http://texasellis.com The home for West Texas Ellis family news, photos, and more. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:36:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yep, it's been a while, but here we are again. It may seem odd to some cyber-savvy uber-dorks, but real life does on occasion get in the way of blogging, even on a low-rent blog like this one. We've all been pretty busy as of late - in a good ... http://texasellis.com/2008/04/22/back-again-back-again-jiggity-jig Well I believe I've gotten everything put back together.  Got the memory issues resolved (I think), restored the Photo Albums, and got all the Pages which had inadvertently been converted to Posts converted back to Pages via a little SQL work in phpMyAdmin. If you notice anything that seems a little ... http://texasellis.com/2008/02/16/alls-well But now it seems that in all my fiddling around with this infernal contraption I've managed to wipe out the Photo Albums page.  It's actually still there, but Wordpress doesn't seem to know that yet. Until I get it all sorted out, you can peruse the Photo Albums here. http://texasellis.com/2008/02/15/memory-problems-seem-to-be-fixed Wordpress has been giving me heck with memory errors and whatnot.  I'm working to resolve them. In the meantime, ponder this: http://texasellis.com/2008/02/12/sorry-for-lack-of-updates-lately http://texasellis.com/2008/01/26/this-is-how-we-really-are [singlepic=2442,200,240,,left]Ahh, yes. Here I sit, listening to George Winston's December and Linus and Lucy albums as they stream through the aether to my computer, countless bits of paper and packaging and wire twisty ties and whatnot strewn all over the front room, browsing through the couple hundred Christmas season photos I've ... http://texasellis.com/2007/12/25/merry-christmas-you-sons-a-guns Here's a neat little demonstration of how depth of field is affected by aperture. [slideshow=142] It's not as dramatic a demonstration as it could be, as I really wasn't intending to post this series of photos. I was just messing around with my new tripod*, experimenting with taking long-exposure shots. ... http://texasellis.com/2007/12/22/aperture-demonstration [singlepic=2434,200,240,,left]Kristina called me into the bathroom tonight while she was giving Claire a bath.  Claire was laying on her stomach and looking all around and just generally, unavoidably, being cute. It's not that she's just now holding her head up or anything, it's just that she's getting more comfortable being on ... http://texasellis.com/2007/12/18/2-months-1-week [singlepic=2433,200,240,,left]Kristina's self portrait.   http://texasellis.com/2007/12/08/heres-kristina [singlepic=2432,200,240,,left]Man, I can't even begin to imagine what kind of algorithm Netflix uses to combine my enjoyment of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, and Yojimbo into a movie recommendation.   http://texasellis.com/2007/12/07/sometimes-i-wonder-about-netflix