Hugh’s weak spot, bar none. I don’t know what it is about that area under his chin, but his eyes glaze over when I scratch him there. This scritch is for Kevin in Northern California, a fellow cat lover who also shares my love for Spain!
ADDITION: Oh, I nearly forgot the original reason for why [...]

I’ve been trying to sort through my photo collections to see if I can find two or three I can donate to a cancer fundraising event called Picture the Cure here in Toronto in August. The deadline for submissions is looming, but I’m finding my main problem is that I haven’t taken digital photos in [...]

It was a cold and rainy evening in Toronto. The kind of night where the sensible people stay home, and the rest of us don a hat and put fresh batteries in the camera.
More shots from the evening:

Interestingness1 by thelastminute
I don’t remember how I first came across Duncan Rawlinson’s site www.thelastminuteblog.com (I first linked to him back in September 2004), but he’s been videoblogging lately and put together this movie of Flickr photography that made it to the ‘interestingness’ pages. Except for a glut of self-promotional mistagging in the middle, most of [...]

I don’t think my brother reads my website, but seeing as I live practically on the other side of the country now, this will be my virtual public birthday e-card to him (lasts longer than an e-card, too!).
It all started with those chipmunk cheeks:

Alvin, 3
Alvin was the only one in my family who was born [...]

That’s the sound of me manipulating lines of code as I bring to you a couple of bright and shiny new pages, hot off the online publishing press. (English idioms are nonsense, aren’t they?) They’re available for clicking at the navigation bar above.
Archives
Not just any old archive system, this uses ELA — Extended Live Archives [...]

london cycling by kevin meredith
I was perusing one of the Flickr groups I started, The Adventures of Kermit, and serendipitously came across the profile of one of the members, Kevin Meredith. His profile looked vaguely familiar, so I glanced over his amazing photostream and saw this photo. If you’re a longtime Flickr member, you’ll notice [...]

I’ve had sketchy service from Youtube.com lately, and I’ve been trying out other services, such as Google Video and Blip. For comparative purposes, here’s a video of Lisa in the Netherlands playing her clarinet for me (after only four lessons!):

The remaining rescued photos from the archives of that evening. The lighting conditions were poor, so I fiddled with channels and made a sepia diptych.

John Watson of Flagrantdisregard.com has started a new website on photography techniques called Photodoto.com. There is also a Photodoto.com discussion group on Flickr. Check it out!