Too big, too big!

Standing over the shoulder of someone trying to load my blog, I thought "wow, this thing is way too huge!" With over 10 megs of images, the blog takes a horrific amount of time to load. So now, when clicking on my link in the "Family Journal" page, you'll be taken to a page that just contains the latest ten entries. Nice and small(er). From there, there's a link to the entire blog as well.

As long as we're talking shop, I'm using CSS now to render the page (as well as XML and XSLT). Here's the stylesheet. It puts the white border around the images (except the ones it doesn't!) and centers images in tables.

Sunday pics

Out in the garden:

Later, I was in the den and saw a bird in the tree we haven't had around before. Turns out it's a Northern Flicker:

This weeks ride to work

I rode to work, Trish came to work and I dropped the three of them at the airport, I drove back to work, loaded the bike in the trunk, and drove home.

17.8MPH Average on the way in.

Ride on Sunday

I went out for a ride with Yehuda and Mechel last Sunday (6/20/04). Up to Willow Tree park and back. We rode the Mariner loop, too. 11.47MPH average, 7.38 miles.

Sunday at the Nursery

On Sunday we went to Matterhorn nursery:

Farewell, Yonah and Yaacov!

A couple of guys from Yeshiva left this week. Yonah and his family moved to Long Beach, California to run the Hillel there, while Yaacov and his wife are moving to Phoenix, Arizona. The Yeshiva had a going-away get-together last Thursday.

Yaacov and Avi

Yonah

The Rosh Yeshiva gives chizuk (words of encouragement) to Yaacov and Yonah

On Sunday, Yonah had another get-together for families. While there, I spotted an insect eating a fellow bug:

Pictures from last sunday

Taken on the 13th:

Infocomm pictures

The product I'm working on, the TPMC-10, was shown at Infocomm a couple weeks ago. Here are some pictures:

No One Asked Us

"The analogy is simple. For years, you have watched the same large, violent man come home every night, and you have listened to his yelling and the crying and the screams of children and the noise of breaking glass, and you have always known that he was beating his wife and his children. Everyone on the block has known it. You ask, cajole, threaten and beg him to stop, on behalf of the rest of the neighborhood. Nothing works. After listening to it for 13 years, you finally gather up the biggest, meanest guys you can find, you go over to his house, and you kick the door down. You punch him in the face and drag him away. The house is a mess, the family poor and abused...but now there is hope. You did the right thing."

Read the article.

Sunday Stuff

This past Sunday, Yehudah and I went for a ride with Mechel on the tandem. Through the Merrick / Dr. Frank neighborhood to Rt. 306, to Carlton, to Spook Rock, to Viola. 7.22 miles, 11.21 MPH average.

Saw the Venus transit

Saw the Venus Transit today with my Meade ETX90-RA. I projected the sun onto the telescope manual: