Bad Blogger

NOTE: I just updated one of the links in the message, this is actually about a year old.

I've been a very busy busy boy, getting up to speed with two versions of Drupal (5.7 & 6.2) at ZapWorld, and moving to new digs in Santa Rosa. I redid most of the front page at zapworld.com (among many other things), but I just finished the April (May?) newsletter, which allowed me to indulge my more (but not most) creative side. I did pretty much everything in a text editor (for those CSS purists, it should be noted that few, if any, email clients display divs correctly, so I had to do my layout with tables), but I also did the two prominant banners, for the header (pictured below, with a link to the full page) and the Zapino, an electric scooter modeled on the ever-stylish Vespa. For the header banner, I even used one of the photos I took last summer in Glen Ellen (as one or two of my dedicated reader will surely recall...).

Here are some grapevines taken at the foot of Sonoma Mountain. I absentmindedly left the ISO set to 1600 (I took some pictures of the moon the previous night). And through the magick of Fotochop, I came out with a photo that doesn't look entirely like crap.

Before:



Voila!



Ta daaaah!

Also, I've started a new album in the 365 photo group. Let's see if I can keep this up!

...but if you absolutely MUST post about Elliot Spitzer, this would be an appropriate forum:

First: I was a Bad Blogger, because I had no idea what I wanted to do when some unsuspecting sucker offered me a free forum for my deranged musings...

Second: Some entirely irresponsible adult offered me a megapixel digital camera for less than I would spend in a day on heroin & Ramen noodles, and I became a Bad Photographer...

Finally: I acquire an utter lack of facility in developing javascript applications, and now I am announcing my latest reinvention of myself in creating...

Bad Virtual Reality!!!

Take a looksee, and see what happens when you allow people like me to have access to computers!



(believe it or not, it was actually much worse until I did a little cropping to remove... well...



something like this (yes, that is a car materializing out of a fold in the space-time continuum(sp?))...)