Well the Hong Kong trip has come and gone, and I’m over my post-vacation-depression period enough to begin writing posts on the blog again. Some quick statistics:
Days in HK – 19
Pictures Taken – 3824 (average of 201 a day)
Pictures Uploaded – 520 (excludes a few family photos)
Pictures with GPS coordinates [...]
Posted in Normal on Jan 29th, 2009
The Nikon GP-1 is a GPS receiver that attaches straight to certain Nikon SLR cameras, and enables photographers to embed photo geotags (longitude and latitude data) onto pictures taken.
In the box is nothing too special – the receiver, cables to connect to the camera via 10-pin (D200, D300, D3 etc.) or the special accessory cable [...]
Posted in Photo on Sep 1st, 2008
Posted in Normal on Aug 11th, 2008
If I didn’t arrange this trip, I would definitely be in the doghouse. Michelle had been itching for some sort of vacation since summer started, and since I was away in Sarnia, it was a convenient time to spend a weekend in Toronto!
We stayed at Director Nick’s and Amber’s place in Oakville (most income per [...]
Michelle and I went to the Grand Opening of the Apple Store today! We arrived at about 7:15am and joined the other 14 people in line. The first guy was already there at 10am on Friday, and there were lots of people from the night before and even a guy from Calgary! The whole experience [...]
Well, I’ve been in Toronto all this week, having a ball learning some new statistics programming things (seriously, this stuff makes me happy), and also trekking about Toronto without a tour guide.
Toronto is nice, although it always feels warmer than you think it is, or significantly colder. Calgary just feels cold all the time! While [...]
On Monday, I put together a nice cure mix, put it on some raw salmon, and threw it into the fridge for a few days. Three days later, I pulled it out, and cured salmon, better known as gravlax, is the result!
Its not bad. I clearly abused the amount of salt I needed, resulting in [...]