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Still working on Galleries…

charleen — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:55:26 +0000

But now I’ve got a real one to work with! It doesn’t work AT ALL like I think it should, but it is a start.

Gardens and Exterior Shots – Winchester Mystery House

I’ll be sure to let you know when I get it to where I want it to be…

This gallery is a little different in that it is also published in it’s entirety on my flickr account; the rest of my pictures will have a full gallery here and a few select shots on flickr.

(BTW – the Flickr acct isn’t finished b/c I was getting errors with the uploader, but that should be fixed soon)

Be expecting a good deal of photos in the coming weeks as I am now 11 months behind in posting and want to catch up. Also, please let me know what you think of the shots. If you hate them, say so – I will not get to be a better photographer if I only have my feedback to work with.

I will say, I think this crimson poppy is a real standout in this set; Matt and I picked the perfect time to go to the Winchester Mystery House…

Red Poppy

For the photographer that has everything…

charleen — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:23:07 +0000

I was listening to the This Week in Photography podcast (link is to the show notes), and they mentionted this application for the iPhone that helps you with depth of field. It’s called Dr DOF and the guys were just raving about it – check it out here.

So this is for my darling Matt, who inspires me every day with his talent, but I was also thinking of Uncle Chris and Jason. Please pass this on to other photo nuts that you know or who inspire you with their work; Donncha, you are of course considered to be in the that list, but I don’t know if you have an iPhone?!?

For those of you that don’t know Donncha, he’s one of the two people that read my blog from the start, so check out his blog. I would suggest considering it to be NSFW for the next couple of days until the naked Brian Cowan paintings age a bit – I heard that story on BBC daily news podcast, and laughed for hours at the new gallery pieces, then fumed about the gagging of the RTE.

Update: apparently, when you type in the name of the phone that’s made by Apple, Akismet then starts catching 2 spam per every ten minutes. This is amazing, I have never had anything like this happen before.

I know I haven’t been around lately…

charleen — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:55:38 +0000

Sorry guys! I’ve been going absolutely insane with school. Here’s an early birthday present for me though, my brother is on the front of the business section of the San Francisco Chronicle

And, no I haven’t finished posting my pictures from my last visit to San Francisco onto flickr. I hope to get them up before a year has passed. Have a good week, everyone, and I’ll talk to you soon

My brother is on the cover of Linux Journal

charleen — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:05:30 +0000

Here’s where you can find my darling Matt….

note: you will need to register to read the actual article

update: Glenda B. says that the issue doesn’t hit the newsstands until 6/17/8

Hat tip: Mom

Trying out Vista

charleen — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:04:24 +0000

I’m trying out Vista now, I’m enjoying it thus far, but I know that I’m not using it to it’s full capacity yet. I had expected it to be a lot more difficult than it has been thus far.

My brother, in setting up Firefox, set it with three tabs as the home page: Photomatt, my blog, and the WordPress home page. Do you think that he may be sending me a hint?

More congratulations for Automattic and others…

charleen — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:06:52 +0000

Ok, just catching up to the Crunchies – I know, I know, it’s a week late.

Many congratulations to Automattic and Toni Schneider for the Crunchies that they won! I believe they deserve every accolade that the world wants to give them, but I might be biased…(then again, maybe not)

I was not surprised to see many of the services that I use constantly (congratulations to Twitter, Digg, Facebook, Kongregate, etc.) but I was really thrilled to hear about Meebo. I love this site, and have been using it daily for months. I haven’t had a single complaint about it, which is more than I could say for my beloved BlackBerry; it certainly has seamlessly kept me in contact with all my friends and family – and in style too! Congratulations, guys!

I would also like to thank Glenda, who’s running Twitter commentary and photos that made me feel like I was right there!

Congratulations to Automattic…

charleen — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:12:19 +0000

and to my brother, Matt, and all the other members of the company for all the hard work that has led you here. I went out and bought all the papers this morning and they’re now hanging on my cubicle (I’ll have to buy other copies for the house)

We’re so proud of you, and hope that this allows you to follow your dreams for WordPress!!

p.s. How long will the links to Photomatt work? Do I have to go back and change them????

p.p.s. Hi Donncha! I hope you’re enjoying Arizona – don’t freeze, and tell everyone hello for me!

Day 13 – nothing going on, but no time to do it in

charleen — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:45:55 +0000

I feel like I’ve been running ragged all day, but have gotten very little done.

Truthfully, I’ve gotten a lot done. I went to work @ my Saturday job. Then I went to the coffee shop twice, stopped by Jade’s work, picked up a friend @ the house, and ate lunch. After that, it was off to the regular job for a few minutes, then off to pick up Jade’s birthday cake. Finally, I got to go home for a few minutes, before heading on out to dinner @ the Greek Pita House in Pflugerville.

Now I get to relax finally, secure in the knowledge that I have only one day more of this blogging every day Love you, Matt!!!

I just hate having to do this when I have nothing to say. However I’ve enjoyed the exercise; I don’t want y’all to think that I’m bitter about this.

Anyway, have a big day again tomorrow, so I’ll let you know what what’s going on. Talk to you soon!!

Day 12 – Blatant misuse of a whiteboard

charleen — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:07:03 +0000

So I wrote this on my work white board, took a picture with my BB and promptly forgot about it.

Everyone was asking me how Matt’s birthday was, and I was wondering how they knew…so much for trying to transcend the ditzy blonde stereotype…

Say What? Day 11

charleen — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:10:15 +0000

I only have to remember to do this for 3 more days. Not that I mind chatting with you guys, but I can barely remember to but one foot in front of the other with any semblance of grace, much less to write a coherent post every day before midnight. (especially while trying to watch 24)

That being said, I had a very busy, if very uneventful day. I spent a lot of time coordinating the moving of various parts of my office and cleaning adhesive off of windows, desks and overhead cabinets. It all became super fun when the adhesive remover started melting the plastic knife that I was using.

I am looking forward to this weekend though, as I get to see some folks that I haven’t gotten to see in a while. Also, it’s Jade’s birthday party, so I get to give him his presents. I really love watching people open presents that I’ve picked up for them. I have a lot of fun picking things out for my friends and family, so it’s kind of like another present to me when they open them.

I’m only sorry that I wasn’t there where Matt opened his birthday presents this year. Mom said that she talked to him for a good while today (or yesterday?) and he said that he was really exited about them. I only got a quick IM conversation with him in which he was telling me how much he enjoyed them. Poor guy had to run directly to a meetup directly after I talked to him, so we didn’t get to chat for very long.

Well, I’m going to go go and turn my attention to the show again. I don’t want to miss Jack kick all these people’s asses…

Oh wait! I forgot to tell you that I saw a funny away message today: “When Jack Bauer files his taxes, he has to claim the whole world as dependents” Have a good one!!! XXOOXX