I’ve been using iWeb to create the new site and it is a fairly painless web tool to use but it would be nice if the templates didn’t have their own default image. This is especially annoying for the Blog type page since you’ve got to remember that it’s not just one page but three pages and you need to “fix” the image in all of them. This is even more annoying than not being able to change the template for an existing site or adding some hierarchy to the site. Also not every blog entry needs an image but the format of the page makes it look pretty weird without it.

The Joint Techs meeting at Fermilab (just outside of Chicago) has just finished up. A few interesting talks (and some fun ones too, check out Alan Whinery’s lightening talk). I got a chance to tour the Collider Detector Facility. The Detector itself is installed in the Collision Hall (behind some serious blast doors) but in a brilliant stroke of PR the Fermi folks took a photograph of the Detector just before it was installed and then got a company that makes billboards to produce a full size image of it which hangs in the Assembly Hall.

If you access my web site via IPv6 rather than IPv4 you will get slightly different content.

I decided that I wasn’t taking enough photos because it was a pest to carry around an SLR all the time so I’ve bought a pocket hiding Canon IXUS 850 IS (yes a Canon not a Nikon). I’m not convinced that a LCD panel can really replace an optical viewfinder even though every P&S camera except the Canons are built that way. In this trip I’ve also got the Nikon D70 but the shots in Vancouver are all taken with the Canon.