We get some pretty strange and varied weather here in North Texas and the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. But when it’s March and we had a high of 64F yesterday the last thing you’d expect would be snow.
Well. It’s snowing.
March 6th, 2008:
some bragging / the real value
Sometimes it’s good to see nice things. So I’m gonna brag a little.
I’m the 57th “best photoblog” according to VFXY. I’m not sure how many members they have, but, 57th is pretty good, I’d say. My Photoblog has a 9/10 rating. VFXY, btw, is a great way to get Flickr style community on a non-Flickr photoblog. Or, alternately, it’s a great way to see some incredible photos, even if all you do is favorite mine.
I now have over 1,000,000 combined views on my Flickr account according to their stats. Special thanks to Liz, Gloria, Jennifer, and Danielle for their part in that. If you’d like to volunteer to be next, please, contact me.
36 of my photos have been recognized as one of the top 500 photos on Flickr for a particular day. A lot of people eager for this recognition post in groups, submit at certain times of day, and all other tricks in order to get noticed. I don’t have the time or energy for any of that most of the time. So 36 makes me feel pretty good. Special thanks goes to Mike, Gloria, Jess (for her help with my self portraits project, and various other self portraits), Erica, Adrienne, and all of West Texas for their part in those images.
I’ve had my work published in government papers about ecology and water supply conservation. I’ve had images used as illustrations in various college research papers. I’ve had one of my images blown up and printed on many smaller prints which were then recombined to cover an entire wall. I’ve had an image published in a book that I didn’t create myself. I’ve sold images to people I don’t know. I’ve even had repeat customers.
I’ve made so many new friends and have learned so many new things through photography. Sometimes I get down on myself because I don’t have time to do everything I want to do, or provide the attention to detail that I want to on various projects. But, when I look back, it really has been a huge success.
I’m incredibly thankful to each and every one of you who have played a part in this — either by posing for me, commenting on my images, offering advice, keeping me company while taking photographs, or taking incredible photographs yourself which inspire me to create even more. I love you all.
Filtering Thunderbird for Starred Mail
This little tip just changed my life… I swear. I’ve been looking FOR-EV-ER for a way to filter my Thunderbird Inbox so that I see only the “starred” messages. Despite my poking and prodding and searching I couldn’t figure out how until today.
When you’re building your filter/custom view/folder criteria, “starred” is not an option in the first drop down (like Flag, Tags, and Junk Status are). Additionally, despite the fact that the mail server knows all about whether a message is “starred” or not, it’s not in the header of the email either
In Thunderbird, Starred is a STATUS!
That’s right, a STATUS. Drop the first box down and select “Status”, drop the second box down and select “is”, then drop the third box down and select “Starred”. That’s it, you’re done.
Yesterday’s Tweets
- 08:09 Heading in to work late. But at least I got to see my little girl before I left. #
- 11:12 Celeste just had her first real laugh. It’s adorable. Being at work I missed it, of course, but Jess was awesome enough to record it. :) #
- 11:31 At the park drinking odwalla superfood, reading G.I.A. And wondering how many republicans voted in the democratic primary yesterday. #
- 18:58 @maryely where is the new market street? I’ve only seen the one in colleyville. #
- 21:01 Feeling exhausted with no good reason. I even had a walk today. Going to bed for now. Try again tomorrow. #
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