Meeting the Governor

Posted on June 24, 2007 by Craig

I spent Thursday and Friday of this past week working at the Florida Press Association/Florida Society of Newspaper Editors Convention heldÂ at the Sawgrass at Ponte Vedra Beach resort. Florida Governor Charlie Crist came to the convention on Friday at lunch time to give a speech, get an award, and sign a bill (but not to eat lunch with us). He loves to have his picture taken and had many taken while he worked the room prior to the speech. He saw me standing there (I was on the ready to get photos of him with my bosses as he approached their table) and came to me and chatted me up. Gary did the honors on this picture.

This is a great example of why you should always have a camera with you.

Ichetucknee Springs tubing photos

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Craig

Since, based on web traffic reporting, there’s so much interest in Ichetucknee Springs tubing (and why shouldn’t there be?), I thought I’d collect links to all my photos on the subject in one place.

July 23, 2005 with my Mom and my brother’s family.
July 30, 2005 with Dana (the most popular thing on this site).
August 19, 2006 with my cycling club group (we rode and ate before we tubed).

The first set of photos was taken with a Fuji waterproof disposable film camera with processing and scanning to cd-rom by a local lab. The latter two sets were taken with my old, reliable Canon PowerShot G1 inside an AquaPac case.

Update (12 Aug 2007): Links to new tubing photo sets.

Dusting off the local Flickr albums

Posted on June 8, 2007 by Craig

I wrote a while back about switching from the FAlbum plugin for displaying my Flickr albums locally. With the new template, some problems with the other one, and some improvements to FAlbum, I decided this evening to switch back to FAlbum. I hope this weekend to tweak things so they better fit in the template. Enjoy!

Friday morning ‘toons

Posted on June 8, 2007 by Craig

Too funny to not post here first thing:

The new look, what do you think?

Posted on June 7, 2007 by Craig

I’ve been meaning for weeks to switch the template of this site to DePo Clean theme by Derek Powazek. So now I’ve gone and done it. It needed a little more tweaking than I thought it might, but I’m getting figured out. I don’t know yet what I’m going to put in that right column.

Most Popular Posts: May 2007

Posted on June 3, 2007 by Craig

According to SlimStat, the top five most-viewed posts here during May were:

Looks familiar.

I noticed quite a bit of traffic last month in the old photo galleries. Some popular things there are:

I need to find time to (a) finish off a new template I’m working on and (b) get Flickr-to-WordpressÂ plugin going good so I can see if I see more Flickr photo traffic through here.

My childhood – The Google Maps Street View tour

Posted on June 2, 2007 by Craig

There’s been a lot of talk this week about Google Maps and its new Street View feature. After discovering that my hometown of Miami was covered and tossing some links around with my brother Andy, I thought I’d give my readers here a virtual tour of my childhood.

The street I grew up on. We lived in the second house on the left. There used to be more trees.
Shorty’s BBQ. Still about the same.
St. Thomas Episcopal Church. The steeple is the same, everything else is heavily remodeled.
Coconut Grove Sailing Club. It’s been rebuilt since we were active there.
The Miami Herald building, where Dad worked.
The Orange Bowl.
Dr. Gage’s old office, where Mom worked when I was very young.
The dentist’s office. The shortest building in the middle.
The church where our Boy Scout troop met.

Well, I think that about has things covered, at least to the limits of Google’s current imagery.

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