[gallery link=“file” columns=“2”] (Click images for a larger view.) Brooke Baker of Brooke Baker Photography in action while shooting my niece and daughter and, then, my wife and daughter.

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I’m in a tough spot. My entire career depends on research and writing and I need a way to keep all of my bibliographic resources in one (safe) place. I like using LaTeX for writing papers, but, it is so unwieldy when it comes to getting feedback from my team because we like to use the (say what you will) the excellent commentary tools in Word. I really like the BibTex file format/concept for storing my bibliography for my papers, proposal, and dissertation because it keeps everything in one place and, through tools like BibDesk, I can easily integrate them into Word. I do not like EndNote because it is such a resource hog. I didn’t “love” Zotero, a product from GW, but I didn’t hate it either. It worked with Word and I can export to BibTex if I need to. ...

Giving number 100 of 112 25-second speeches this morning was the scariest moment in my academic life*. If you’re not familiar, CHI has a fun tradition of doing CHIMadness each morning where EVERY speaker of the day gets up and does a 25 second “commercial” for their talk. Very nerve racking. VERY. The room was so packed that the organizers needed to invoke the fabled Fire Marshall rules and keep people out of the room. ...

I did not know that Apple announced a new iPhone OS, let alone a new software development kit (SDK). So when I heard about it, I looked it up in Google News and saw the restrictive license as a trending topic. I read the Daring Fireball article [link] that most people are referencing and agree with his interpretation of the license, but, I don’t think any of it will matter. ...

I was looking around on the Web the other day and saw a product for your SLR camera that bounces the light up so your in-door pictures look better. It was $34.99 which is way too expensive for a “reflective piece of material” especially when I have a whole roll of reflective material, aka aluminum foil, in our cabinet. I used this on my film camera which has a pop-up flash and I’m sure it would work with a digital one as well. ...

Hello. I apparently haven’t posted on my blog since sept 2009. I remember disengaging my twitter feed to my blog because of tweeting the wrong thing and realizing it was in a bunch of places (facebook, twitter, my blog, identi.ca, friendfeed). Last semester was good. I earned my first B+ in stats II, but, now classwork is done and I’m working on my integrative paper (iPaper). Once I successfully complete that, I will be a PhD candidate and ready for my proposal and then dissertation. ...