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Photos of Arizona and Nevada

stoney — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:03:57 +0000

Sara and I took a vacation to Nevada and Arizona in April. I went to the NAB conference for the first week, then we went touring. Here are some Flickr sets of photos that (mostly) I took.

Antelope Canyon (the picture above)
Valley of Fire
Sedona
Lake Powell
Grand Canyon
Colorado River Rafting

Schooners in the Sun

stoney — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 03:52:29 +0000

Schooners in the Sun

This is my favorite picture from our recent vacation in Camden, Maine.

Here’sthe rest of the pictures that Sara and I took.

Genealogy change

stoney — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 04:42:30 +0000

Because of the difficulty of installing the genealogy software that I was using, I’ve switched to TribalPages for my family tree.

This seems like a good way to present the family tree. It lets you search easily, and has a really nice photo system, including group photos. I’ve protected the family tree with a password to ensure the privacy of people listed there. Please email me if you can’t figure it out from the hint.

I still have a lot of work to be done on the tree. There are no photos yet, and the front page is rather basic.

Our Yosemite Vacation

stoney — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 03:51:49 +0000

We visited Yosemite National Park this spring. The park had been flooded and closed until a few weeks before our arrival because of recent rains and Spring runoff, so the waterfalls were awesome!

We heard that the waterfalls were as good as they’ve ever been. The Merced River was very high as well, and very rough. Our hotel room (right outside the park) overlooked the river, giving us quite a view, and an unrelenting wall of sound.
Here are our best photos of the park.

My family genealogy

stoney — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:52:59 +0000

I’ve added a new section, which is a link to a GeneWeb database of my family tree. This family tree contains 7885 people, stretching back to 1598, with Edward Jewett of England. It was previously available by invitation only.

I put it together in Reunion, which is a very nice genealogy application for the Mac. This data was all exported to GeneWeb for presentation on the Web. GeneWeb is not a particularly good web application, but it works and I haven’t found anything better and free.

I assembled this data by taking my family history, as I knew it, then searching various genealogy sites and the web in general for people at the fringes of the tree. When I found matches, and there was enough data to show that the found trees and my current one overlapped accurately, I spliced in the new trees. There’s bound to be errors in this, but I hope they’re minimal.

As is usual with these applications, it doesn’t show personal details of still-living people. If you’re a relative of mine and would like access to the more recent areas in this tree, email me and I’ll send you the password.

I’m still working on this tree. I’ve been scanning family photos and other documentation.

Ultimately, I hope to replace GeneWeb with something much better. It needs a more usable interface, but mainly I want to add a photo gallery, where photos can be linked to the people they depict. More than just the one head-shot per person I can get in GeneWeb. I’m contemplating writing a web application to do this using Lisp, since I love to program in Lisp, and this avoids the usual UI complications with desktop applications written in Lisp.