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After losing two hard drives in rapid succession, I figured it was time to start giving some serious thought to my backup plan. I have been rsyncing my documents, pictures, and active projects folders to my local Debian server for a while now so neither drive loss was that critical, but it drove home the fact that while I like to think my systems are bulletproof, there's no such thing.

Apparently, Queensryche has a new album out...of nothing but covers...:)

I've been on a black and white photography kick lately. I don't know what triggered it, but I can't get enough of well-done monochrome photos. I did this one tonight based on a photo I took of a Lilac shrub in my front yard.

I did quite a bit of manipulation in Photoshop to the original shot to get this output, but I think the results are worth it.

Been listening to this show this morning...gotta love mixing news and comedy! :) Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me

Every so often, you just have to pick up the camera to take a picture of something. This morning, it was the sky directly outside my front door. I'll let the picture speak for itself..

94 of them to be precise... :)

They are all in the Wedding Pics set, so it'll be easy to browse just the wedding photos.

EDIT: (09.10.07) - Added another 100+ pictures, made individual albums for each person who gave us pictures, and added each individual set to the Wedding Photos collection.

Mr. & Mrs. Keith Solomon! :) I'll write more later, but I wanted to get a picture up so people could see it... :)

Wow...of all the times to be caught not being independently wealthy! :)

1938 German Enigma Machine

For those who don't know, the Enigma machine was a cipher machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages by Nazi Germany before and during World War II.

What would you do with something like this?

So it's been a while since I posted anything about my goal to drop 30 pounds before my wedding. Well, at this point, it doesn't look like it's going to happen. It seems I've hit a plateau at 263 pounds (I've been here for the better part of a month at this point).