I’ve been reading the 30 days to a more accessible web site to make improvements to my own site. One of the first things I did was to move the main content so it will load first. Since I had changed the columns to CSS from tables that was easiest to do. I made some other minor tweaks as well. The biggest problem is all the javascript used in the site. A lot of its in there so iBlog doesn’t have to reload the entire site ever time I make a change, it would be nice if there were another way.
Monthly Archives: November 2003
Day Trip To Santa Fe Photos
Today I took a trip to Santa Fe with my parents. There isn’t a whole lot there, for being the capital city of New Mexico. No high rises, just a small square in the middle of the city. A lot of artsy shops and Indian jewelry surround the square. It was pretty cold, under 40 degrees, so we didn’t stay long. Yeah yeah, 40 isn’t very cold compared to some places but it’s cold enough not to want to be in.
I’m having some problems with my Camera. Take the image titled “Looking tword the cathedral”, Images that are dark sometimes have some graininess to them. I also find that I get about 2-3 corrupt pictures. I don’t know if this is some problem with the memory card or the camera. There are a few images I took of the monument in the center of the square, where they removed the word savage describing the indians, that were corrupt.
There wasn’t any protesters in the plaza today but there were some along the way.
Race track
Edge of town
Protesters
Santa Fe
Near the cathedral
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Native American art work
Looking toward the cathedral
Rooftops
About the monument
Down town square < 
Santa Fe Public Library
Arizona June 2003
61 photos from our trip to Arizona in June of 2003. Includes the Petrified Forest, Montezuma’s Castle, a few pictures from the “metro area”, Sedona, and some place before Sedona in the Verde Valley.
How Not to Get Fired Because of Your Blog
I think this is important because some bloggers just may not get it (regardless of what software you use). Especially the younger types. I don’t talk about my work here. My work photos stay at work. I will often start a blog at work, just as I surf. But only during lunch and break. Unfortunately i have to produce results so i really don’t have a lot of time for this during the day anyways.
Snow?
[Update:] I think I saw snow for a minute. Other than that all we got was rain in Albuquerque. Plenty of snow in the Sandias and Santa Fe though. We really needed the moisture otherwise so I’m not complaining.
Movie Style Freeway Shooting
This looks like it came from a move, but it happened on I-10 in Arizona. Very near where I use to live.“This appears to be a load of undocumented aliens that was being hijacked or kidnapped from another group of smugglers,” Pinal County Sheriff Roger Vanderpool said. “It was clearly retaliation and to send a message.” The smugglers who were attacked near Casa Grande had kidnapped the immigrants from the assailants in southern Pinal County, he said. The suspected shooters later caught up to the other group about 8:30 a.m. as the smugglers headed toward Phoenix in a two-vehicle convoy. They opened fire from a van, killing four and injuring five others. The two vehicles carried 24 people.” It left the freeway in a bottleneck for 9 hours. It all has to do with the trafficking of Illegal immigrants.
Atlanta
Hmm… I’m not even sure what year this was from. I remember going to meet a girl and it didn’t work out. We won’t talk about that. I’m guessing 1998 and I know it was around march. Anyway they were taken with a real crappy disposable camera. They were in much worse shape but iPhoto was able to enhance them pretty well.
Check Out This Weird House
This house is located in Rio Rancho on Horne and Northern Blvd. Don’t know who designed but there doesn’t appear to be anyone living there. It’s basically a long tube with a garage stuck on the end.
[Updated: 04/15/04] Tonight on the Channel 7 News they had a story on the weird house in Rio Rancho. It’s designed by Bart Prince and will be featured in an edition of Architectural Digest. Unsurprisingly there is no information on Channel 7′s website.
[Updated 05/19/04:] Here’s an article about the house.
[Updated 09/13/08:] There are a number of other pictures of other Bart Prince houses on Flickr. Here’s just a few:
New Site Design
The new site design is pretty much complete. This one is considerably different then the old one where I tried to emulate the look of a mac.com menu. This one is almost completely CSS driven, there is very little I modified in the templates. There is still a few things left to do including modifying the rest of the templates for the site and coming up with a better header.
Google has yet to crawl the new site so a lot of links they have are pointing to pages that don’t exist since I moved the old site to the /old/ directory. Don’t know how to make their robots crawl my site?
I still looking for the perfect link manager. I’ve tried BlogRolling and are currently using BlogLinker. BlogLinker is pretty good but I don’t think it’s perfect.
I’ve also discovered that Internet Exploder on Windows doesn’t so such a good job rendering the page. So I though it might be a good idea to put a permanent note on the site so those poor fools will know its not the site but their browsers.