, it was October!
David was outside for a while this evening enjoying the cool weather and the great sunset light (ok, that last part was me).
Look, he sees his shadow! Does that extend summer
Posted by The Johnson Blog 1 month ago.
Ever since we moved into our house I’ve driven right by a nice spot that has begging me to just get out of bed early with a camera to see what I could capture. The past couple weeks have brought these calls even louder, with the great sunrises and...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 1 month ago.
David likes to play “catch” and LOVES his Hippo book:
Posted by The Johnson Blog 1 month ago.
Since installing version 2.0 of Lightroom, I’ve been ignoring the new export option for Output Sharpening. It has been sitting there on the screen but I’ve always been in too much of a hurry to try it out and see the results.
Over the weekend...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 1 month ago.
I heard about these yesterday, a new media format some of the big labels are trying to push now. It’s a microSD card “loaded” with an album. Give me a break!
What morons thought this was going to sell Apparently some major record lab...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 1 month ago.
I’ve got a couple of little stories today, about some cats on attack!A couple days ago we had the house opened up to enjoy the beautiful weather. It was roughly 11:30pm, and I was sitting here at my desk working on the computer. Ana and David were...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 1 month ago.
Well it has been good, Summer 2008. In honor of your passing, I’m firing up the grill for one last summer-Sunday grilling.
And with that, my favorite season of the year begins tomorrow!
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