That Tim Guy

Which isn’t a whole lot. I’m just an amateur and I do this for pure personal satisfaction. I set everything up and then realized…how am I going to take a picture of it all…I need another camera! Then it dawned on me….my cell phone! So pardon the crappy picture, but I took this with my phone (LG enV2).

• Olympus E330 DSLR Camera
• Olympus Digital 14-45mm lens
• Olympus Digital 40-150mm lens
• Olympus Digital 35mm Macro lens
• 2 lens hoods
• Fotodiox adapter to adapt old OM 35mm lenses — I no longer have these lenses or the OM-1 body
• Olympus FL-36R Electronic Flash
• Sunpak UV filter
• Sunpak Circular Polarizer filter
• Quantaray Cross Screen filter
• Quantaray Cross 6x filter
• Quantaray Diffuser filter
• Quantaray Fogg filter
• Sunpak 6060XL Tripod
• Extra battery
• 1gb CompactFlash memory card
• 2gb Olympus xD memory card
• Olympus FE-360 (Point & Shoot Camera)
• 1gb MicroSD card with Olympus xD adapter (not pictured)
• Canon ZR 500 MiniDV camcorder
• Plus all the necessary chargers, cables, adapters, etc. not pictured.

I’m currently testing out some image gallery plug-ins for WordPress. I tried WPG2 which is used in conjunction with the Gallery free script. Unfortunately, I ended up getting fatal errors after activating it and my site would not display. Not being the techie I used to be I ditched it after 30 minutes or so. That one was designed to implement that gallery into a WordPress Page.

Currently I am trying the NextGEN Gallery. So far it seems to be working. It comes with some weird JavaScript viewer called LensPic which I guess ends up being some sort of advertisement for an online 3D  imageviewer called CoolIris. Needless to say it loaded relatively slow and was too fancy for my tastes so I turned that feature off. Hopefully this all works and I can sort through my photos and get them uploaded.

Just installed the plugin “Yet Another PhotoBlog” and we’ll see how it goes. I’m trying to find a decent image management system for this site and I figured I would give it a whirl.

I figured I should give a quick review of this product and supply some pictures since everyone says this stuff is amazing. RaggTopp convertible protectant is…well…amazing. So far the product has been on the car for about 2 months. I applied RaggTopp right after getting the top replaced on my MX-5. When it rains the water literally beads right off of my canvas top. I am curious to see how it will hold up through the winter and I do have high hopes so far.

I must admit I was a little skeptical at first spending $20 USD on one (1) can of RaggTopp and I was nervous to be spraying this onto my top. Application was relatively easy. I kept a separate rag ready to wipe any excess spray off of the windows/paint immediately after it hit the surface. I did notice on the few spots I missed some effort was required in removing the spray off the glass. I personally applied 3 coats and alternated the directions I sprayed each time to make sure everything was hit. I spent no more than 30 minutes doing it allowing 5-10 minutes in between coats.

Overall I am a satisfied customer. I also purchased the cleaner as well, but haven’t had to use that yet. Pictures are included to prove the water beads off. These pictures were taken after it had been raining for several hours.

RaggTopp Protectant

RaggTopp Protectant

I added a couple of pages for my Rabbit and my Miata. The Rabbit is worthy of its own page. I’m not sure if the Miata does or not since it hasn’t had anything special done to it, but I figured “Eh, why not.”

So I finally started to “customize” this.  I figured I’d add a few things and such. Nothing fancy, perhaps I’ll do more again later.