Posts from — January 2009

I run my email for this domain through Google Apps for domains. I like the GMail web interface, plus the huge IMAP accessable mailbox I get with it.  The only challenge has been I also have a Google Account under the same email address.  The biggest challenge is that means there are two Google Document repositories.  As we’ve been collaborating on getting sponsorship for upcoming PhotoCamp here in Milwaukee I’ve run into issues where I can get to the document.

After some digging I found something on the "Settings" page of my Google Apps Documents page that allows you to move your documents over.  I clicked on this and after some time got the following:

Am I to truely believe that Google is investigating this "immediately"?  Did someone’s screen at the Googleplex light up and the war room spring into action?  I don’t work there, so I can tell, but I’m not holding my breath that they are fixing this "immediately."

Somewhere back in December I had the idea that it would be cool to host a big, free to attend, photography event, ala BarCamp but focused only on photography (nice pun, eh?).  Around the same time (quite litterally), fellow Web414 member Raster posted something on Twitter about it.  A few direct messages later and I was the defacto organizer of the event.

Fast forward to today, we’ve set the date and have a site up will all the details at photocampmilwaukee.org.  If you’re a photographer in the greater Milwaukee area (and I’d include Madison and north Chicagoland in that), save Saturday, May 2, 2009.

We’ll have sign up information soon, but right now we are looking for sponsors.  If you’re interested contact all of the organizer of the event on the sponsor information page, or hit me up directly on my about page.

I did this for the kids yesterday at lunch and shared it on Twitter & Facebook and just about everyone I know living in the current deep freeze went and tried it. (I didn’t get a photo of it, the one at the left is courtesy of Andy Langager)  If the temp is significantly below zero (say -5F or so), take boiling water outside and toss it in the air.  Most if not all of it will appear to freeze before hitting the ground.

I wish I could say I came up with the idea, but I got it from local meteorologist Vince Condella who blogged about it earlier this week.  It is sort of a parlor trick in that since the water is boiling, it is close to evaporating already.  The cold (and importantly) dry air will cause the water to evaporate instantly. 

The kids still watched out the window, slack jawed saying "Wow!  Do that again!"

So with little fan fare, I just posted the final two images for my 2008 photo project, Project 365.  Due to 2008 being a leap year, there are actually 366 images.  You can check them all out below: