A Meaningful Life

My 3 kids loved seeing the pink moon (despite dad trying to take some photo’s with them hanging on my back).

The photo’s were taken with an Olympus E500 with a 150mm lens. I worked out that using the 2sec delay timer to take the photo stopped camera shake (I had it on a $10 tripod).

I increased the exposure time to get more light and the pink/red colour into the shot. This is brighter than it actually looked but the colour is very real.

This was about as close to the human eye version that I could get while the moon was in total eclipse.

I suppose the diffracted light halo around the earth must be so bright that it’s enough to light up the moons surface. Maybe someone can explain why it creates the pink colour?

This morning I found myself deleting RSS feeds from my Google Reader. I was deleting general information feeds that tend to pump out several posts in a day, each one being overly general, long and some cases a bit boring to read. Inadvertently, I was keeping the lower frequency higher quality niche feeds. Of those deleted some are popular blogs, but thinking about it they are tech news or I’m just tired of the content. I’m convinced my readership relates to high quality that doesn’t come with a high time cost. For me the important components are:

1. Explanatory title not just a funny title - Lets me chose whether to read on.
2. Good opening paragraph summary - Lets me read the brief version.
3. Succinct story - I detest writing that repeats itself by saying the same thing in different ways.