In a story by London's Daily Mail earlier this month we learned something new about the Queen's main squeeze: a tribe of 400 on the South Sea island of Tanna revere him as the human face of an ancestral spirit who, according to legend, left their island and married a queen.

Just in time for the July 4th weekend here in the states digital photography school dot com has put up a great article on how to photograph fireworks.  So, camera happy people (you know who you are... Tami), read up, and get prepared for next week!

I think the water bottle is the coolest.

If you think people talking on their little bluetooth headsets look like lunatics just wait until this new headset from Motorola hits the streets.  Motorola's Lilliputian H5 will make LA look like it's out of lithium.

We were at the wedding of our friend Leo and I noticed this signage at the entrance to the wedding hall.

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Last night we attended the wedding of our good friends Leslie and Jason. It was a beautiful ceremony at the Greenbriar Inn in Boulder, Colorado. The weather was perfect and the setting was beautiful.

After the wedding we went to a piano bar called The Reef. We were expecting a place for the wedding party to hang out, talk and listen to some music. We instead discovered a boisterous review music ranging from the 60's to present day with a little humor mixed in and lots of audience sing along encouraged. If you're in Boulder, stop by there on a Saturday night with a group of friends ready to have fun.

Steve got tired of having his bank charge him fees so he instituted his own set of fees... when the bank called him to verify a wire transfer he informed them of the $5 fee for calling him to verify the transfer.  Read the transcript on his blog for the exchange he had with the bank rep.

How do they do it?

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I suppose this helps explain why I feel guilty after eating a Big Mac.

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Picture courtesy of Phillip Holmes of Shane Griffin images.

This is the top shelf of our fridge ...

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... and we don't even drink beer.

We returned from our House hunting trip on May 23rd and there were a few things which stood out to me:

• In the summer the sun stays up a long time - we were getting ready for bed at 9:30pm and had a great view of the sunset from our hotel room.
• The vast majority of rentals are furnished - I suppose if you don’t own a place, why own furniture?  We felt lucky to find an unfurnished place for rent that fit our needs.
• Not everything is open on the weekend - we were hoping to get a tour of rental properties on the Saturday we were there, we had to opt for Friday and Monday instead.
• Movies have reserved seating - we found the same thing in London and loved it.  When you buy your movie ticket you pick a seat too.  We were able to buy a ticket at 3:50 for a 3:45 showing of MI 3 and have a good seat with no issues (we just missed a preview or two, no big whoop).

Long time, no blog.

I'm just starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel... and I have been "on vacation" for two weeks now. Why is time off such hard work? Because Paula and I are moving to Ireland.

I'm not leaving Microsoft... or even really leaving Windows Live Mail/Hotmail. Microsoft is adding to its development workforce based in Dublin and I'll be going over there to work on Windows Live Mail with a couple developers.

We're going to sell our house and (as you saw earlier in the blog) I needed to finish the bathroom I started. I also needed to finish off a project I started of replacing the trim throughout the house. Combine that with a house hunting trip to Ireland, meeting with realtors, packing up some of stuff to stage the house and having a garage sale I've been running ragged.

Things are starting to ease up, however. The house goes on MLS tonight and there is only one small bit of trim to finish in the bathroom and I'll be all done.

And Paula will be happy because I now have the energy to shave again.