Notebooks of Scott

My boss and I were in the news, in an article about our “Science Friday” workshops.
Check it out here.

I have created a new CSS style for this website. You can try it out by going to the homepage and choose it from the CSS list on the right bar. To make it permanent choose the style and then click “Set as Primary Style”

WikiBrowse is a program that is designed to help users get a basic overview of a topic before researching deeper into more reliable and detailed sources. It also contains a host of features that would help the LinkHopper who follows links across wikipedia.

• Geko based redering engine
• Flag links for later viewing
• Suggest interesting topics
• History Tree
• Bookmark pages
• Click a word for wiktionary definition
• Page of the Day widget
• Random search

While walking the dogs I noticed that one liked to stary away from the grass and would try to stay on the concrete. This led me to come up with the idea for the “Urban Dogg” line of pet clothing. It would consist of sweaters, “Bling Dogg Tags”, and possibly hats among other things. Just a thought…

I have several goals for this website.

One of these is facilitating the creation of an online presence. I would like to have people who are searching for me be able to find me without extra work.

Another goal is to show off my work, artwork, photography, models, CSS styles, website designs, etc.

The final goal is to practice blogging and attempt to boost my creativity. So periodically I will be posting things that I came up with, whether they be pieces of art, or ideas that I have come up with.

The New Version of my personal website has now been launched at www.scottmckittrick.com.

I was at Barnes & Noble today while out shopping and I was looking a the computer reference and self teaching books. There were two very large shelving units dedicated to the various topics and I got to thinking… There is so much out there to learn that one has to wonder where to start. Should one start with HTML? or C#? or ActionScript? or Python?…. There is so much to learn.

Right now. I intend to have a large library room in my future home.

Sunset Station, originally uploaded by smckittr.

I have noticed, that for me, the most dramatic shots I’ve seen tend to be shots at night, in the evening, or under other such conditions where the lighting is not uniform daylight. For me the most interesting pictures involve selectively lit subjects, where only parts of the image are lit so as to effectively guide the eye to the proper place. A lit subject in a dark background also tends to be more dramatic because it seems to be emerging from the darkness.

CLA Building, originally uploaded by smckittr.

One thing I’ve noticed about my shots is that I like to get down to eye level with the subject. Most of my shots tend to be low to the ground in relation to the subject. For example, the picture featured here could have been taken from the nearby library. However, I think that looking at the building from a lower angle presents a more dramatic shot.

With model trains I like to try to get down to the level that a model person would be looking at them.

It would seem that, at least in many cases, being lower relative to an object will lend more drama to the shot.