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Gone Cookin’

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

Dryfuss shows his smile.

Sorry for the recent inactivity here. After 3+ years of blogging about flying, crashing, the Slough of Despond, hats, Baylands, birds, gopher snakes, my misadventures and my friends, I slowed to stall speed.

Nowadays, I fly occasionally, mostly indoors with the members of Bay Area Micros, and I still keep in touch with a number of my flying buddies, but much of my energy is consumed by two major new interests:

  • Managing and participating in a new blog about sous vide cooking: http://svkitchen.com/.
  • Walking, playing with and learning about our new rescued greyhound, Dryfuss.

Thanks to all of you who joined the party. If you enjoy food, good photos and interesting writing, please visit us at SVKitchen.

And don’t count me out yet. I’m still fascinated by our ability to remotely control tiny flying machines, and I may one day pick this site back up like I never left.

Look Here for New Photos

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Frank D’s V-22 Osprey rests on a picnic table after a successful flight.

Frank D’s V-22 Osprey rests on a picnic table after a successful flight.

Starting in September, I’ll stop updating the Photos section.

Instead, I’ll publish photos here on the Home page, as fresh blog entries.

The result will be more frequent blog entries, with a little less work for me.

This is possible because WordPress, the software on which this blog is based, now provides me with good built-in photo publishing tools for individual photos and for galleries.

More Photos! Better Photos!

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Tom Launches his Executive Jet

I’ve been shooting more pictures.

Last month saw more than 160 new pictures in the Photos section, which is nearing 1,000 photos in all. This month I’m on a clip to top 100 new photos.

I hope to maintain this rate. It’s easier now that we’ve hit better weather.

The pictures are getting better, too.

I’m shooting in RAW mode, which provides more latitude for adjustments, and I’m editing the photos with Apple’s Aperture software, which delivers great results. I also use Photoshop, which lets me use even more tools.

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The New Look

Friday, July 6th, 2007

Old Ups & Downs

Ups & Downs got a makeover.

The original version, created in iWeb, was attractive and easy to use.

But its commenting system was annoying. The software wouldn’t notify me when comments were posted and I couldn’t edit the comments: I could either approve them or delete them.

Not that I’m into editing comments, but once or twice I heard from the author of a comment who wanted to fix a typo and I couldn’t.

I also wanted more control over the look & feel of the website. Now I have limitless power. :-)

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