Oppressively hot

We finally got packed up and moved out of AL last week. This pic was shot from the front porch at my in-law's house one day when we weren't packing. 98 degrees!!

iGoogle ate my homepage

My personalized Google home page just reverted to defaults with an old zip code from Birmingham, AL and in the process lost all of my additional tabs, rss feeds, bookmarks, etc. Everything except for my gMail and some old stocks that I used to watch. This was probably 40 regularly used bookmarks and a dozen or so RSS Feeds from bloggers I watch and friends who bookmark using del.icio.us regularly. Not good. I have faith that Google will fix the problem and I'm sure they know what used to be on my page. The logo and new name for the Google personalized homepage changed to iGoogle last night.

Canton Repository Building HDR Photo

I'm still trying to figure out this HDR photo process. Here is a shot of the front of the Canton Repository in Canton, Ohio. Howard and I drove over for a visit on Tuesday and the light was really nice when we arrived. I had my tripod in the car so I figured I'd try the process where PhotoMatrix combines multiple exposures. Maybe I'm not picking the right scenes to get the extreme effects I see on pics tagged with HDR on Flickr. On the other hand, this is about what the building looked like in real life. The other thing I think will help is a cable release because at these long shutter speeds using a high ISO, I'm sure camera shake is still happening when pushing the shutter release, even on the tripod. Stay tuned...

Rumor has it that there a gold Pulitzer medal, won for coverage of a crime scene a year earlier, embedded in the cornerstone that was placed in 1927 for the Canton Daily News, the first paper to work out of the building.

View from my office window

I went sailing today

Went sailing today, originally uploaded by sailorbill.

Took my RC Laser out for a sail today on the Erie Canal behind the house here in Fairport, NY. The water is not all the way back to normal summer height, but it has been full enough to sail this winter when there was no ice on the top. Not much wind today.

26.2 miles in London

My parents are in London so that my dad can run the London Marathon this weekened, continuing his quest to run the world's top 5 marathons.

My dad ran Boston (#5) last year, missing the rainy day there last weekend. London is (#1) this weekend. The Berlin Marathon (#2) is in September and next year, New York (#3) and Chicago (#4).

Good luck!!!