I lost my camera this weekend, at the Hive-Mind party. This is understandably quite disappointing. I don't shoot a lot, but I have been enjoying it.



Perhaps this will be the impetus I "need" to step up a quality notch. My previous camera was a Canon Powershot S2 IS -- mid-range between point-and-shoot devices and DSLRs -- and I've been entertaining the idea of moving up to a Rebel XTi or similar.



Regardless, bummer ensues. Feel free to ignore my flickr stream for the time being.

no, not the snow kind.



i've been very busy with work the last few weeks. finally! after a long dry spell, i am currently working on a two week (or so) project building an integrated login layer on top of several existing systems -- most ASP.NET, but some written in classic ASP. it's nice to have that tickle in the back of my brain again.



one fun/interesting aspect of the project has been the opportunity to implement a wrapper around an ASP.NET object so that it can be called from the classic ASP application(s). as it turns out, it is not really as difficult as i feared -- and it's a far simpler and more elegant approach than the various other options i tried. it feels good to have the experience under my belt, so i'm more likely to consider this approach in the future.



(wow, i am such a geek. i just wrote that implementing a com-callable wrapper is "fun".)



i have several other projects on the horizon as well -- a few small sites (some for friends, others for a recent and hopefully recurring client). and sometime soon i intend to revamp my personal site, so that i can point clients there.



it feels good to be working again.