http://www.podq.com Personal site and portfolio of Joshua Lyman Sat, 10 May 2008 19:28:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thank you thank you to all who have found and used the Travelogue Theme for WordPress over the past couple years. I was elated to find that it has been ported to several other systems as well, and occasionally run across a site using it, which really makes me giddy! I ... http://www.podq.com/2008/05/08/travelogue-to-soon-be-resurrected/ Good evening world! Yes, I am back. I have recently returned from my two-year mission for my church in the south of France. And it was incredible. What can I say, is there a single thing better in the world than being blessed to serve with all of your heart, might, ... http://www.podq.com/2008/03/29/im-back/ A new version of Travelogue (2.0) is being designed right here live, right in front of your very eyes! Yes, daring, isn't it? :-) So if you like or hate anything, or have any suggestions, leave it in the comments! It will be done by the time the week is ... http://www.podq.com/2006/02/05/quick-and-near-final-update/ Well, of course, when are they not? But what is up with this recent progression of our favorite Google image? Today's most recent image stands at this: You can see all of them by either clicking on the image on Google's homepage, or by seeing Google's history of it. Now ... http://www.podq.com/2005/12/25/is-google-up-to-something/ O yes, let everyone have joy and a very Merry Christmas today! Find happiness and share it with others, and please, let us not forget the true reason for Christmas! Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. http://www.podq.com/2005/12/25/merry-christmas-2005/ For the longest time, I have wanted to explore a facet of photography that I've always found fascinating: eyes. Of course, there is always the trite but true: Eyes are the window to the soul. Yet there is so much more that can be explored here. Eyes, for the most part, portray ... http://www.podq.com/2005/10/30/new-photo-adventure-eyes/ I was impressed by one of my friends, Paige Ellsworth from Texas, this evening as she showed me her portfolio. She has never taken a photo class, but has done a great job with her point-and-shootish Canon Powershot. Just check out this dock picture, and you'll see what I ... http://www.podq.com/2005/10/24/paige-ellsworths-work/ If TUAW is right, and Apple's "One More Thing..." event is not a video iPod happy day, why would they waste so much fanfare on an apology? What if they then introduced their own phone, that works? Just wanted to propose it before the facts rolled in! http://www.podq.com/2005/10/12/apple-phone/ Tomorrow is the beginning of General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints! And what do you know, but I totally scored tickets from a charitable soul in my ward who had many extra. So my roommates and I grabbed 4, and we're going to drive on ... http://www.podq.com/2005/10/01/tb-and-general-conference/ Ah the beauty of Trackbacks. I received one from a blog called 101 Things in 1001 Days, which appears to be a blog written by Jennifer Seymour, whereon she documents the 101 things that she wants to do.The first on her list is, of course, to create a blog. Her list ... http://www.podq.com/2005/09/13/accomplishing-something-101-things-blog/ The District of Columbia police auctioned off about 100 unclaimed bicycles Friday. "One dollar," said an 11-year-old boy as the bidding opened on the first bike. The bidding, however, went much higher. "One dollar," the boy repeated hopefully each time another bike came up. The auctioneer, who had been auctioning stolen ... http://www.podq.com/2005/09/09/gratitude/ O ya, just because I forgot to mention it, I'm in college now! ;-) I'm at the absolutely wonderful Brigham Young University, and loving it! For more updates, check out my other site, Prospectus Y. http://www.podq.com/2005/08/28/sometimes-life-changes/ ie7_acid2 Originally uploaded by ljoshua. My first check in IE7 Beta 1, after viewing my own sites of course, was to see just how well it did with the Acid2 Test from WaSP. Well, check it out for yourself. Doesn't look like ... http://www.podq.com/2005/07/28/ie7-and-the-acid2-test/ Buzzzzzz buzzzzz chatterchatterchatter Speeeeeecccculaaaation buzz buzzzzz buzzzzz.... Can you hear that? That is the ambient sound of the World Wide Web Buzz Generator, kicked into high gear with the two words "video" and "iPod" flying like fire off of the tip of the tongues of every analyst in the industry. ... http://www.podq.com/2005/07/21/video-ipod-stipulatin-examination/ By now I should have implemented asides here, as I have with Prospectus Y, but I haven't, so this is a full post. For your daily dose of giggles and reality: 40 Things That Only Happen In Movies Rather comprehensive, though I was suprised not to find anything on stormy weather or ... http://www.podq.com/2005/07/20/40-things-that-only-happen-in-movies/ Created as an entry for 43places.com. Of all of places in God’s nature, Switzerland has got to be the most beautiful of all. Amazing mountain landscapes and lush blooming pastures, this country must be on the top of everyone’s to-go list. During the winter you can often gondolla rides to the ... http://www.podq.com/2005/06/29/most-beautiful-country-on-earth/ Created as an entry for 43places.com. Ah, la belle vie! I lived in Waterloo for almost 4 years, and can say that in my international travels, is one of my (if not the) most favorite locale anywhere. From tourism to hospitality, Waterloo has it all! Don’t miss any of the great historical ... http://www.podq.com/2005/06/29/waterloo-rocks/ Typically once a film is over, you are immediately left with an impression, or an understanding of the movie's overall theme. If it is done well, you will even understand the tone of the movie. However, rarely do I see a film (or rarely does one exist) where you have ... http://www.podq.com/2005/06/22/saints-and-soldiers-amazing/ This Chess Java Applet not only allows you to play and get beaten by a computer in the usual fashion, but it also shows every thought the computer is having as to where to move, and displays it in a beautiful fashion of green and orange lines. Influence of pieces ... http://www.podq.com/2005/06/10/the-thinking-machine/ Update: Okay, maybe not... Check out Progressive Layouts. Maybe... Yes, I am sick and tired of designing/thinking about/viewing pages specifically designed to fit in a screen where less than 800 little pixels go marching across the screen. I cannot stand much more of this horizontally-centered, margin: 0 auto; make a nice ... http://www.podq.com/2005/06/04/screw-safety-1024-is-in/ Just going through the administrative motions (updating WordPress, going through referrall logs, etc.) and noticed just some odd things going on. You may or may not be interested in this, but hey, it's mostly for my own records anyway. Referrall logs can reveal some interesting sources, such ... http://www.podq.com/2005/05/30/quick-oddity-notes/ Now, perhaps this is just me. But after having lots of fun with Google Maps and looking at the stunning images from Microsoft's coming MSN Virtual Earth, I noticed something that I consider slightly interesting. Where are all the people? This is most noticeable on the sample images from MSN Virtual ... http://www.podq.com/2005/05/27/where-are-all-the-people/ There have been many requests on how to edit and insert a customized picture into the polaroid in my Travelogue theme. It does take a bit of Photoshop know-how, perhaps in the future I'll make it easier to do. That said, it really isn't all that difficult, just follow these ... http://www.podq.com/2005/05/20/editing-the-travelogue-polaroid/ I just realized that since switching hosts to TextDrive, I had lost my very last post about Travelogue and Safety, my two WordPress Themes. Well, there's the announcement! Travelogue and Safety folks! Travelogue is aimed at those that are using their blog as a, um, travelogue, but also works quite well ... http://www.podq.com/2005/05/01/travelogue-and-safety-themes-released/ The Question: What will be the differences between Windows XP and the ever-slipping Windows Longhorn? What will make me want to upgrade? Why will it be worth worth it? The Answer: I don't know. Let's review the basics. Windows 3.1, released Spring of 1992. Windows 95, released ... http://www.podq.com/2005/04/28/difference-between-longhorn-and-xp/ Got my wisdom teeth out yesterday at around 2:30. It was quite an easy operation, I was on laughing gas (which I absolutely love) so I knew everything that was going on, but didn't hurt one bit. I decided I wanted to keep track of the effects of the drugs, ... http://www.podq.com/2005/02/20/wisdom-teeth-operation/ While idling away my time at school (actually trying to fix a computer for Saints) I decided to browse through the treasure troves of eBay, looking for a Canon Elan 7ne (o please o please!) and other things. After my regular searches were done, I felt like peering into the ... http://www.podq.com/2005/02/09/monster-for-sale/ Whilst digging around my photo teacher's box of old photographic equipment, I happened across a funny looking camera. It had two lenses, odd knobs all over the place, and a large winder on one side. After exploring the camera for a little bit, I pulled at the top and voila ... http://www.podq.com/2005/02/08/foray-into-medium-format-photography/ Whilst filling out an application for college scholarships, one of the questions was to give a brief biographical description of yourself (300 words or less). "Not too shabby, I can talk about all of the different countries I've lived in," I thought. But how to start it... You just know ... http://www.podq.com/2005/01/31/ways-to-start-a-biography/ As you know, I was a Bloggie Awards Panelist for 2005, and after spending a few hours a day for a 3 days, I was able to finally come up with my five votes in each of the ten assigned categories. As a result of my labors, here are my ... http://www.podq.com/2005/01/24/bloggie-finalists-for-2005/ I am a few months away from graduating from high school, breaking out on my own, and starting to form my life as I begin college. Not many months after I start college, I will go to somewhere that I most likely have never been before to spend two years ... http://www.podq.com/2005/01/24/the-romantic-adventurer-in-me/ Our school, being the controlling body that it is, feels the need to notify parents of a student's absence, no matter what the class or how many times. A kind automated message is sent home so that your parents can take the appropriate grounding action. In my case, yesterday I ... http://www.podq.com/2005/01/21/im-a-criminal/ What a surprise! I have been selected as one of the 150 panelists that will decide the Weblog Awards for 2004! What a (random) honor! Not only do I get to feel important, but I also get to discover tons of new blogs that I have never seen before, at ... http://www.podq.com/2005/01/19/im-a-bloggie-panelist/ Pictures and video clips on the news give you an up-close view of the destruction caused by these terrible tsunamis, but for a much larger view on the amount change and destruction these catastrophies have caused, the following satellite images are simply the most revealing. Indian Ocean Tsunami Imagery - Aceh, ... http://www.podq.com/2005/01/04/indian-ocean-tsunami-imagery-aceh-sumatra-indonesia/ Try this game out... as long as you don't have any heart conditions, stress issues, multiple personalities, pyschotic tendencies, or are going to take a yoga class any time soon. Have fun! scenta http://www.podq.com/2004/09/25/reverse-insanity/ Sometimes you break down and just follow the crowd. Sometimes you just need a place to put images and links so you get confirmed by sites. Sometimes you do it just cause you got extremely bored. Have fun with these badges! I place them here because otherwise they would ... http://www.podq.com/2004/08/06/obligatory-badges/ Aside from the fact that I don’t own any Apple products, I simply â€?borrowâ€? the Powerbook G4 from the school for extended periods of time and salivate over iPods, I am a total Mac lover. I think it’s a bajillion times better than most other options out there... including Linux, ... http://www.podq.com/2004/07/29/some-apple-antics/ It is the dutifully earned privilege of Seniors at Ponderosa High School, the right of having a Senior Locker. While the rest of the school is subjected to either using 3â€? wide tall lockers, or 6â€? wide half lockers, Seniors enjoy 10â€? wide, 6’6â€? tall lockers in the main hallway, ... http://www.podq.com/2004/07/24/senior-locker-bonanza/ Happy July 24th and Happy Pioneer Day! On this day in 1847, Brigham Young led the first wagon train into the Salt Lake City Valley, declaring â€?This is the place!â€? So now Utah (luckies) and in general members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints get to celebrate ... http://www.podq.com/2004/07/24/happy-pioneer-day/ Could be setting themselves up for some pretty nasty stuff, but the IE development team has set up their own blog! And everyone can comment! And yell about how much they hate IE! Uh oh... ;-) IEBlog Opera, a Real Browser Get Firefox http://www.podq.com/2004/07/22/ieblog-with-public-comments/ I have a question for the blogging community, more specifically the international community. I have lived around the world, in Mexico and Belgium, currently residing in the US. I’m trilingual. Yet I don’t understand some of the bilingualness of certain sites. Examples: Chinese/Japanese site (?) with English image headers: CandyIMG.com | ... http://www.podq.com/2004/07/21/multilingual-blogs/ Now, if you are questioning why we are still trying to fight against terrorism, still trying to work out rules, regulations, and organizations to make this country more safe, and still unsure that there actually is a threat out there, read this article: Terror in the Skies, Again? http://www.podq.com/2004/07/17/terror-in-the-skies-again-womenswallstreet/ Sometimes your blood just boils when you hear of giant conglomerates working together to stop you, the single consumer, from doing things you would normally without a second thought. Two examples from today: A new bill being run through the Senate about P2P apps that â€?induceâ€? crime; includes ... http://www.podq.com/2004/07/14/too-much-outside-control/ I have finally found, restructured, hacked, and completed the portfolio section for my photography. It is based on the growing Photostack script, and takes the place of the old WP-Photos hack by Alex King. For this reason, you will not see pictures if you go to individual posts like you ... http://www.podq.com/2004/07/08/photography-portfolio-section-completed/ Ah yes, those were the good old days... Amazing CSS hacks and the fancy-to-do SSI includes. podq at one time, before I added â€?liveâ€? to the name, was the culmination of actually some of my rather skilled work. And so I present to you, the multi-skinned (it was all the ... http://www.podq.com/2004/07/07/feeling-nostalgic-the-old-podq-site/ Every decent site needs a colophon. This is the part where, like my yearbook, I get to talk about all the fancy fonts and production techniques I used, that will probably receive little understanding to those who do not know what a colophon is in the first place. But hey, ... http://www.podq.com/2004/07/05/colophon/ This one will have you rolling on the floor laughing! You knew it had to happen sooner or later, and who better than a California Valley Girl, probably more saddened by the loss of her phone than the burns on her buttocks. ;-) When cell phones attack…â€?Verizon Kyoceraâ€? burns right ... http://www.podq.com/2004/07/05/when-cell-phones-attack-burns-right-buttock-of-teen/ O beautiful for spacious skies! Happy Fourth of July everyone! Celebrating America’s independence is always a fine day! I actually spent most of the day traveling back from my family reunion, but got home in time to see a terrific illegal fireworks show throughout my neighborhood, it was grand. Continue on ... http://www.podq.com/2004/07/04/happy-4th-of-july/ This is a late post actually, from a while ago when the show aired. But I just found it lying around today and my feelings haven’t changed towards it, so I figured I would post it. "10.5 - If the Humanity doesn’t get you, the Camera Shake Will" "10.5 - NBC’s ... http://www.podq.com/2004/06/24/105-it-cant-get-worse-then-it-does/ This is a copy of the entry I submitted to the [1]Binary Bonsai Gmail competition. I wasn’t allowed to post it before the competition, cuz that wouldn’t be fresh content for Binary Bonsai! But now it’s all over, and I figured I’d bring it here too. http://www.podq.com/2004/06/21/designing-for-the-thought-process/ I just need to clean out a bunch of bookmarks that I don’t want to necessarily categorize in Opera, but want to be able to find them someday, suggesting they might actually be useful. I’m posting them here to share with ya’all and so that I can search for them ... http://www.podq.com/2004/06/21/cleaning-out-the-bookmarks/ Interesting history of quite possibly the most fundementally important OS of all time: The Graphical History of Unix http://www.podq.com/2004/06/21/unix-history-preview/ Hey everyone! Guess what? I was the lucky recipient of a contest that Michael Heilemann of Binary Bonsai was running, in which people could submit an entry, and the winner would be posted on his oft visited site and given a GMail invite. Well score! Read Designing for the Thought ... http://www.podq.com/2004/06/20/i-won-the-binary-bonsai-competition/ The Terminal - Tom Hanks Now here comes what looks like a good movie for a change! "The Terminal" is about a man who comes from an Eastern European country that dissolved while he was on the plane to America. Thus, because of customs, he is not allowed to enter US ... http://www.podq.com/2004/06/18/the-terminal/ I received in the mail yesterday my free copy of Visual Basic .NET, which I received for watching and rating 5 videos on the MSDN site. I’m not really sure what I’m going to do with it, as I don’t have a whole lot of interest in it, and stink ... http://www.podq.com/2004/06/15/visual-basic-net-for-free/ Not that it holds any valuable information or anything, but take a look at these absolutely stunning 360’s! Requires Quicktime VR. Fullscreen QTVR - Extreme http://www.podq.com/2004/06/14/fullscreen-qtvr-extreme/ Hey Everyone, the photo gallery for EFY is (mostly) up! It’s got a bunch of quality photos in it, but some of them turned out kind of bad cuz I have a crappy scanner. Other than that, take a look! EFY 2004 Photo Gallery P.S. I still have 36 more pictures to ... http://www.podq.com/2004/06/03/efy-photo-gallery-up/ Hey All! Yes yes yes, I know, you all think EFY rocks too, so let me just tell you a bit about it. I went to the very first session, BYU-Provo 1, May 24-29, so that I could start out the summer on a good note. And boy did it ever ... http://www.podq.com/2004/06/01/efy-rocks/ So why has there been a major dull in activity here? Mostly because I’ve been insanely busy reworking the site (as usual) and moving it up to the brand new WordPress 1.2 installation. I’ve always almost completed a new gallery system for my images (WP-Photos, while great, just wasn’t kickin ... http://www.podq.com/2004/05/22/new-wordpress-installation/ Of course I couldn’t resist! Sure, the quality isn’t exactly that of my 6.3 megapixel Canon Rebel, but hey, they are lots of fun! View the Cameraphone Pics Gallery http://www.podq.com/2004/04/30/cameraphone-pictures/ Newsflash! Newsflash! Newsflash! Guess what students of Ponderosa! Your beloved advisement time (mine too) is changing next year. And it’s not for the better, it’s for the worse off the deep end of the swimming pool. In fact, the word that I prefer to use is (drum roll please) â€?DESTROYED!â€? That’s right! ... http://www.podq.com/2004/04/30/phs-destroys-advisement/ I was just the glad participant in a survey conducted by the grand State of Colorado. We took this extremely pleasant survey in the beginning of our free period at school. 99 Questions, and the survey was entitled â€?How Bad of a Kid are YOU?â€? Let me tell you what, ... http://www.podq.com/2004/04/30/why-surveys-suck/ Well well well, Apple pops out another version of their incredible music-hording app, iTunes, and I like it. There are other sites that can tell you about the new features, so I won’t, I’ll just put in my personal opinion and a funny oddity I discovered on Apple’s site. Apple ... http://www.podq.com/2004/04/28/itunes-45-and-apples-drm/ Um, creativity speaks for himself. Truely a unique case: Neuhausplatz 200NC, "look ma, no case" http://www.podq.com/2004/04/22/neuhausplatz-case/ Just a bunch of miscellaneous updates that don’t warrant their own posts: Ummm, Google has 100,00 servers in their farm. Um, ya, that’s alot ;-) Extremely interesting actually. Google Servers Everyone knows how you can cheat on the Pepsi-product bottles to always get an iTunes song. ... http://www.podq.com/2004/04/18/miscellaneous-posts/ I actually read something enlightening for a change today in French class. We are currently reading â€?Le Petit Prince,â€? a classic children’s book by the French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Thus far, (as much as I can understand) it is about a French aviator who crashes in the desert, and ... http://www.podq.com/2004/04/06/le-petit-prince/ I’ve been feeling bad about not updating anyone with Darwin, so today this will have to suffice, as I’m still struggling with our evolutionary friend. Yesterday/Today (released yesterday, dated today, April 1) Google announced a new service, namedGmail, that is a web-based email solution, but you don’t really sort your ... http://www.podq.com/2004/04/01/google-gmail-or-google-fools/ We all need idols to look up to, especially when we only can claim graphic design as a hobby and are still only in high school. ;-) And yes, I believe I have found one! Shaun Inman takes a beautiful site design, applies standards-compliancy, and mixes in a pinch of ... http://www.podq.com/2004/03/26/graphic-design-brilliance/ Quick Summary: So you’ve heard all about these new web technologies, including one called CSS. Read on to find out how and why Cascading Style Sheets are going to be the savior of your site. http://www.podq.com/2004/03/24/intro-to-css/ Some people have waaaaaaaaaay to much time on their hands. Dean Edwards decided that IE needed to become standards-compliant. Awesome, great goal! We’d love it! But we would expect it to come from Microsoft. Not someone with free time. However, it appears that Mr. Edwards has spent the time to ... http://www.podq.com/2004/03/24/ie-becomes-standards-compliant/ Now this is amazing! Photo insider Rob Galbraith was able to go with the Sports Illustrated photo production team to Superbowl XXXVIII, and observe how they work with all those images. It was simply mindblowing to read this article! I thought I had a tough time managing lots of pictures ... http://www.podq.com/2004/03/22/sports-illustrated-digital-workflow/ It seems that civil disobedience is displaying itself in a new form in the fight for cheaper music, perhaps unknowingly for many individuals. The RIAA, or for those of you who dont’ know, the people who are suing you for downloading MP3’s, has had their web site attacked by a ... http://www.podq.com/2004/03/22/riaa-site-remains-offline/ Now this is insane. Who in the world was the product manager that okayed this project, and should he be charged with all of the deaths resulting from use of this product and real guns??? Gadget Madness: Kaba Kick http://www.podq.com/2004/03/17/gadget-madness-kaba-kick/ Wow, do you like the plan? I’m excited! Perhaps too excited! I managed to download and burn the ISO for Darwin 7.0.1. Pretty straightforward right? Correct! I even partitioned my hard drive correctly using BootIt NG a very nice and very advanced little partitioner and boot loader. I specified 0xA8 as ... http://www.podq.com/2004/03/16/darwin-update/ Darwin Plan Alright, I admit it, I get some pretty crazy ideas sometimes. But here is one that I think might actually work, based off of some hard work other people have put into the area. I always hated Mac’s OS 9 and previous, mostly because they really did suck, crashed ... http://www.podq.com/2004/03/15/mac-os-x-on-a-pc/ One Crazy Poke Fan! Oh it was so exciting! I went to the BYU Basketball game (me being a big BYU fan - check out the byu-experimental style) versus Utah on Friday, and boy was it great! My fam and I had on the whole blue-and-white garb, with BYU logos ... http://www.podq.com/2004/03/14/byu-basketball-and-the-ncaa-tournament/ Here’s an interesting thing that brings to the forefront of thought a couple things about the internet: Google is evidently testing out a new look (albeit very slightly changed) with a very small portion of random users coming to their site. However, observant and technically-savvy people such as Jesse Ruderman ... http://www.podq.com/2004/03/09/cheating-the-internet-and-google/ it is interesting to note how design trends, just as fads in real life, follow ups and downs, just like rollercoasters. a few years back, it was the set-in-stone gui look that did not care what your browser size was, because everything was laid out pixel-perfect with something incredible the ... http://www.podq.com/2004/03/01/web-design-trends/ a great little utility i’ve found is called "feed on feeds" by steve minutillo. it is a php script that sits on your server and acts as a desktop news aggregator for rss and atom - with one key difference. it doesn’t reside on your desktop, but instead on your ... http://www.podq.com/2004/02/28/feed-on-feeds-release/ okay, remember in like star wars when they whip out those cool little objects that show rotating 3d maps of ships and stuff or whatever? well guess what? that technology actually exists! it’s insane! a little 3d rotating image hovering in mid-air, and it is a touchscreen too! how cool ... http://www.podq.com/2004/02/28/star-wars-like-display-hologram/ what is this!? there is two feet of snow on the ground here in utah! nobody told me about this! grrr, colorado never gets snow like this... anywho, i love this state so much! so much to do, family, beautiful mormon girls, all sorts of activities, snow, the road systems, it’s ... http://www.podq.com/2004/02/13/utah/ so i put up a new style called â€?flowerâ€?, which is actually the entry i hacked together in about 20 minutes for the http://www.podq.com/2004/02/10/new-style/ life so life is going well. better than it was at least. i’m no longer selling my camera (thank heavens!) but i found the part, so things should go a little better. i shot our school’s wrestling championship against our rival school and we won, so i’m happier. plus, it’s the ... http://www.podq.com/2004/02/07/life-google-and-rss-feeds/ hey everybody, so yesterday, i was driving to school, and it had been snowing because, um, it’s colorado. anyways, i was coming down the hill, when my rear end swung around and i spun out. no big deal, i’ve done it before. i looked at my tire, and sure enough, it ... http://www.podq.com/2004/02/05/life-gets-hard/ well, while working on an os x box today, i noticed that my style â€?wiresâ€? displays rather pathetically in safari 1.1. darn. a suppose all css isn’t made equal! currently, i’m targeting opera and ie, as i use opera and the rest of the world (according to most of my ... http://www.podq.com/2004/02/03/safari-incompatability/ Quick Summary: You’ve seen it time and time again. "Perfect for Outdoors!" "Great for lowlight!" "Buy me because I’m expensive!" All these are familiar selling points you see on film boxes. Guess what, don’t believe them! Quickly learn what types and what speeds of film to purchase for you next photo ... http://www.podq.com/2004/02/02/picking-film/ so i just enabled microsoft cleartype on my monitor, after having run the microsoft cleartype tuner. it is very interesting. all my text in the os appears much smoother, yet much bolder. i’m trying to decide whether i like it or not. it looks almost more like a mac os x ... http://www.podq.com/2004/02/01/cleartype/ Quick Summary: Everybody knows how to press the button to make a picture. Which is not what we are going to discuss! The finer elements of using a camera, and camera, along with special tips, will help you to get that perfect shot when you really need to. http://www.podq.com/2004/02/01/how-to-use-your-camera/ holy cow! now this is crazy. i suppose you just have to find your correct medium! incredible chalk art http://www.podq.com/2004/01/24/chark-art-x-10/ this is what happens when you are too good at math and 3d modeling. it’s scary. i don’t even understand the titles. Hugues Hoppe’s home page http://www.podq.com/2004/01/21/too-much-math/ yes i love president bush. yes i’m a republican. yes i have morals that are higher than what most of the world is today. yes i’ll make enemies with this post. but the plain and simple truth is that, as usual, president bush of the United States of America has ... http://www.podq.com/2004/01/20/state-of-the-union-address/ i know i know, i’ve totally been slacking. no new posts, new articles (2, almost three are due for publication) and no report on anything, including snowboarding. well guess what, i’m busy in life unfortunately, and i’m upgrading to wordpress 1.0. so that will take a little bit of time ... http://www.podq.com/2004/01/08/ya-ya-ya/ Quick Summary: Ever wondered if there was just one sure fire way of making your photos better? Well guess what, there is! It’s called the law of thirds, and it is fully explained here. http://www.podq.com/2004/01/03/law-of-thirds/ january 1, 2004. that’s a cool looking date! well, it’s the first of the new year, and hopefully firsts for a whole lot of cool things. like probably most bloggers out there, i feel required to post today. who knows why. o and also, i was looking at other peoples ... http://www.podq.com/2004/01/01/first-post-of-2004/ for all of your information, my server was attacked christmas eve through a major hacker attack, destroying everything on the server. not only did my site go down, but all of my clients. they were not happy. i found a new host, put everyone on that, just to find out ... http://www.podq.com/2003/12/30/major-destruction/ okay, now i know all of you absolutely adore this site, and out of your own vainness want to wear it around everywhere. well, i haven’t made shirts yet, but here’s the next best thing... wallpapers! yay! now you can have podq on your desktop every time you turn on ... http://www.podq.com/2003/12/23/wallpapers/ this is what happens when scientists, physicists, geeks, etc., get hold of the holiday spirit. in this case, they tear http://www.podq.com/2003/12/18/when-scientists-feel-christmasy/ ::update:: so here’s what’s broken now, the list keeps getting longer. i know that most of my viewers are using ie6, (one viewer is using 5.5), the next largest percentage the standards-compliant opera (yaaaaaay! go opera! i use opera), and then a few other rebels who like mozilla and safari. so ... http://www.podq.com/2003/12/13/site-change-update/ in case any of you were confused, here is a link showing a countdown to the best day of the year. what is the best day you ask? um, duh, that would be january 12! hullooooo! the best day of the year countdown http://www.podq.com/2003/12/13/best-day-of-the-year/ so im sitting on the top of my roof belaying my dad while he sets up Christmas lights. quiet interesting. wish me luck update (much much later, as in a year later): reading back over this, i realized that i had made this post using my cell phone and a text ... http://www.podq.com/2003/12/06/the-roof/ sometimes i get extremely worried about the place i live in. i mean, i love it, if you think about it, it is quite possibly one of the best places in the entire world. i am extremely blessed to live her under such incredible conditions. however... i was in math class ... http://www.podq.com/2003/12/04/cell-phone-culture-shock/ i’ve got a lot of random thoughts gathered up over the past few days that i thought i’d share with the world. so here goes some randomness: i realized that i like snow for two reasons. so school can be canceled and because it is fun to ... http://www.podq.com/2003/11/30/snow-and-other-random-thoughts/ hey peeps! well, i’m in an incredibly festive mood because today is my favorite holiday, thanksgiving! so ya, it’s sweet! i’m in jackson hole, wyo, the only, and i mean only location in wyoming that could remotely be considered pretty. we are here at my cousin’s condo, and it’s great. ... http://www.podq.com/2003/11/27/happy-thanksgiving/ do u think its wrong to observe people from afar? oddly, its one of my favorite things to do... http://www.podq.com/2003/11/21/people-watching/ this is crazy! for all of you monty python fans out there, just what is the speed of an unladen swallow? well, some scientist decided to take on the challenge and find out. some of us just have way too much time on our hands. Like me; how did find ... http://www.podq.com/2003/11/19/african-or-european/ i needed a category for just people, besides miscellaneous, so here it is! View the People Gallery http://www.podq.com/2003/11/16/people/ well, haven’t posted anything in a while, thought i might as well. here’s all the boring stuff that’s been going on... hmmm, well, yearbook continues to suck my life away. everyday this week i’ve had to stay after school to complete yearbook assignments, sometimes till 6. stinks. i love it, ... http://www.podq.com/2003/11/13/lifes-update/ it’s november already & no snow yet! come on people this is colorado! http://www.podq.com/2003/11/09/um-snow/ i’ve finally got a handle on the css styles i’m working on. most of them are spur-of-the-moment creations i whipped out real quick in photoshop, and came up with the rest of the style to go with it. non of them are incredible yet, and a lot of them need ... http://www.podq.com/2003/11/06/css-stuff/ for any of you who have ever lived in colorado, you know the weather is about as far from predictable as possible. for those of you who don’t, here’s a quick summary of the last 4 days in colorado. thursday hot, unusually hot, 92 degrees. it’s the end of october ... http://www.podq.com/2003/11/02/the-weather/ paul thurrot, the usual windows-spill-the-beaners (no that is not a racial slur today ;)) released a new set of longhorn screenshots today, and it’s looking very pretty! longhorn, the next windows os to be released in early 2005, contains all the niceties of xp, plus tons of other features such ... http://www.podq.com/2003/11/01/windows-longhorn/ all nature pics. i love nature pics, specially macro flowers! probably my favorite subject! btw, is that how you spell flaura? View the Flaura Gallery http://www.podq.com/2003/10/30/flaura/ These pics are all black and white, the pure essence of light, absence and presence. View the Black and White Gallery http://www.podq.com/2003/10/30/bw/ in some way, demonstrate an aspect of art, like lines or texture or something. often from assignment photos. View the Artistic Gallery http://www.podq.com/2003/10/30/artistic/ ah yes! macro is the bomb! most pics here were shot with a close-up filter kit, tho some are just regular. View the Macro Gallery http://www.podq.com/2003/10/30/macro/ all odd photos that don’t really warrant a category of their own, but are still sweet. http://www.podq.com/2003/10/30/miscellaneous/ okay, so those of you who know me know i’m a pretty straight-arrow kind of person, right? i rarely if ever get into trouble, would never cause trouble. etc. but some people just shouldn’t be in the public school system. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! so mrs. kennedy, one of our school principals, is ... http://www.podq.com/2003/10/29/grr-mean-people/ quick review okay, so let’s get a quick review of this weekend. first off, ponderosa is the continental league champion again in football, the first ever back-to-back winners! the mustangs beat d.c. 24-9 in a very fun to watch, and it’s off to state! go mustangs! i was on the sidelines ... http://www.podq.com/2003/10/26/life/ check out this movie! it’s so sweet! it’s about vortext rings and such, a subject of one of my upcoming styles. i don’t really understand them, but i do know they look cool! http://www.podq.com/2003/10/21/vortex-rings/ okay, so i was watching the discovery channel, and it was about avalanches and such, and the coolest job was on it! imagine this as your job description: needed: one who enjoys launching explosives onto mountainsides to start avalanches. pay is darn good. sweeet! that’s what they do, they start avalanches, so ... http://www.podq.com/2003/10/19/cool-job-opportunity/ ah! it’s all starting to come together! a little borrowing code here, a little inspiration there, and this site is coming together rapidly! hehe, i’ve even got my gps coordinates down, tho that may be kinda freaky, hmm, maybe i should actually post those. ooh! i know! i’ll have them ... http://www.podq.com/2003/10/18/it-began/ alright, here’s the new deal. i post stuff, here, from email, even from my phone (!rock on!) so i can give updates to all ya’all about various things. the phone feature is cool cuz that means i can do it during school, breaking the rules having my cell on and ... http://www.podq.com/2003/10/18/in-the-beginning/