a few hours ago several people were killed in a shooting at the post office less than half a mile from our home. it was strange to walk through the throng of news crews who were rushing around, business as normal. here are a some photos... la times article...

today the girls took full advantage of the fact that the recent rains have brought lots of puddles to tromp in. here are some photos of the fun...

well, it's a little late but here are photos from thanksgiving 2005... dan and the hoffmanns came into town making for a fun few days.

i just ran a quick benchmark on the new server 🙂 i fed 52 images to a script i use to resize, crop and rotate images for phpslideshow. the old server took 3min 55.819s the new server completed the task in 1min 13.952s sweeet!

we have finally made the move to the new server! almost everything migrated over smoothly, yay plesk. thanks to everyone who donated parts and $$ to the project! if you host your site on this machine, please check that everything is as it should be...

this morning (saturday) kim and the kids headed down to hang out with the hoffmanns so that i could have some peace and quiet. and remodel the bathroom... here are photos from: day#1, day#2, day#3, day#4, day#5, day#6&7

take a look at this cool phpslideshow template that chris mundell is using... ps happy birthday chris.

mike and julie robinson rocked the 5K at today's santa barbara half marathon. mike came second in his age group and julie took first in hers! way to go guys!

the world is a better place since another lawler (made by a & d) alit here this weekend! his name is chase and he is bloody cute, cheggit out...

the hoff-people hosted a little party to celebrate caz and dave's new life together... here are some photos and a semi related video of the trip down to dana point... [flv:roadtrip_reflections.flv 400 300] [music by the springbok nude girls]

you need to hurry along to lilly's tacos on chapala for what may be the best tacos on earth. they make one thing: tacos. you can fill your taco with beef, marinated pork, head, cheek, lip, tongue, eye or steamed beef. here are some images from this morning's walkabout...

so 9 years ago, i married this cute young chick. today she gave me an ipod nano. those 9 years really paid off!

we are one giant leap closer to upgrading zulu, the server that zinkwazi, photothursday, codejanitor and about 21 other domains live on. someone (thanks!) donated a dell poweredge 2650 dual 2.6ghz xeon server! the catch? it needs ram and 3 more hard drives to complete...

here is a list of things that have made me happy this week (and it's only tuesday!) breakfast with my wife (and kids) to celebrate her birthday. received a copy of the movie paris, texas (mind blowing aesthetics) sold 3 of my images (thanks matt steele!) which allowed...

i modified my holga a bit so that i could run 35mm film through it. the effect is cool as the image bleeds across the sprocket holes... i even managed to get a pretty decent panorama shot. here are some of the images that i've scanned from the first 2 rolls. you can...

scott from waypointcorvallis.com sent me some stuff from my amazon wishlist! thanks buddy, you rock! (note: for anyone planning to order the segway for me, be aware that i'll let you use it at any time 😉

matt steele celebrated another journey around the sun, here are some photos from the par-tay...

trevor just alerted me to the fact that i got a noteworthy over at photofriday.com for my candid entry... stoked!

while we were in newport beach, i snapped the 10,000th image with the nikon d70 since i started using it in mid february!