Unlike that 'memorable' occasion of The 'Midnight' Joke of the Century this year's celestial event was indeed confirmed by
This night however, no one seemed to stay up late to watch the lunar eclipse. (I wonder why?) But before going to bed I managed to take a couple of photos sans tripod. I had to use my camera case to get the lens pointed up at the moon.
I realize that the photos aren't 100% in focus, but these 2 are the only photos in where the stars aren't a streak across the sky.
Here they are. Enjoy!
Lunar Eclipse, February 20, 2008.
Taken without a tripod.
Had to stop shooting when my dog started sniffing up the camera.
... those weirdos who believe that we came from monkeys and give the billions and billions of light-years away speeches?aka. astronomers.
This night however, no one seemed to stay up late to watch the lunar eclipse. (I wonder why?) But before going to bed I managed to take a couple of photos sans tripod. I had to use my camera case to get the lens pointed up at the moon.
I realize that the photos aren't 100% in focus, but these 2 are the only photos in where the stars aren't a streak across the sky.
Here they are. Enjoy!
Lunar Eclipse, February 20, 2008.
Taken without a tripod.
Had to stop shooting when my dog started sniffing up the camera.
Labels: Eclipse, Lunar Eclipse, Moon, Photography, Photos, Stars
You all must forgive me for being delinquent with my blog. I won't even try to excuse myself or enumerate all of the reasons why I was delinquent, but suffice it to say I have been busy.
Besides being involved a lot more in events, in the last couple of days I have been trying my hand at Web Design. While I have tinkered with HTML in the past, for some reason I felt the burning desire to dig deeper.
So off I went with nothing but Notepad++ and a CSS Template from FreeCSSTemplates.org.
(Ok fine! I had Dreamweaver installed just in case. But I didn't use it! I swear!)
But after a couple of hours of tinkering (aka. 2 days) I grew so frustrated with having to copy the header and footer from page to page, I turned to the Oracle (Google) to find out how to create a header and footer in CSS.
But instead of finding a tutorial on CSS, I stumbled across an extremely Easy Peasy way of using PHP.
It seemed so simple, and so easy to follow the logic that I couldn't resist, and installed WAMP Server (again) to test it out.
After 15 minutes of intense coding (aka. copying and pasting) I had a working page with a PHP menu!
With such quick progress, I grew confident that at last I had found my true calling!! Until someone called me to do janitor duties and off I was cleaning toilets again.
Speaking plainly, I finally understood many principles in PHP which eluded me even after trying to read PHP & MySQL for Dummies more than once, the logic in those books never seemed to sink in. Even after understanding the basics, I went back to the book to try to develop, and got myself even more confused than I was before. It took me a couple of visits to the Oracle to get my brain cleared from all the garbage from those books.
Don't get me wrong, I have talked to several people who swear by anything from (insert product here) for Dummies. But my brain can't seem to wrap around the logic that rules in the Dummy world. No offense to all of you.
After running after my own tail for awhile in both PHP and MySQL, I finally got back on the straight and narrow path of making them work together.
Now, for an experienced Web Designer/Coder that is a piece of cake, but for me who swore I would never be able to code a dynamic Website, that is quite a feather in my cap so to speak.
And while I have ran into a couple of brick walls, so far I've been able to either fix my own mess, or find alternatives. But learning never ends, and unfortunately so do bugs in your code. But the Oracle has all the answers, it all depends on your question.
Moral: Don't try to be a dummy if you aren't one.
Besides being involved a lot more in events, in the last couple of days I have been trying my hand at Web Design. While I have tinkered with HTML in the past, for some reason I felt the burning desire to dig deeper.
So off I went with nothing but Notepad++ and a CSS Template from FreeCSSTemplates.org.
(Ok fine! I had Dreamweaver installed just in case. But I didn't use it! I swear!)
But after a couple of hours of tinkering (aka. 2 days) I grew so frustrated with having to copy the header and footer from page to page, I turned to the Oracle (Google) to find out how to create a header and footer in CSS.
But instead of finding a tutorial on CSS, I stumbled across an extremely Easy Peasy way of using PHP.
It seemed so simple, and so easy to follow the logic that I couldn't resist, and installed WAMP Server (again) to test it out.
After 15 minutes of intense coding (aka. copying and pasting) I had a working page with a PHP menu!
With such quick progress, I grew confident that at last I had found my true calling!! Until someone called me to do janitor duties and off I was cleaning toilets again.
Speaking plainly, I finally understood many principles in PHP which eluded me even after trying to read PHP & MySQL for Dummies more than once, the logic in those books never seemed to sink in. Even after understanding the basics, I went back to the book to try to develop, and got myself even more confused than I was before. It took me a couple of visits to the Oracle to get my brain cleared from all the garbage from those books.
Don't get me wrong, I have talked to several people who swear by anything from (insert product here) for Dummies. But my brain can't seem to wrap around the logic that rules in the Dummy world. No offense to all of you.
(Darn! I just sounded so conceited there!)
After running after my own tail for awhile in both PHP and MySQL, I finally got back on the straight and narrow path of making them work together.
Now, for an experienced Web Designer/Coder that is a piece of cake, but for me who swore I would never be able to code a dynamic Website, that is quite a feather in my cap so to speak.
And while I have ran into a couple of brick walls, so far I've been able to either fix my own mess, or find alternatives. But learning never ends, and unfortunately so do bugs in your code. But the Oracle has all the answers, it all depends on your question.
Moral: Don't try to be a dummy if you aren't one.
Labels: Laptop, Oracle, PHP, PHP and MySQL for Dummies, Technology, Update, Web, Web Design
