Well, we’ve taken tons of photos with the new digital

Well, we’ve taken tons of photos with the new digital camera. By
the camera’s reckoning, over 330 so far! But how many of those would people
actually be interested in seeing? Not many, I’d bet. A select few are on the Newest
Stuff page. 

More interesting than just basic photos of the family are the
fun tricks we’re learning to do with the digital camera. I don’t expect many
people happen to have 3D glasses lying around, but if you do, check this
out. 

Basic fake photos are much easier to do with the digital camera. Here is a
preliminary experiment, but I’ll have a much better version up soon. 

We’ve also
been experimenting with bluescreen techniques for making fake photos. At first
we were using our television with a pure blue picture as the bluescreen, but
then we found out that Andrew’s bedroom wall is fairly decent for this when we
use a little extra lighting. Plus it’s way bigger than that 50″ TV. We’ve
done just a couple of composite photos so far, but the real fun begins when we
start using the bluescreen for video! 

And on a totally unrelated note, I threw together a fun little
Java applet to help you really annoy your chat buddies. Click
here to visit the Chat-SHOUT page.

So… I didn’t wait a whole year after all. Maybe

So…
I didn’t wait a whole year after all. Maybe I’m not the horrible procrastinator
I’m made out to be. Anyway, the real update is just one page. Click
here to see new photos of the kids and some test shots from our new digital
camera. Also please note that the voting and feedback pages are currently
broken. Because of some nasty viruses (Code Red, Nimda, etc), I had turn off
some of the web server’s features. I’ll fix it someday.

OK, while I’m at it, even though a lot of you
have already seen these, I should mention
something that was added to the site, but never mentioned here. Go to the Videos
page to see a couple of videos we made earlier in the year right after we got a
digital camcorder. They are big files, but they’re on a reasonably fast server
for all you broadband users.

Also not previously noted
is that the boomerang page moved to its own domain: www.boomsmith.com.
That site was on a now defunct Yahoo web ring and got hits from all over the
world. Here are some of the domains I got visitors from:

.com (Commercial), .net (Network), .fr (France), .nl (Netherlands), .edu (USA Educational), .br (Brazil), .ar (Argentina), .es (Spain), .ca (Canada), .mil (USA Military), .pf (French Polynesia), .fi (Finland), .si (Slovenia), .org (Non-Profit Organisations), .cz (Czech Republic), .it (Italy), .au (Australia)

Interestingly, those are in order of most visitors to the least.
Australia had the least visitors to a boomerang site!

The Boomerang Page has been totally redesigned. Instead of one

The Boomerang Page has been
totally redesigned. Instead of one giant page with everything I have split it
into several sections. There are several new boomerangs scanned in, too. 

Happy New Year, Everybody

Happy New Year, Everybody!

Wow. Its been a long time since my last update, but I’ve been on
holiday. (Plus my SIDS has been acting up). What’s new? Well,
for one thing, I’ve moved my larger video files
to a faster site, so if you’ve never looked at them because they took too long
to DL, you can do it now (unless your slow connection is the problem).

In other news, Andrew and I wrote a new game over the holiday
break. Perfecto, the
Java-powered shape-matching game is available here.
Its still under test, so if you find any problems with it, let
me know.