kinda like batman, but with a wife and 3 kids

Here’s an interesting e-mail exchange between me and the Ubisoft folks in regards to their amazing new game, Splinter Cell, Chaos Theory… Customer (Jason Kasper) – 06/06/2005 01:04 PM Hi there.  I would very much like to buy Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, but I don’t want my children to have to listen to all of [...]

I have now joined the Borg Collective officially, I can say, and have moved all of my photos off of my personal website and onto my Flickr account. Time will tell the wisdom of this move, I suppose. I can say that the features that Flickr offers are WAY cooler than anything else I’ve seen [...]

I don’t know why I didn’t think of looking sooner, but after struggling with the official Flickr Uploadr in Linux with Wine (the tool itself works great, but the windows file selector doesn’t allow you to preview images, and I can’t find a windows tool that works in wine that does show previews/thumbnails and works [...]

Yay! =:) Drag-and-drop doesn’t work, but the program installs and runs fine in Linux with wine!! The versions I’m running (I’m using Mandrake LE 2005 (10.2) these days): $ rpm -qa | grep -i wine wine-20040505-10.mdk10.2.thac libwine1-20040505-10.mdk10.2.thac

SKB2103044 Originally uploaded by vanRijn. I am so proud of my brother! He is an amazing athlete. Our Dad would be proud. =:) I’ve posted all of my Josh Kasper pictures to my Flickr account, so you can go check them out if you want. Or better yet, check them out from my site (awesome [...]

So, I’ve been using Singapore for the last few years to manage my photos, and it’s alright–not too horrible, it’s free, it does a pretty good job, has a couple of template options, etc. However, I really would like something that would let me tie into WordPress better. To Singapore’s credit, they do allow for [...]

I guess I was thinking that it would be neat to have a different /index.php than my WordPress blog. But… well, I never have and never will and there’s no point in it begin there. So I’m moving everything back to http://movingparts.net/ from http://movingparts.net/b/. Sorry for the chaos. =:/

My Teen Bible Quiz Team!!! =:) Originally uploaded by vanRijn. Forgot to mention this previously, but since I’m playing with Flickr, I figured I’d give it a shot. Here’s a quick shot of my team outside of the church we spent 2 days at in REALLY tough competition. Check out my Flickr pages for more [...]

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