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  • LOJACK FOR LAPTOPS! What a great idea! With Computrace LoJack For Laptops you'll be able to track a stolenlaptop anywhere! Every 53 seconds, a laptop is stolen - this recovery service enables law enforcement to re…

  • THE OUTCOME OF JULIA'S MEDICAL EXAM TODAY Hey everybody. First of all I want to say that this trip to Denver was a totally awesome experience. We made friends with some very sincere, great people. We all were present …

  • MY FAVORITE CAMCORDER OF ALL We do a lot of our product demonstrations ourselves, so I wanted a great camcorder. I didn't want one that was too large like a Canon XL series, and I did a lot of searching on the internet …

  • LIVE BROADCAST ON NOW FROM DENVER! NATE AND REBECCA AND JULIA AND JEFF ARE HERE!click here

  • we are in denver

    we will try to do a live webcast of the prayer so you can all join in live. in about an hour. tell others.

  • HANDS-ON PRAYER SESSION FOR JULIA IN DENVER! WE LEAVE TOMORROW TODAY!The power of blogs. You know I honestly think that our wedding was that much closer, and that much more intimate because so many of our close friends…

  • NOT JUST A RECESSION, BUT THE 2ND U.S. GREAT DEPRESSION I wish I didn't read so much, or remember so much, or know so much about the economy. Maybe then I could be in denial too, just like almost everybody else when it …

  • THIS TIP MAY HELP YOU WITH THE SNACKING URGE! If you want to snack, of course you do! Especially this time of year. Especially right after Thanksgiving with all the leftovers in the fridge. When you head down to the fri…

  • DIGITALPHOTOGRAPHERS.NET IS BACK UP WITH ME ON IT With an active membership of over 10,000 photography enthusiasts, my forums at "digitalphotographers.net" (a domain I own and operate) is filled with amazing, FREE…

  • THE GIFT CERTIFICATE TEMPLATE FOR PRINTING ON PHOTO PAPER - MAKING A TANGIBLE GIFT In merchandising, packaging is everything. You've probably noticed at every retailer you go to these days (even grocery stores) th…

  • FOR YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING CONVENIENCE! GFI is going to be entering the retail holiday season for our first time ever with products designed for - well - the whole family. I want you to tell your uncle at the next f…

  • WHEN I WALK BEHIND A HORSE, I LEAVE A LOT OF ROOM BETWEEN US... HERE'S WHY

  • LED ZEPPELIN'S "SONG REMAINS THE SAME" IS ON ITUNES! I saw this movie fourteen times in the theaters when it came out. Jimmy Page was just absolutely unreal. They just released previously unreleased songs, "The Oce…

  • OUR FIRST THANKSGIVING AT THE RANCHIn Canada, they celebrate Thanksgiving in October - before Halloween. But since we're americans, we of celebrated thanksgiving tonight with our awesome friends Shelly, Greg, Mark, Mark…

  • GREAT ARTICLE BY WARREN BUFFETT click here to read the rest of the article. I welcome your comments.

  • COZY DAY TO BE INSIDEIt hasn't started snowing heavily on the ranch yet, but I have got some really great projects to keep me busy that I am very excited about.We just started burning logs on the fireplaces here. I alwa…

  • READ THE NIKONIANS REVIEW OF THE WHALETAIL! CLICK HERE TO READ THE REVIEW!! J. RAMON PALACIOS - the Nikonians r…

  • GOOGLE ADWORDS DIDN'T WORK - AT ALL Ok I decided to do an experiment placing Google Adwords ads for one month. My mantra ever since I've started business is "don't advertise". This opinion came from the book, "Marketin…

  • I DID THIS - I WALKED ON FIRE DJ just did a post about an excerpt from Tony Robbin's new book, and it reminded me of the time that I went to Tony Robbin's "firewalk" experience at UC Irvine.It was so weird. You walk up …

  • I AM NOW ON FACEBOOK WELL I'VE BEEN FOR A WHILESend a friend request and unless we have some bad history between us, I'll let you in!http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=546861469

  • NONE OF THE ABOVE! THE BACHELOR REJECTS THEM ALL! Not that I watch this show, it's just that the Missus does so every once in a while I walk by and catch wind of what's going on in the background, and one night when we …

  • HOLY SMOKES! 12 MEGAPIXELS AT 30 FRAMES PER SECONDTHIS IS THE FUTURE OF WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY!!!!Tim Halberg just posted a comment under my tennis sequence introducing me to the RED CAMERA$17,500 for body only, and you ha…

  • THIS IMAGE IS CALLED, "LIFE IMITATES ART" - CREATIVE INSPIRATIONWhen I was a wedding photographer, around this time of year I would be completely creatively exhausted. So it's fun to hear from OTHER photographers about …

  • SOON TO BE SEEN IN THOUSANDS OF CAMERA STORES WORLDWIDE! As you can imagine we are all stoked here to be picked up by one of the world's largest distributors of photography products and accessories. Now with the Wiscon…

  • IT'S WORKING, BUT THE DATA IS NOT WHAT I WAS EXPECTING We've been moving our corporate focus into the amateur photography market. This involves producing lower-cost items for cameras that are non-professional. As menti…

  • THE NEW STYLE OF PLAYING TENNISI've been playing tennis ok shut up for 30 years and I think I today at 46 could easily beat myself when I was playing junior tournaments before I got into BMX. The reason is this - the ne…

  • GFI AND OMEGASATTER TOGETHER AT LAST!~THIS MEANS THE ORIGAMI AND PUFFER WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THOUSANDS OF RETAILERS FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON!I have been friends with Mike Hullett, Tamron's Executive Vice President, for a v…

  • WE SAW BEE MOVIE. HERE'S MY REVIEWIt was hilarious. We wanted to see, "American Gangster" with Denzel and it was playing like 45 minutes later so rather than wait we thought, why not see Bee Movie.This film is hilariou…

  • A NEW JAG THAT DOESN'T LOOK SO "EIGHTIES"Jaguars have been out of vogue for a while now. They were hot in the 80's and 90's, but they kept the designs and body styles for far too long. The last XJ was an all-aluminum b…

  • JUST LIKE TYPING ON YOUR DESKThe new Apple Keyboard is this beautiful, flat aluminum keyboard that has such a satisfying keystroke and lays so flat that you don't have to lift your wrists up awkwardly to type.You're doin…

  • JOE BUISSINK NOW OFFERING FINE-ART PRINTS AND PRIVATE ONE-ON-ONE MENTORING I am proud to call Joe Buissink a personal friend. What a phenomenal photographer and human being. When it came to having somebody officiate ou…

  • ENTERPRISING VENTURE I am a huge fan of anybody who is resourceful and ambitious. This is why I admire people like Dane Sanders and DJ and Amy and Janey, and Jessica Claire with the Shootsac... people who work hard thro…

  • POLARIZING TEST OF TOLERANCE TOPIC FOR THE DAY For abortion to be illegalized, the U.S. Supreme Court of five out of the nine justices (each appointed for a lifetime) would have to be pro-life. The current law is that ab…

  • POLARIZING QUESTION OF THE DAY. IN THE UNITED STATES,IF ABORTION WERE TO BE MADE ILLEGAL, WHO WOULD MAKE THIS HAPPEN, AND HOW?What would be the steps? How would the new law be carried out? Who makes the decision? Th…

  • ROBERT37 OF FLORIDA - HERE'S A DETAILED ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION:Under the first amendment, you cannot be sued for stating 1) your opinion or 2) the truth. It's when you state that something which isn't true actually is …

  • GFI WELCOMES TIFFANY YODER TO OUR SMALL FAMILY OF PROFESSIONALSIt's amazing to watch someone's career grow by leaps and bounds. This former Miss Football Hall of Fame went on to become not only Miss Lightsphere, but Mis…

  • I HAVE DECIDED ON A SYMBOL FOR MYSELF AS A PERSONYou know how Prince has his own "symbol"? It looks like this (right). It invokes thoughts of well, mysticism, um - homosexuality (not that it's wrong, nor is it a choice…

  • POLARIZING TRAFFIC BOOSTING QUESTION OF THE DAYWho is more educated and well-informed, liberals or conservatives? In general?

  • WINDOWS AND MAC AT THE SAME TIME ON THE SAME SCREEN The big hesitation for a Windows user to not switch to the awesome Macintosh system is because they're afraid of losing all of that software. But unique to Mac, you ca…

  • SO CUTE Our assistant Lauren brought her daughter (and our flowergirl) Riley to the ranch today. She's a 14 months old and she is such a character. For some reason she just gets transfixed on me and STARES. Like she f…

  • STORMY DAY IN KELOWNAToday was so weird. I woke up this morning hearing howling wind at speeds of up to (they said) 50mph! So I looked out of the theater and our patio furniture blew all around the property. Missy lit…

  • THIS IS REBECCA'S DAUGHTER JULIA As you all know by now, I am arranging a trip for Nate from Ohio - a Christian who practices healing by prayer and the laying of hands, to visit Rebecca's daughter Julia. Julia has a he…

  • THIS MOVIE WAS THE BEST FILM I'VE SEEN IN A LONG, LONG, LONG TIME. BY FAR We saw it twice. We saw it in Seattle and it was so amazing that we had to see it with our film-producer friend Adam. Adam is writing a script …

  • HEALING BY LAYING OF HANDS A very remarkable situation has presented itself with the comments here on the blog. We have our very impassioned atheist "Rebecca" who has this beautiful daughter with a chronic health issue a…

  • IF YOU WANT TO DO HTML SUPER EASY - READ THIS!I really was not a fan of Macromedia "Dreamweaver". The interface was too busy but I felt like I was stuck with it. I've really been wanting something super simple as a WYS…

  • A CRISP FALL DAY AT THE RANCH Being that Twin Creek Ranch is a working training facility, there's a little community of people hanging around the barn and tack room all the time. Outside of the tack room is a little squ…

  • DOES THE BIBLE REALLY SAY THAT GAYS SHOULD BE KILLED"I briefly skimmed through the comments and noticed that several questions were brought up concerning homosexuality in the Bible. Here are the Hebrew translations of Le…

  • MY COMMENTARY ON THE LATEST BLOG WILDFIREI am for complete tolerance and acceptance of all people, wholeheartedly, with no judgement or bias. Just complete, unconditional acceptance and mutual respect. Mutual respect i…

  • KRISTEN FINALLY GOT RID OF HER FORD EXPLORER With nearly 200,000 miles, Kristen Alexander's Green Ford Explorer has gone out to pasture. She often asks me for advice, and I always say the same thing... save your money -…

  • LINDSAY DID NOT LIKE SUSHILindsay does not like catsup or mayonnaise. She had never eaten shrimp. So when Melissa relentlessly demanded that Jesse and Lindsay come to the sushi bar with us, I think they went just to sh…

  • QUESTION OF THE DAY: Is homosexuality a choice? And if so, is it wrong? And if it is wrong... why?(ed note: when traffic spikes, so does my revenue!)

  • SOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPYWe are back at the ranch and as soon as I arrive, there is a combination of excitement and relaxation. I'm excited to see the horses, and Lindsay and Jesse and then I just can't wait to go inside and u…

  • GOLD IS AT A MIND-BLOWING $835/OZTHE CANADIAN DOLLAR JUST HIT THE HIGHEST LEVEL IN HISTORYEvery day I look at the international currencies, the US dollar drops another percentage point against the Canadian dollar. And g…

  • QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS YOUR RELIGION AND WHY IS YOURS MORE CORRECT THAN OTHER RELIGIONS?Let 'er rip! (this makes my traffic spike)

  • WOW THAT WAS NICE OF DWF AND JULIE HILL!At digitalweddingforum.com they put up our wedding video and for some reason it loads faster and is larger than I've ever seen before. It says it's a shockwave file, but it looks …

  • GOOGLE'S ADSENSEI read an article in I think Newsweek about how people were actually making a living using "Google's Adsense" program. It says if your site has a lot of traffic, you can get revenue. I have no idea if i…

  • IF YOU ARE OVERWEIGHT, REFINED SUGAR IS PROBABLY THE SINGLE CULPRITHoly smokes do you know how much refined sugar the average person in the U.S. consumes in a year? 135 freaking pounds!Dude, if I brought you 135 pounds …

  • THIS IS SO TRUE!!!!! Not that I ever watch "Oprah", but this article on CNN caught my eye. It totally makes perfect sense.Basically, it says to find a really great relationship, you need to be more "you". Most people, …

  • NOW THAT ELIZABETH HASSELBECK IS GONE, LET'S HAVE OUR OWN MINI "VIEW" This girl was so talked about and controversial because of her steadfast support of the war and the current administration. Now she is on maternity le…

  • ORIGAMI COMPARISON IMAGESTonight in Seattle, we did some specific test images with the Canon EOS5D, 580EXii flash and the Origami in "Vertical" position. I've been shooting with the Origami and the Puffer a lot, because…

  • THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOODHere in Seattle, we're on the 24th floor, and on the corner so we had a really cool panoramic view from our living room and the terrifying walk-out balcony.I knew the Four Seasons Hotel and Res…

  • A WAY TO SOLVE THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT (read article)Two burglars are apprehended near the scene of a crime and are interrogated separately by the police. The police know these two goons did it, but they don’t know how,…

  • DON'T READ THIS DEPRESSING COMMENT FROM L.A.'S TOP REAL ESTATE GURUDon't click here.

  • FAREWELL, LOS ANGELES!We have had such a whirlwind trip. Vancouver, Seattle, New York, Santa Barbara, L.A. We're just about to leave for our home in Seattle and last night, DJ and his girlfriend Allison, Denis Reggie a…

  • THIS IS DENZEL WASHINGTON'S HOUSEHe was just a guest on "The Tonight Show" and he was talking about trick or treaters too. It just makes me think, kids just walk up to his house and say trick or treat? I wonder how the…

  • THIS IS JAY LENO'S HOUSEI was just listening to Jay Leno's monolog and he was talking about trick or treating in his neighborhood. So I did an internet search and you can find his address and a google maps aerial photo …

  • OH MY GOODNESS DJ WHY ARE YOU SO WEIRD?DJ just sent me this photo showing this new clock he got that shines on his wall. Obviously he is excited about it.

  • THE CANON 40D I've been playing with the Canon 40D for a few days. I got the package with the kit lens, (28-135mm lens) and it's a really good value for under $1,500.00. The lens is the metal barrel higher quality opti…

  • WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU COULD PREDICT THE FUTURE? I had a dream one time a long time ago that I got a copy of the newspaper for a day into the future. I had the sports section, so I could see who was going to win games…