Back to the blur
Motion blur - Rocks, Austin, Texas
The tag line says this is an “occasional blog” but I did not intend that it would be 11 days worth of occasional; so it goes. This image continues the blur series but stepping back five years to 2003. Vibration reduction lenses have a useful side effect when panning long exposures; they can’t stop the panning itself but they straighten the lines of motion making for a stronger, less accidental, design.
Time passes in a blur and it is easy to miss the colors and patterns it contains; we focus on our worries of the moment and grow older without noticing. Thanksgiving is one of the greatest of American inventions: a holiday weekend that starts on a Wednesday evening and runs four days. Time to stop the clock and take stock (if you are not stuck in an airport or traffic jam).
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… also time to rewrite your main web site in PHP and Drupal. Ruby on Rails turns out to be an unstable choice in a shared server environment. Demonstrating how a showroom iPhone could browse the Web to Tina last weekend I found that the main site was down – my service provider had updated the Rails Gems and broken my code. That’s the second time in a month; PHP is more stable, Rails has to go.
