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From the writer of “Bringing Down the House” comes the story of the founding of Facebook. I listened to the unabridged version of this book purchased on Audible. Like “Bringing Down the House” this book is a very conversational accounting of historical events. I find it similar to Hunter S. Thompson’s style of gonzo journalism without the drugs or bombastic language. I like the writing style and believe it makes the story interesting and listenable. ...

The “Maximum Ride” series from James Patterson is a “Young Adult” series that is intended for grades 7 through 9. From the James Patterson web site about the first book: “Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel. Six kids who are pretty normal in most ways—except that they’re 98 percent human, 2 percent bird. They grew up in a lab, living like rats in cages, but now they’re free. Aside, of course, from the fact that they’re prime prey for Erasers – wicked wolflike creatures with a taste for flying humans.” ...

Here is a picture of our baby boy who is growing bigger every day. The launch date is August 22nd.

We had a doctors apppointment this morning and have been told that we are having a baby boy. Pictures and such coming soon!

It was a great game at Shiloh High this weekend. It was great to get out and take my first sports photos of the year. I have a lot of open days left on my schedule, if you have an event you would like photographed please let me know.

The rain did put a damper on things, but it was a great weekend with a lot of vintage motorcycles, racing, stunting, and talking.

The Gallery is at https://photo.davenelson.com/DragonCon/DragonCon-2009/. Here are some quick highlights Shatner & Nimoy on Friday Costume Contest on Friday Night Parade on Saturday Morning Adam Savage of Mythbusters Dawn Costume Contest on Saturday Nimoy & Shatner on Sunday Masquerade on Sunday Arc Attack on Sunday Here are some cool searches Battlestar Galactica Draco Malfoy, AKA Tom Felton of Harry Potter Felicia Day (includes other Buffy guests) Terry Gilliam

Please do not let this happen to you. If you have the time and stubbornness please push the issue of Photographer’s rights as far as you can. Trey Ratcliff of Stuck in Customs was harassed recently in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park trying to take photos of the World of Coca-Cola museum and told that he was not allowed to take photos of the building. I will be getting in contact with management of the museum and see if I can find out what their policy actually is. ...

Price: EUR 19.99 Web Site: https://www.macility.com/products/typinator/ This is a great application that watches as you type and can fix your spelling mistakes in any application. It is a real life saver for me and my terrible typing/spelling. You can also set up shortcuts so that you can type a short bit of text and it gets replaced with much more text. I like to use “dt “, that is a “d” and a “t” followed by a space to insert the date, fantastic. And it will do this in any application, even the finder.

Over the next couple of weeks I am going to write about the software I have found for the Mac OS to make my transition from the world of Windows complete. I am finally comfortable spending all of my computer time inside of the Mac OS. I still have WindowsXP in Bootcamp for playing games on Steam, and a couple virtual machines using VMWare and Parallels for the occasional Microsoft Outlook need or using Garmin Mapsource to upload maps and waypoints to my GPS, but I rarely miss Windows or proprietary applications that only run on Windows. ...