Archive for April, 2006

Portland Menu Guide

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

Hooray! The new super glossy and hip Portland Menu Guide was recently published and some of my photos were used! Both Argyle Winery and Zeppo restaurant are listed in the Menu Guide as one of a couple dozen top, top places to go. How fun!

iWork is Awesome!

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

I recently started using Apple's iWork set of programs for designing brochures, flyers and other fun things. Without a doubt, iWork is awesome! It makes creating and editing marketing pieces fun! Today I made two newsletters for Argyle announcing their new pinot noir. So nice! ...

T Minus 14 Days!

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

Hey, friends and family! Only 14 days left till Codi and I get married! Codi and I went to the Portland Rose Gardens to see if there were any roses in bloom. There weren't even any buds on the rose bushes. Oops. Maybe by the ...

7,200

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

Wowow - did I ever do a lot of flying this week! I flew from Portland to Tampa on Tuesday to visit my grandmother. On Wednesday morning, she and I flew back to the SFO bay area. About an hour after the bay area arrival, I took ...

Medic!

Friday, April 14th, 2006

I was working intently on my iMac late last night when there was a knock on the door. I immediately sensed danger. I opened the door to see my neighbor bleeding heavily from his hand. The blood was running thickly down his arm and he was holding ...

Quick Fun with Exposure Times

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

Both photos are of champagne bottles stacked high in a warehouse. The first photo was from a 1/3 second exposure (low light). I like the circular symmetry. When viewing this photo at full res, I can see myself in the reflection at the bottom of the bottle. ...

New Website - LeopardTamer.com

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

I have another website running as of this afternoon. LeopardTamer.com is a website that will cover rumored and confirmed data on Apple's late-2006 operating system, called OS X Leopard - v10.5. Leopard is expected to be a pretty revolutionary operating system, even compared to Apple's existing OS, Tiger. ...

It’s Official!!

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

This is a post for all our friends and family around the world... Codi and I are officially engaged as of April 8th!! We'll be married on May 8th!

Veni, Vidi, Vici, Repartitioni

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

Well, I did the trendy thing and installed Windows XP Pro on the Mac Mini (Intel Core Duo). It took about an hour to set everything up. Standard setup screens... Exactly the same XP user eXPerience... Proper recognition of processor and hardware (before driver-update)... Boot screen and how ...

Armageddon my Windows on my Mac

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

What's that? Armageddon? Apple officially says "yes" to Windows on Mac? This morning I woke to an email informing me that Apple may have cracked open one of the remaining seals ushering in an epic battle - an iMageddon, of sorts. The thought of running Windows ...