Poor Pooh has Swine Flu?

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Poor Pooh has Swine Flu?

Where Am I? GPS Coords of my Cellphone

Jacqueline got her photos back

A few weeks ago Jacqueline had her photos taken at Pre-school and yesterday the photos were ready to pick up. I can't believe how well they came out, all of them are really good. I scanned the example below

Will add more to the gallery once I have time to scan them.

Sunday we finally invested in Rock Band, after Jason kindly brought his over on Saturday Night for my birthday party. That game is way to addictive. I hope to actually get a chance to play the drums some time - but Lindsay is the official drummer for our band it seems. I think I may need to get my eyes tested again - as playing more than a couple of games hurts my eyes.

Happy Birthday to Me

Today is my birthday, the Digital Rebel XTI is down at the moment as it zapped its batteries, as tends to do when left with the battery pack hooked up for a while. So I had to snap a couple of pictures of my presents with the old Canon Powershot G6. A fine point and shoot camera in itself.

As has become the norm in the Holgate family, well for me at least - I purchased my own gifts in advance of the big day today. First on the list was my new Ruger GP100 .357 Magnum revolver (Below). Been drooling over this fine firearm at Scottsdale Gun Club for the last 6 months and finally purchased it yesterday, after being offered a very sweet deal by the salesman. Planned upgrades include a new front sight as the black front sight just doesn't cut it. Put 50 rounds through her yesterday and the nice .357 BOOM!! turned a few heads.


I also invested in a new Network Media Player. I was torn between several options - Mac Mini, Apple TV, HTPC and then right around the time I was finally going to start building the HTPC, a colleague James found these units manufactured by a Korean company named Divco. To I took the plunge and ordered a Divco TVIX M-6500A (http://www.tvix.co.kr/Eng/products/HDM6500A.aspx)
You can see her below - sitting on top of my XBox 360. My first impressions of the unit are very good, it's played everything I've thrown at it - 1080p High Def streaming over the network and from the 750gb Samsung Hard Drive I installed in her. ISO, Mpeg, MP3 audio - the user interface could be a little more desirable and the network setup wasn't very intuitive, but all in all for $400 it's fantastic.

My New Blog

Well - I now have a Blog. I'll be using this blog to talk about some of my photography in my album at: http://www.rholgate.com/gallery