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Flickr DVD Ordered

For what its worth, I decided to give the Englaze Flickr Backup to DVD service a try. Ordering was pretty easy- pick one of the last 200 photos to be printed on the label (I chose my hammock perspective), enter a title, etc, and provide a credit card. I had a shade under 1000 photos, […]

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If You See This Post…

… then the server move has been successful. You are viewing the same old dog blog on a new server host, with a shorter and more memorable URL: http://cogdogblog.com/ and its RSS feed: http://cogdogblog.com/feed/ If all goes well, all old links, RSS feeds, etc from the old host at cogdogblog.com/…../ will be automatically routed here. […]

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Englaze Flickr Backup

Just randomly clicking the new feature links at the bottom of my flickr collection brought me to something I should get around top doing- getting a backup. Hey, what if Yahoo falls into the ocean? Englaze Archive will create a data DVD backup of your original flickr photos, the original uploaded sizes, and preserve titles […]

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Bloggers For Hire

Maybe its resolution time. In this first burst of 2006 and more than a few big times bloggers are hanging out their “will blog for _______ signs” or going indy. In a long tangent to a post by Will Richardson on “Reinventing Ourselves, Stephen Downes lets loose his desire for a new venue. So long […]

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The Duke- a 2.0 Thing With Meaning

Finally- something with a “2.0” on the end that has substance! My first tech task of 2006 has been the upgrade of CDB to WordPress 2.0 the “Duke” release. There should not be any noticable difference from your view, dear reader, as apparently most of the enhancements are under the hood. I avoided the excitement […]

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Rock Rustlin’ at Strawberry Ranch

flickr foto Rock Rustlin’available on my flickr Using a pickup to pull a boulder out of a hole intended for a tree. Not all of our holiday break time was lounging around the cabin vegetating to DVDs. This is a little sport we call “rock rustling”. You see, our property sits flat, but falls away […]

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Where Do All The Books Grow?

flickr foto Books, Books, Booksavailable on my flickr Where do all the books come from that find their way to a thrift store in Flagstaff? More blogging via flickr… Maybe 1 or 2 readers may recall I’ve been doing all my personal book purchases at thrift stores. Sometimes, staring at a room stuffed full of […]

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Strawberry Mountain Reflected

flickr foto Strawberry Mountain Reflectedavailable on my flickr Another photoblogged thing while I am tossing up a pile of new photos to flickr. I am continually fascinated by the reflections the bright Arizona light creates off of our 1999 VW Beetle. The car is fun to drive, but crikie! all the parts are plastic and […]

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Tree Lights Exposed

flickr foto Tree Lightsavailable on my flickr Another round with a manual and lonig night time exposure. Our Christmas tree is a live Austrian Black pine we will plant after New Years. While on break, I had fun experimenting shooting in full manual mode with the Canon Digital Rebel XT. I forgot how much I […]

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Who Needs a Dropping Ball?

flickr foto Who Needs a Dropping Ball?available on my flickr Any little town can have a ball drop for New Year’s Eve… in Flagstaff, Arizona, a giant metal pine cone will fall to usher in 2006. Continuing 2006’s opening blogs in flickr onli… It’s New Year’s Eve. Dropping some ball in Time’s Square is so […]