Well golly... I go to look at the drupal web site and it turns out there's a conference in Portland at the beginning of next month.

I've been trying to get a reliable answer on using CVS to backup my digital images to a linux box on the LAN and/or an external drive or RAID array. I'm certain there are more than a few solutions, but I have yet to find them.

Computer Darkroom is a decent collection of tutorials dealing with digital photography. Including a bunch of good info about Photoshop's File Browser.

I find it interesting that there are former ammo factories in, say, Belarus, which have been converted into plants for making photographic lenses.

The lenses are cheap and of decent quality (most of the time), and perfect for a good-enough-ian such as myself.

Out West magazine kept this list of great burger places updated until 2001.

See if your favorite place is on it. Mine's not. Sigh.

Yesterday, M and I hiked up Porcupine Creek from Rainy Pass to Cutthroat Pass, in the North Cascades area of Okanagan National Forest.

The trail we covered is a 5-mile segment of the Pacific Crest Trail, and the area really should be part of a wilderness preserve or national park.

Discovering groundglass.ca, which is a pretty spiff photoblog.

Don't expect this to make any sense.

...just where the name "Mile23" comes from.

Tiny alcohol stoves made out of soda cans: Zen stoves.