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Like many skills, having a “creative eye” for photography requires practice. There are many different ways to stretch your brain and sharpen your skills, and one of my favorites is to very consciously and very deliberately look around you and see things. Notice the shadow from your glass of ice tea, how the light comes through the trees in your back yard, the graininess of the bench outside your office, or the composition of people sitting in the room around you. I have a reminder programmed into my phone to randomly prompt me to take an interesting picture of something in the next two minutes. The combination of a very short deadline and a random environment can make for some interesting photos. This was today’s. It is a section of board on the enclosure for a garbage dumpster behind a grocery store I pass on my way to work. I only had two minutes, so I pulled over and started looking. Have you ever tried something like this? What do you do to develop your “eye”?

This, obviously, doesn’t apply to me.  *Everything* I email out is funny.  Really… it is.

Congress, in it’s wisdom, has changed daylight savings time. If you run Windows you’ll have to update your clock. Here is a link to the Microsoft tool I just used to update mine: LINKWant a clean desk, free from unsightly cables, routers, and external drives? Try this trick: LINK

Like to buy stuff cheap? Especially electronics? Use Firefox? Check out this wootness: LINK

This, although tangetially photo related, is just freakin’ cool: LINK

This is for the dog lovers… we’ll be buying one for our puppies this weekend: LINK

We’ve all lost data to hard drive failure (if you haven’t…. ~he he he~ then you’re overdue). This was interesting, from Google, and sheds some light on hard drive death: LINK

Last, but not least, is the Dilbert Blog. Scott Adams is insanely smart, and cranks out all kinds of thoughts via this blog. If I can visit only one site a day, other than Flickr, this would be it: LINK

The website MyHeritage.com has you upload a picture of yourself, they uses dark magic to determine which celebrities you most resemble.  All I can say is that your expression makes all the difference in the world.  Apparently, I’ve got some celebrity heritage issues… (more comparisons after the link)

I’m trying a new voicemail service, which is free while it’s still in beta, called YouMail.  It allows for a great deal of flexibility in how you use your voicemail, including remote retrieval, customized greetings based on the caller, and saving your voicemail messages to your computer.  So if you call me and get my voicemail, don’t be surprised if you get a personal greeting.