Twitter??

OK, I finally gave in and decided to play with yet another social networking site today. Just created a twitter account. Now the trick will be to actually update it in a timely fashion (just like this blog - yeah, right!). Anyway, we'll see how it goes.

New Toy!

I went out today and bought a new toy/gadget. It's a Nikon D40X digital SLR camera.

A friend of ours was over this weekend and we started talking about photography. He was showing me his Nikon camera and the great pictures it takes. Now I had been contemplating purchasing a new camera for several months, but hadn't focused on it as a top priority. Well after seeing the results of our friends camera and the wonderful conversation around the hobby, I decided there wasn't going to be a better time to take it up myself. So after several hours of research Sunday, I headed out and picked up my new camera.

I have to say that after playing with it for several hours today I am absolutely thrilled with what this camera can do (not that I've even scratched the surface of exploiting all of its rich features).



Of course there's the obligatory flower shot to start things off...






I look forward to experimenting with it more and posting some of my results in this blog and others that I author.

Stay tuned!

Tech Talk #004

My father-in-law forwarded me an interesting video clip on some new technology that Microsoft is developing. It's called Microsoft Surface and it's a new way to interact with technology. Basically, with Surface you can "grab" data with your hands and move information between objects (like digital cameras, cell phone, laptops, etc.) with natural gestures and touch. It's actually pretty cool. If you've got a few minutes, give it a look!

House Update 7/22/04

Well we signed the contract and made the deposit.  If all goes well, the excavation will being within a week or two.  It's always exhilarating to go into debt :)

I will attempt to get some pictures of the progress as we move along the 26 week build schedule.

Now I get to focus on designing and building my home automation vision for the house.  Not sure what it will evolve into, but it will be cool!  I'm thinking about integrating the JDS Stargate system which seems like a really cool product.  

I just want the house done so I can start messing with the technology :)