Way back when… I picked up my first digital camera. It was early 2000 I believe (I remember taking pics of my niece and nephew with it shortly after they were born). It was about 5″x5″x1″ and used some card format that no longer exists. I’m not sure if it was even a half-megapixel. Back then I had my web site under the mnscraps.com domain and once I got my second camera, an HP 3-megapixel, I started doing a “Photo of the Day” section on my web site. I kept it up for over a year, not daily, but I amassed a couple hundred pics… most of which I subsequently lost to a hard drive failure.

I decided to try and pick it up again with the new year after reading some stuff on Lifehacker. I am not going to delude myself in to thinking I will absolutely get a picture every day… I am going to shoot for 4-5 a week at least. But who knows, my Palm Pre is 3mega-pixel, the same as my original HP. So between that and my 10mega-pixel Kodak, I should be able to easily come up with the shots I need for this.

I’ve already started posting on Facebook as well, and interestingly enough found out a cousin of mine did this back in 2002. I can’t say the whole “365 Project” idea was his, but he managed to get the best domain for doing this… 365project.com

So that said… here’s my pic from January 1, 2010 (and yes, I’m making use of the ability of WordPress to back-date this posting).

Was at a New Years Day party at my friend Katie’s. I’m not a wine drinker, but these two bottles I found kinda interesting.

Ok, I decided to take some of my favorite pictures and make some wallpapers for my new Pre.

Some of the stuff, I don’t know the origin of the images so I can’t share, but here’s some stuff from photos I’ve taken.

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I’ve been using WordPress for my site for just shy of two years now… and lots of sites in order to blatently generate renewed interest in older content post “year ago” type posts… and since I’ve been too busy to come up with something original lately (cept for a few things over at my formerfatdudes.com site), I figured I’ld jump on this bandwagon. But, I won’t be doing this weekly, likely towards the beginning of each month I’ll go back and look at what I did last year.

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Ok, being sick this weekend has ben a joy. But one good thing to come of it, I’ve been going through my pinned posts from Bloglines and cleaning things up a bit. During one brief period of consciousnous early this morning I came back across the following sites that let you play around with photos.

wanokoto – this Japanese site (with a bit of off kilter English translation) takes your photo and ages it to look like it was taken back in the 40′s or something. The interface is bout as simple as you can get, you browse for a local file or plug in the url of a picture that’s already online and click the “convert” button. Here I took a panoramic shot of the Capital from my recent DC trip, and here’s how it turned out. To save the converted photo you need to right-click and save the image.

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Blame it on the cats if you want…  cause now even the dogs, and irons and skateboard can haz cheezburger, thanks to the photog work of William Hundley who came up with the brilliant(?) series of shots of different things on .. cheeseburgers.

w/cheeseburgers [flickr]

I am a bit of a geek. Yea, big shock there. I bought my first digital camera over seven years ago, a camera from before they even measured the quality in mega-pixels. I have a few shots of when my niece and nephew were first born using that camera.There were better ones out there, and it was not long before I upgraded to an 2 mega-pixel HP camera. A camera the same niece and nephew now use as a toy.

I am on my fourth digital camera, an 8 mega-pixel Kodak. Over the last 7-8 years I have taken thousands of photos. Many of which I still have, despite loosing way too many to a hard-drive crash a few years back.

For at least a few years now, I have been looking for an online gallery to use to show off my photos, and in the process Of course being the geek that I am, I want to host my own gallery, not rely on a third party like Flickr. I have looked at dozens and actually tried out about a dozen. I finally have found the one I am sticking with.

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