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Today there was a beautiful light in the afternoon, I went out to the backyard and took some pictures.

I just headed up to the Canon EOS site, to get some updates for their software and noticed that they just released a new camera on the ‘Rebel’ family called XSi:
For stunning photography with point-and-shoot ease, look no further than Canon’s EOS Rebel XSi. The EOS Rebel XSi brings staggering technological innovation to the masses. [...]

Piclens is a really cool plugin for web browsers allowing to see pictures on the enabled sites as you have never seen before; they have released a wordpress plugin, but it only works with version up to 2.3.2, so doing some googling, I found this excellent modified plugin that works with wordpress 2.5, then now [...]

The past weekend my wife and I assisted to a class to learn how to prepare sushi, this Japanese food is one of my favorites, here you have some shots of the final products ;)
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Adobe released today a service called photoshop express, and looks as a nice service to upload your pictures, it really has not much as photoshop besides the name, I saw the news from Scott Kelby blog, but as the comments on Scott blog and also pointed in multiple sites, their terms of service there’s something [...]

Here you have a screenshot of my desktop, I hope you liked:

Trying to make a connection to a MS SQL Server 2005 database from PHP, I always got an error message using the mssql_connect saying:
Warning: mssql_connect() [function.mssql-connect]: Unable to connect to server: {servername}.
I tried several solutions like, updating the ntwdblib.dll (on windows; I had the same error on linux) library, configuring the tcp/ip properties on sqlexpress [...]

Thanks to Brad and Sonny, visited the Jack Daniel’s Distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee and was a very interesting and pleasant visit for the most popular whisky in the planet, I enjoyed it a lot.
In this place completely all Jack Daniel’s whisky is distilled and delivered all around the globe. Check some of the pictures at [...]

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Originally uploaded by cmanon

On the last week of 2007, we went to Angangeo in Michoacan to visit the Monarch reserve, it is a beautiful place, I’ll post more pictures in my Flickr gallery.