Friends don't let friends use IE6

Internet Explorer 6 was released in August of 2001. At that time it was a substantial advancement in browser technology. Enhanced CSS support, better cooler DOM level control. Sure it wasn't standards compliant, but at that time, the standards were so unsupported that it didn't really matter because any progress was good progress.
But times have changed. Browsers have a evolved, computers have gotten more powerful and users have grown to expect more from the web. The time when standards were only a suggestion have passed. That's why, as a web developer, I beg of you, please do not use Internet Explorer 6. Don't let your family use it, don't let your kids use it, don't even let your dog use it. Even to this day, IE6 has a market share of about 30% on the internet. But, as web developer, the pain of having to deal with a 7 year old browser technology has cost me many a night of lost sleep.
So please, save a web developer, upgrade your browser today.

Young rocker

Wanted to do a quick photo post while I was still awake. Tonight I bring to you the a up and coming star in the rock and roll world. I just hope that rock won't be dead by the time he grows up.


Newest member of the Rock Band. He can't quite reach the base petal but you should see him on expert Blackened.

Sure, he can only say a few word but you should see him rock out on Timmy the Lords of the Underworld!

MegsPhotography.net, a study in absolute positioning.

Like I said, this blog will occasionally get nerdy. Tonight I wanted to talk about the new homepage redesign for www.megsphotography.net. Originally the website and domain were setup by our friends at KSnarf and since then, the only additions I've had time to do is adding a quick gallery exported directly from Lightroom to show off some work. Much is in the work in terms of getting the business up an running but we figured it was time to give the site a quick makeover. So last night, I dusted of Visual Studio and cranked out a new homepage for the site. And IMHO, I think it turned out very nice, ascetically and technically. Very simple, clean and very light weight. The homepage only has 5 requests for a total of 205KB (197 KB of that is the homepage image). In comparison, the homepage markup alone on the new site we've been developing at work is 160 KB. Oh, and it's compliant in all browsers (even IE6) :D. Even the transparent .PNG file that is the site name. Next step is to design the interior page wrappers to that we can have an actual "contact" and "about" page.

Fun in Prime Time

The other day, I got an opportunity to play around with a co-workers 50mm prime lens. With all of my experience being in lenses that have at least some zoom, it was interesting to have to do all the leg work myself. Of course, the trade off is an extremely fast lens. Spent most my lunch break with the camera all the way down in f1.4 and though the results were somewhat off, it was still a pretty interesting experiment.


Not sure what kind of flower this is but they are blooming in abundance in this area. Love the purple color. It interesting that at f1.4, the whole flower isn't in focus though.


Picture of Blacky from Blacky's Pasture in Tiburon.

First Post!!

Welcome to Mitch's little corner of the internet. This will hopefully be the outlet that Livejournal and Facebook just couldn't seem to provide.
The main topic for this blog will likely be photography but there is no guarantee that there would be small tangents into the world of programming, tennis, art and life in general.