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Each year on Christmas day my family gathers in the recording studio to record a Beatles song with intentions to reproduce the instrumentation, sounds and performances as closely as our talents allow.  This year, we’re releasing our first album recorded between December 1998 and December 2008.  We called it Crappy Road.  Check out The Bartles!

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Beatleween 2009

For this year’s pumpkin, I wanted to take a stab (no pun intended) at a carving with some shading technique. After considering Alex’s choice (the boys jumping), I decided I wanted the band with their instruments.
This carving turned out to be quite involved. The carving alone took about six hours, but I was [...]

My New Guitar

Believe it or not, I’ve been trying to play the guitar since I was six years old.  After a few years of playing old school rock band—a baseball bat for a guitar and lunch boxes and dinner trays for drums (pots and pans are so cliché)—my older brother and I had perhaps the most awesome [...]

Don’t Hang on the Rail!

Alex hangs from a hand rail in the pool. Used iPhone 3GS with Vint Shift app to take photo and Photoshop for iPhone to add vibrancy. Very cool combo.
Posted from my Flickr account.

Alex Under Water

Posted from my Flickr account.

Backup and Archive SDHC Cards

Continuing with my backup and archiving strategy, one of my goals was to get a grip on the growing number of SDHC cards I use with my video cameras; mainly my Canon HF10.  I’ve been ordering about five 4GB cards every couple months.  Besides being small and easy to lose, they are difficult to label and [...]

Setup Time Machine on FreeNAS

Update 11/27/2009 — As HarryD notes in the comments, FreeNAS 0.7 (which was still in RC at time of this writing and did not contain this feature) allows a much easier way to setup Time Machine using AFP.  See his post here.  I’ve not tested this feature in 0.7 and currently using the approach as follows.
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I always forget about my PHP development environment when I upgrade OS X.  Apple must think it’s really funny to make developers figure out what’s changed and how to fix it.  Snow Leopard brings us PHP 5.3, which apparently requires a value in the date.timezone setting or your code will produce warning messages.  Unfortunately, this [...]