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Nikon CoolPIX
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08/20/04 Finally got my website moved to a new server. It should load
much faster now, but it's going to take a long time to upload all of my
pictures back...
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02/17/03 Blizzard 2003! I haven't have that much fun playing with
snow in the city since the blizzard back in 96. (^_^)
[Quote
from ny1.com]
FEBRUARY 17TH,
2003
After nearly 24 hours of continuous accumulation, the Blizzard of
'03 ended Monday night after dumping more than 19 inches of snow on the
five boroughs, leaving city residents to dig themselves out following the
Presidents' Day holiday.
Monday's storm was the single biggest snow
storm since the two-day Blizzard of '96.
The official measuring
station in Central Park recorded 19.8 inches of accumulation, less than
half an inch shy of the 20.2 inches recorded on January 7-8, 1996. The
snowfall made Monday's blizzard the fourth-heaviest storm since the city
began keeping records in 1868.
Queens received 25 inches of snow,
while Brooklyn received 20, the Bronx 18.3 and Staten Island 18
inches...
[End quote]
01/26/03 Just came back from my Banff ski trip. I'm almost done
updating my picture archive. You can go to my picture page to check
what I have so far.
For those who also went to this trip and like to share your pictures
with other Ski Klub members, please email me at wesley@wesley.net for the
FTP server info.
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![]() 02/05/02 I just received a Chinese New Year card from Winnie.
She's an old friend from high school. What a surprise. I lost contact with
almost all of them many years ago. I wrote her back via email and told her
about this website. Just saying hi to her here. (^_^)
Another of my high school classmate created a website about the
history and culture of Yuen Long, Hong Kong. Yuen Long is where I went to
high school and it's a nice little town with some quite unique characters.
His website is http://yl.com.hk/
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12/04/01 Exceptionally warm weather and beautiful clear sky last
night. I found a little time to carry my small telescope up on to
the roof of my apartment building and took some prime
focus pictures on some easy stellar objects.
After using the Polaris to align the scope, my first target was the
Jupiter. Then the Saturn. These two winter jewels are both
bright and beautiful. I took some pictures of them and their
satellites. Unfortunately, even the 1 second exposure were found to
be too bright. The planets were totally washed out and became just
some big white dots. Then I went on to another big bright
stellar object, the Orion Nebular. I just started to experiment with
different exposure settings, the camera battery died on me. There
wasn't enough juice to take the dark frame to cancel out the long exposure
picture noise for the Orion Nebular. It's really too bad.
Gotta do that again sometimes.
When I was thinking of packing up, I looked at the sky and it was
amazingly clear. So I decided to do a little more stargazing.
However, the battery for my telescope doesn't quite agree with me.
Before the scope reaches another object, the battery died. I had to
loosen up the gear to manually steer the scope. To fine tune where I
want it to point without battery was found to be impossible. So
before I called it a day (or night), I had it point to the moon and took a
couple of pictures by using just a bit left over battery from the
camera.
11/30/01 While doing some clean up, I took my telescopes out and set
them up for some prime focus photography testing. Since
I've never mounted SLR camera on to my scope before, I went to Adorama, NY, to get a T-mount for
it. I was surprised that the T-mount cost only $15. :) I
took some pictures both on the
setup and through the scopes . Quite amazing quality.
9/11/01 You think I would have mood to update the webpage
on that day? No, but some of my friends don't even get TV since the
towers went down. I created some video and
pictures just to keep them informed.
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6/30/01 I haven't update my web page for a loooong time. Too
busy with live. After I got my Nikon Coolpix 950, I went
back to Hong Kong for a couple of weeks and took a lot of pictures
back in May of 1999. Thereafter, I got married and now have a baby
girl. You know how busy it is with your first
child.What makes me suddenly update my page? I
got a soliciting email today telling me about a new website called
First Name
Domains that has a listing of my domain
wesley.net. I usually just delete all junk email without looking but
this one sounded interesting so I hopped on there and took a
look. This is their review of my site: Wesley is a
telescope enthusiast, whose site presents a question which has bothered us
since beginning the project. Why do pages stop being updated? Wesley
for example has three diary pages, but hasn’t updated since May 1999.
Where are you Wes? Hope nothing’s happened to you . . .
Well, just to let you know. I'm alive and well. :-)
![]() 5/15/99 After
over a week of trying all of the features of the Nikon Coolpix 950, I now have over 600 pictures to
sort out to create some new webpages. The latest attempt was to try to
hook up the Coolpix 950 with a Takahashi FS-102 refractor telescope.
![]() 8/14/98 I just came back from my Niagara Fall
weekend trip on Sunday. Pretty tired from the long drive. Anyway, I am
making a major renovation here. If you prefer to visit my old home page,
it's still here. Most
people who come to my page just want to see my pictures, they are still
under my Pictures
Page.
You might wonder why all of a sudden with all these changes. For one,
these pages haven't been really updated since I first learnt HTML
back in 1990. From time to time, I get messages from someone surfed onto
my page asking why they can't get to certain links. Well, I guess whoever
I link to no longer have their pages or they've moved or
something.
Anyway, that's not the primany reason that made me change my pages.
For the past couple of months, a lot of things happened. The one that
troubled me the most is my new landlords's harassment. Well, harassment
may be a little too strong a word to use, but I did feel like being
harassed.
The fiasco started when... Well, come back soon. I'm still working on
it.
(note to myself: don't forget to mention the big helper, NYC Rent Guidelines Board)
Besides the landlord fiasco, a friend of mine had an US reentry
problem from the Canadian border from the Niagara Falls weekend trip. More
detail later...
It's 8/14, and I just got my personal tax return done. (;^_^)
Did
you know if you use FedEx, you have to send your tax return to a different
address? Thanks to the IRS and
NYS Tax & Finance websites,
I got all of those information without calling a single number or waiting
on line. I also downloaded quite a few Forms that I needed also.
8/13/98
The page that about me
still haven't updated much. Again, my most popular Pictures Page is
still here. A lot of outtings and a lot my friends' pictures there.
Regarding my favorite sports, skiing, I dedicated a domain name http://www.wesley.net/pictures/skiindex.html
for it. Yea, go skiing! Y(^-^)Y
This domain is new and it has
nothing there yet though.
I still love to go camping during the summer, just my girlfriend
doesn't like it that much so I can't go too offen. My not too updated
Camping page is still here.
I created that page when I needed to prepare for a camping trip the very
first time few years ago. I found quite a few very useful links that like
to share with everyone. Besides Camping, I also like to do rollarblading
and stargazing . I also dedicated
a domain name http://www.stargazing.net/ for my
stargazing friends, but I've been quite busy and doesn't have anything
there yet.
I covered my hobbies for winters and summer, all
outdoors. Indoors hobbies? I'm glad that you ask. PlayStation! I collected
quite a bit of information about this game console. Tips, tricks, their CD
formats, their protection techniques, etc. This Playsataion page is also
one of the old not-so-updated one. There are way too many website
dedicated to this game console already. I don't think I'll ever update
it.
My most favorite hobby used to be around the
computer stuff, but I got to a point that my time is more important to
spend on other places. Once upon a time, I got so excited about a graphic
card that I purchased. It was a Matrox MGA Graphic card. I then
created a Page for the card.
It was one of my most loverable video card. But then, you know how
computer revolutions go. The card became very outdated. I'm not going to
update this page neither.
Enough of my stuff? Why don't you check out some
of my OLD
links.
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