CompSci Grad Not your typical graduate

Now that the cold weather is here, I have the opportunity to practice macro photography. I've had a ring light for a while now, and I haven’t got around to using it in any real depth. Mainly because my white balance settings on my camera does not include a "Ring Light" settings. Anyways, I started using it today and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I was testing it on a couple of beer bottle caps that were laying around. I had to use a small aperture to get as much of the two caps in focus as possible, and the ring light on "high" to make sure that the entire area was illuminated. I thought it turned out half-decent. What do you think?

I’ve been helping people out here and there with their various web based projects, but lately people have been asking me to do full on web based projects. I never accept them because of how busy I am with work and school, but I have to ask the question: Can’t I just go to a meeting without being offered work?

I say meeting because of what happen on Thursday night. My mom is a part of an organization that does economic stuff and they are just starting out. As most people know, as soon as a group of people get together with a purpose, the first thing on their mind is usually “website”. So this organization was tossing around ideas for a website for some time now, but the idea’s were going nowhere. My mom asked me to come in to give some direction to their efforts, so I figured I’d come in and give my usual speech about planning and reasoning behind getting a website, and what to expect in the process.

I thought this was pretty funny. It reminded me of something I'd do, if I could do it.

I was surprised when I found out that Drupal went into a third patch release for Drupal 5 before RC1 of Drupal 6. So today I did the patch upgrade (fastest patch upgrade I've even done since I started using Drupal), and now I'm looking more intensely at the Drupal 6 release.

I have 3 themes on drupal.org that I'll have to update to be Drupal 6 compliant, and clean up the CVS releases of them.

Anyways, once RC1 comes out, I'll be helping test patches and submitting patches for the code of the modules I use on my site. Doing this hopefully will give me a better understanding of the setup that I currently have, and appreciate the work put in by the community to have these contributed modules available. That way, they are out in the community faster, and on my site faster.

Once I think I'm out, somehow drupal pulls me back in :P