Author: kimball
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Historically Important Date
Today is a very important day. On this day in: 1809: Naturalist Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England. 1809: Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in present-day Larue County, Ky. 1915: The cornerstone for the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington, D.C. 1977: I was born. 2000: Charles M. Schulz, creator of the…
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Clock Resurrection
Until this past Friday we had a pretty cool clock hanging on the wall of our catwalk over the family room. The face was composed of a small (about 4″ diameter) round block of wood stained a dark cherry with brushed aluminum bars (about 11″ long) set into it in a sunburst pattern – a…
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Why I Celebrate This Time Of Year
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Jim Brickman Holiday Homecoming concert here in Boise. Jim is a fantastic pianist and I was really looking forward to the music of Christmas performed in his unique style. The concert was good, but at one point Jim talked about how hard it is to write…
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If A Tree Falls Next To The Highway…
Ever since moving to Boise, every time I drive down to the Salt Lake area I look forward to this little stand of trees that is off to the side of I-84. I don’t know what kind of tree they are, nor do I know why they are there. But I do know that they…
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8th Anniversary
To celebrate our anniversary, traditionally and I have found a way to get out of town to a nice bed and breakfast and enjoy a relaxing weekend together. We’ve stayed at all kinds of places, and usually had a great time. It’s nice to be waited on for a change – to be pampered, spoiled,…
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UITableView Hints
As someone only recently exposed to Objective-C, Cocoa, and the iPhone development environments, I have been struggling with some of the ways that Apple has decided to do things. Today I beat my head against a UITableView for most of the day, trying to figure out how to set up the view, the datasource, the…
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High Dynamic Range Photography
Several weeks ago I ran across an article about HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography. HDR photos are produced by taking several different shots of the same scene with different exposure settings, and then doing a sort of a blending of all the shots to produce one image. The result can be anything from stunning to…