May 7, 2008
This shouldn’t come as a surprise: using Yahoo! Image Search, photos from Flickr abound; using Google Image Search, not so much.
For example, a simple search for “Tilley hats” yields two Flickr photos on page 1 in Yahoo and more on every subsequent results page. Missing from the results (at least the first 5 pages) are any images from Picasa Web Albums.
The same search on Google doesn’t yeild a Flickr photo until page 3. The surprising thing is that the first Flickr photo is only two spots behind the first Picasa photo.
(Perhaps the most surprising result of all is the photo in the second row on the first page of Yahoo!s results.)
(Search results are based on a search conducted May 7, 2008.)
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February 25, 2008
Neither Sarah nor I have ice skated in who-knows-how-long, so we decided to the our 2 1/2 year-old to the ice rink. Surprisingly, none of us fell.
OK, Olivia kind of fell.
She did amazingly well considering rental skate boots aren’t comfortable and hers were a couple sizes big. Once laced up, I set her down and she walked to the rink.
On the ice was a little different. She wasn’t wobbly or shaky, but she did tense up. If you’ve skated you know that a tense, unyielding body doesn’t skate very well.
The big test for mom and dad was when Olivia was all done skating and we were on the far side of the rink. I had to carry her and skate 3/4 of the way around the ice rink. Did I mention that there were about a billion people on the ice?
See the few pictures we managed to take over on Flickr.
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January 21, 2008
By the way, more holiday and other photos are up.
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October 21, 2007
Before…
After
No reason. Just thought I’d see.
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September 7, 2007
I just couldn’t resist taking a picture.
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September 3, 2007
Labor Day marks many things, but many around here it means back-to-school. My classes actually started last week; Sarah has students returning this week.
To mark the seasons, I’ve uploaded a ton of photos, most from this past weekend’s trip to Harsen’s Island. Sarah’s family has a cottage there and we decided to have one last mini-vacation. The Schleicks and the Baats joined us for most of the short stay.
I’ve also uploaded some older pictures, including a couple from a trip to the zoo (see photo above) and another short trip that we made about a month ago to Grand Haven. We stayed in a cottage with my parents for a long weekend.
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August 24, 2007
The past two nights we have seen some pretty powerful storms blow through the area. Last night I drove home from Ann Arbor and smack into this. The twilight sky got darker and darker until it went purple. The lightning strikes were amazing — but way too difficult to photograph using a phone while driving.
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May 17, 2007
Just uploaded some more photos, a variety of stuff this time.
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March 11, 2007
More photos of the super-cute photogenic girl have been posted.
Also, a few photos of the making of a birthday cake. Happy birthday to me and to my mom.
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