I need some IT help, so I contacted the folks at Popular Mechanics with a question that I think would make for a good story. In the meantime, I thought I’d post it here in case any tech-savvy readers stumble by.

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I’ve finally moved into the 21st century and bought a smart phone. It’s the new Motorola Droid:

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I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the quality of the pictures on this site has degraded over the past year. Specifically, the sharpness of the pictures is has been falling off (examples here). Our camera is about 5 years old, and it just doesn’t have the right stuff anymore. Every time I take pictures of a project I’m working on, I have to take them from several different anglers on several different camera settings, hoping that a few of them turn out sharp and in focus. There were many recipes and projects I didn’t blog about because the pictures came out too blurry. What good is a photoblog without good quality photos? This was the old camera:

It was a good little Kodak, and it’s features were innovative when it was made. Unfortunately, those days are long gone.

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I mentioned the other day that no one ever notices the old safe we use as a side table in our den. The opposite is true of our rotary phone:

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