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euro trip photos

photo roundup time!

while i was in london last week, i fortunately found myself with one evening free. coincidentally, it happened to be the same night the London OpenSolaris User Group was meeting… so i dropped by and took some photos. it was great to see nick again, and to finally meet peter tribble.

this past weekend, i went to FOSDEM and ended up taking a few photos there as well. predominantly they are from the Mozilla DevRoom, with the exception of a few from the OpenSolaris booth, and a few from Mark Finkle’s talk (Mark is big-time and got a talk in the main track with a huge room separate from the DevRoom ;-))

and on wednesday evening, Songbird hosted a get-together/social, which i lazily called MozzyBirdyXULy Type Meetup Social Thing, where i took more photos. some of them are from the Nest during the day, but most are from the evening social where we had folks from Mozilla, Songbird, Flickr, Wesabe, and Flock (did i miss anyone?).

Add comment February 29th, 2008

only slightly stoned

sara pointed me at the photos joerg took from the OpenSolaris developer summit last weekend.

(click for the larger view)

more explicitly, she pointed me at the above picture. love how everyone is looking straight at the camera smiling happily while i goofily am looking off to the side…

lovely.

i should make a hackergotchi out of that.

2 comments October 19th, 2007

blog theme change…

it’s about that time again…

i decided to change my theme. no good reason. i just got bored of my old one.

i took the “sweet blossoms” theme, and did some graphics/colour/theme work to it to get it just right. added a tag cloud, my photo roll, and that’s about it. i like the clean geometric look.

(the photo is here, and is a photo i took while waiting at Hong Kong airport)

3 comments August 15th, 2007

OSCON 2007 wrapup

Wow, last week at OSCON was a blur. Between booth duty, the Sun party, and all the talking to people, I was thoroughly exhausted. I spent most of the weekend recovering from sleep deprivation.

anyway, all my photos are up. we had a great time, talked to a ton of people, and learned many important life lessons. one of which is:

Rearranging the letters of OpenSolaris spells ‘penis’.

opensolaris spells penis

3 comments July 30th, 2007

photos, photos, photos

i’m finally getting around to uploading the mass of photos i’ve had waiting on multiple memory cards.

first off, photos from our wedding…. i uploaded the metric buttload (i’m sure that’s an SI unit, no?) of all our wedding photos to our album here. there are two subalbums which contain the thousands of photos our photographer took, but i also highlighted the ~120 i thought were the best in the main album

i’ve also uploaded the several hundred photos i took during our honeymoon split up into the various cities we visited. i still need to upload photos from taiwan, and our reception in Hualien. i’ll get to that soon, i promise.

last weekend, i went to the OpenSolaris picnic that ben and tamarah put on in Sunnyvale and took a few photos there, too.

and finally, i just uploaded some photos of our kitchen now that we’re all done remodeling. you can see what it looked like before here and here. and here’s what it looks like now!. we knocked out the wall separating the kitchen/living room and it opened up the space a lot.

1 comment June 24th, 2007

now that’s backwards-compatibility

zac told me about his dad’s old Nikon SLR from the 60’s, and on a whim jaime brought them over during lunch, and we tried them out. turns out they still fit perfectly into my brand new D80 digital SLR. these are some old manual-focus lenses, so they obviously don’t auto-focus, but they see to work fine.

the two lenses are a 80-200 f/4.5, which is pretty much a pure overlap with the 55-200 lens i already own - so not much to be gained there. but the other lens is the classic Nikon 50mm f/1.4 lens which i’ve been having a blast with all night. it takes some great portrait photos with some really shallow depth of field.

i’m debating whether or not to cancel the order for the 50mm f/1.8 AF i have at Amazon. i’ll play with this MF f1/4. for a few more days and decide - but so far…so good

3 comments January 5th, 2007

backlog of photos

i finally got around to uploading my backlog of photos…. so without further ado, here are the photos from our trips to phuket, kuala lumpur, and taiwan

my favourites? probably:

i also uploaded photos from last weekend’s ski trip to colorado, though all the photos are from when wendy and lucy went snowmobiling. it’s a good thing i didn’t bring a camera with me when vu and i went boarding - i would have crushed it in one of the many instances i found myself wrapped around a tree.

Add comment March 17th, 2006

engagement photos

wendy and i took engagement photos at a wedding studio here in taipei.

i think they turned out pretty good there are actually a couple of candid moments in there that looked great.

4 comments January 16th, 2006

weekend roundup

as jesse and dan have noted, we went backpacking in the Sierra’s this past weekend. specifically, we hiked a really cool trail that crossed from the Jennie Lake’s wilderness into King’s Canyon National Park. we basically hiked the trail mentioned here. dan brought out his digital SLR (nikon d100 i think), and we ended up taking tons of photos, including one that looks like i had peanut butter diarrhea.

anyway, it was an awesome hike. about 8 miles in, and 10 miles out (plus a random half mile here and there scrabbling up an incline, and taking a stroll around the lake). we camped at Lost Lake, which is about 1.7 miles past Seville Lake (mentioned in the trail guide above). it was absolutely stunning to pitch a campsite right next to a gorgeous lake on Labor Day weekend and only have one other group camping around the lake.

Add comment September 8th, 2005

isis, hard at work

eric took a couple photos of Isis yesterday at our NUMA/Autobahn meeting. Given that we have so much work to do, and not enough engineers, Isis kindly volunteered to take on some work. After all… 1 dog-month = 7 people/programmer months!

1 comment July 21st, 2005