http://steven.vorefamily.net Look Ma - No Hands! Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:54:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This certainly isn't anything close to the weather that's been seen this winter by my friends and family in the Maryland & Washington D.C., but it's more than we're used to here in the Atlanta area.     http://steven.vorefamily.net/2010/02/13/snow-in-alpharetta/ There's another "thing" making the rounds. 15 Favorite Books: "Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes." Here's my list: The Shack - William P. Young The Gunslinger (and the ... http://steven.vorefamily.net/2009/12/05/15-favorite-books/ Application development, especially User Interface, is very much about "the little things." The things that make life easier for users. Here's a simple example, one that bugs me almost every time I use a browser. There are probably URLs that you type often and, for whatever reason, you don't bother ... http://steven.vorefamily.net/2009/11/13/its-the-little-things/ Almost two years ago I wrote about and published photos of Lake Lanier, at that point somewhere around 15 feet below it's normal level. Here's the good news today: http://steven.vorefamily.net/2009/10/14/its-full/ The younger of our two sons is now also off to college, and my wife & I had an opportunity to visit with him on campus of Auburn University this past weekend. We also used TicketCity to get a couple of seats for the football game, and boy are we ... http://steven.vorefamily.net/2009/09/29/college-football/ Seventy years. 70 Years! Wow, the movie we all know and love and reference in many ways - The Wizard of Oz was released seventy years ago. There is of course an 70th Anniversary Two-Disc Special Edition of the DVD available for purchase - this is almost a "must have" ... http://steven.vorefamily.net/2009/09/18/the-wizard-of-oz-at-70/ I came across an interesting article today, Email Full-resolution Photos From the iPhone 3G S. The article applies to the non-'S' model, too, and probably to the earlier non-3G as well. iPhone users should give it a read; I hadn't even payed enough attention to notice that sending photos via the obvious ... http://steven.vorefamily.net/2009/07/03/sending-full-rez-photos-from-your-iphone/ Photography is, when all is said and done, an art in which light is a very important element. Where there is little light, we do what we can to compensate. We use strobes, we use fill lights, we use reflectors — sometimes with good results, but often not. There are ... http://steven.vorefamily.net/2009/06/16/on-light-or-the-lack-thereof/ I work in a 5-story office building which shares the parking lot with another just like it. Ten floors of offices, I'm not sure how many employees work here. On a "normal" spring or summer day there are three bikes in the lot - my FZ-6, a Ninja and a ... http://steven.vorefamily.net/2009/06/15/ride-to-work-day-follow-up/ Did you? I've ridden every workday so far this month; my goal is simple — no four-wheel vehicle commuting this summer, barring any hurricanes later in the season. http://steven.vorefamily.net/2009/06/15/ride-to-work-day-2009/ I went for a nice ride this past weekend, about 110 miles in all up into the North Georgia mountains. You know it's going to be a good ride when you see a sign like this and plenty of roads like this which lead to a destination like this, with plenty ... http://steven.vorefamily.net/2009/06/01/weekendride/ A little excitement today: I was riding the motorcycle southward along Maxwell St, doing about the speed limig safely on my side of the double-yellow, when I was passed by a black Ford F-150 doing what appeared to be double the speed limit. I barely had time to realize he ... http://steven.vorefamily.net/2009/05/27/excitement/ Allen and I went for a motorcycle ride today, to particpate in a Poker Run for charity. We got our first card and a map, but neither of us had a good place on our bike to hold the map. I've got plans to get a tank bag with a ... http://steven.vorefamily.net/2009/05/02/if-youre-going-to-follow/ I participate in two online motorcycling communities, ADVrider.com and Sport-Touring.Net. Many riders on ADV have begun "Tag-O-Rama" or "Photo Tag" games, in which a rider posts a photo of their motorbike in some particular location, along with a few clues, and others try to figure out where it is. The ... http://steven.vorefamily.net/2009/04/26/photo-tag-o-rama/ Last year I got back into motorcycling after a 14-year hiatus, on a 1994 BMW R11RS. That was a great machine, and I enjoyed riding it quite a bit. Unfortunately, I don't really know how the bike was ridden or serviced over those years (and 63,000 miles); the gearbox and ... http://steven.vorefamily.net/2009/04/25/back-in-the-saddle-again-again/