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		<title>A year of Solar Power and some very accurate early estimates&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s been just over a year since I had the solar panels turned on, and I&#8217;ve learned one important lesson:

Either Bella Energy did a perfect job of estimating my energy usage for the entire year, and sold me the exact right number of solar panels needed to generate that exact amount of energy I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkerpress.com/2010/02/24/a-year-of-sola</link>
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		<title>Front Range Photographic Society (FRPS) has moved!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The website for the Front Range Photographic Society (FRPS) has moved to a Facebook group located here.
We were not really &#8220;active&#8221; and the only thing that was really getting used was the mailing list, so I decided to stop paying for it, and move it to Facebook.
I still have access to all photos, files and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkerpress.com/2010/02/03/frps-moved</link>
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		<title>More &#8220;green home&#8221; work (well, rework really)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest update in the &#8220;Greening&#8221; effort was to replace my old X10 Thermostat (TXB-16) with a new Venstar T1800 7 day programmable thermostat, and then hook up an INSTEON adapter to it that will let a product called Indigo on my home control computer run it.
By itself, the new thermostat is considerably more powerful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkerpress.com/2010/01/25/venstar</link>
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		<title>Santa Barbara Sunsets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I happened to be working in Santa Barbara during the last week, and caught a couple nights of stunning sunsets. I didn&#8217;t go out the first night with the camera, we just sat on Patty and Jeff&#8217;s deck and watched it. But tonight, I couldn&#8217;t &#8220;not go&#8221;. I drove down to Shoreline Park (on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkerpress.com/2010/01/10/santa-barbara-sunsets</link>
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		<title>Painting the Steamboat Barn with Light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gregg and I tried an experiment &#8220;painting&#8221; the Steamboat Barn with light tonight. It was 15 degrees out there, about a half hour after sundown. Gregg brought a halogen spotlight and &#8220;painted&#8221; the barn while we shot exposures about 30 seconds in length. Gregg&#8217;s shots on his D90 turned out WAY better than mine, for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkerpress.com/2009/12/05/painting-the-steamboat-barn-with-light</link>
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		<title>Green home upgrade continues with TED 5000</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My green home upgrade continues with the addition of a product from a company name The Energy Detective called TED 5000. Basically this is a meter that let&#8217;s me keep an eye on energy usage with both the feed from Xcelenergy (the power company here) and my solar panels. It&#8217;s something only a guy could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkerpress.com/2009/11/25/ted5000</link>
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		<title>And snow it goes&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They warned us on the news over the weekend. People ignored it as usual. They warned us again on Monday. So I took the Harley out for a ride on a nice fall day. They warned us again on Tuesday, but it was cloudy and windy, with lots of fall leaves in the air, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkerpress.com/2009/10/29/and-snow-it-goes</link>
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		<title>Updates to Grade School Pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Susan Ricks, I added a bunch of names to the Grade School Pictures that I posted a while back. 
They&#8217;re all here.
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		<link>http://www.parkerpress.com/2009/10/13/gradeschool</link>
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		<title>2nd annual 4th of July block party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We held our 2nd annual Fourth of July block party this year, and it was another successful, if not slightly more sane party. We wrapped it up at 1:30am this year instead of 3am, and it only took an hour to clean up the streets the next morning. And, just to be clear, I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkerpress.com/2009/07/05/2009070</link>
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		<title>Shawn and Michele&#8217;s Wedding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was asked to help out a friend and shoot pictures for her wedding (a few pics appear after the break). Little did I know it would be 102 in San Jose that weekend, but I did it anyway. Luckily it was not a suit-type wedding, or we would have had to turn on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkerpress.com/2009/06/27/mouser</link>
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