I was intrigued when I stumbled across a wired article about CHDK. CHDK is a firmware add-on for Canon’s Digic II & Digic III cameras. Of course my S3 falls into this category. Being an add-on it doesn’t replace the main (factory) firmware which makes it relatively safe for testing.

I’ve been considering jumping to a DSLR for many reasons. One reason is the ability to shoot in RAW. Now I get to play with RAW on my S3 before making the jump.

There is more to CHDK than RAW. Check out the wiki to learn more. One side benefit, it helped reveal I had taken over 5700 photos since buying the S3 (2 or so years). That should help me lobby for a DSLR

We celebrated Raegan’s 3rd birthday today. Everything was PINK! Pink cake, pink spoons, pink forks, pink plates, pink presents, even pink raspberry lemonade. What more could a 3 yr old desire? A doll house almost as tall as she is, loads of Fancy Nancy stuff, a super bubble machine, friends, family, and of course cake and ice cream. Did I mention lots of PINK?

There are some pictures in the gallery. I spent more time grilling than I did taking pictures. Hopefully Papa took some good ones that he’ll forward to me.

Been trying to find our thorplife site lately? The on/off nature of the site has been compliments of Carson.

Recently I took a trip Dallas. While I was away Kelly and her parents decided to surprise me and move our playroom back to the loft. Thank you sweetie for all your hard work! The basic idea behind the move was so we could have a true guest room again. Something we needed to restore, but with a 1 and 3 year old, who really wants to spend the night with us?

One slight glitch to the system. The loft was the server room. The server, DSL router, Apple Extreme router, and a slew of other technical gadgets are all protected by a battery backup. Turns out a battery backup is not toddler friendly. To be precise the vertical unit I purchased is alluring to toddlers. If placed in an open cabinet, the on/off button is the perfect height for small toddler fingers. Push! Off goes the server, down goes the internet connection. Push! Internet connection restoring, server starting up . . . Push! Off again.

And endless cycle of On/Off accompanied by the parental “PLEASE STOP!” and a smiling precious toddler lead me to cry Uncle.

Welcome to wordpress.com. Hopefully a more toddler friendly environment!

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