Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

• Sat, 15:49: “@sguod: I am married. I don't appear to be able to change my relationship status on Facebook from this handset. #DJwedding” <- congrats!
• Sat, 18:21: Sat in a garden in the sun, writing a blog post and waiting for the hummingbirds with a camera by my side. This sure ain't Putney.
• Sat, 19:22: At least two house finch nests and one pair of black phoebes in this garden. I'm getting my tweets from the real thing...
• Sat, 20:27: ZDNet UK blog post: IT security? You're doing it wrong! http://t.co/kVFKK0iE #zdnetuk
• Sat, 22:47: Oooh - hummingbirds...
• Sat, 23:13: In The Background http://t.co/5UBIN2h8
• Sat, 23:14: In The Approach http://t.co/EJ8jXi2g
• Sat, 23:35: Flecks of Green http://t.co/nWK7eJ8d
• Sat, 23:50: Looking at a friend's print of Tesla's original AC motor patent. Awesome...
• Sat, 23:59: Funniest thing I have heard in a long time. "I can cast out either one of your demons, but not both" - the XORcist. (via @joncallas)

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Last night we sat in our friends' garden in Silicon Valley, watching the moon rise over the trees that line the little creek that runs behind their house. It was the 2012 supermoon, the closest full moon of the year where the moon is 14% bigger than normal...

I had my long lens with me, and remembering that I was photographing reflected sunlight dialed up my exposure to 1/2500^th of a second. With a little judicious cropping here are a couple of shots taken as the moon floated through a gap on the acacias...





San Jose, California
May 2012