I was playing around with a homemade light diffuser I made out of tracing paper and a frame I cut out of one side of a cardboard box. There was a shaft of light coming in through the window onto Maya’s bed and I showed Dawn what the diffuser would do. Then I thought this [...]
From January 2008 issue of Bon Appetit. Dessert of the year. The chocolate pudding is rich, as expected, but the mix of creme fraiche, cream, sugar, and vanilla in the topping is remarkable. I will definitely use this on many desserts in the future. The pie and pudding can be made up to 2 days [...]
Crossroads Park, Bellevue, WA. Thursday, 27-Dec-2007.
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Maya loves to go to Crossroads Park. It doesn’t matter to her that it’s cold, rainy, or windy–her coat keeps her warm and dry and there is so much to smell that she doesn’t pay attention to anything else anyway. This is my favorite picture of the day. I stylized it a bit in Lightroom [...]
I’m late to the party with this post–it’s kind of funny that I’m late, or maybe just sad, as you’ll see–and anyone who cares has already seen the information in a dozen other places, but today we released the Entity Framework Beta 3 and the Entity Framework Tools CTP 2. You might expect to hear [...]
Do you use a todo list? Are you happy with it? I use the task list in Outlook and flag items with due dates. But for a while now I have found myself at the end of the day moving dates on a bunch of unfinished tasks. Some of them move day after day until [...]
We woke up to about an inch of snow this morning. That didn’t stop us from running errands, though, especially since the streets were merely wet. Our outdoor lights are a few years old now and the bulbs have started to burn out so we made a trip to the hardware store to get some [...]