http://www.timandmarina.com/wp Welcome to the Barnes family website! Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:11:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We drove down in my Acura—it's comfortable for long distances. The purpose was to attend a party given in honour of Donald and Melany's baby: Naomi. We stayed for a week or so, and it was good to see everyone again. Towards the end, I developed a bronchial infection and was ... http://www.timandmarina.com/wp/2008/07/21/back-from-a-trip-to-la TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design—it's a community and a conference, held in Monterey each year. Their tag line is "ideas worth spreading", and they publish videos of many of the short (under 20 minute) talks from the conference each year. This one is about music, and shows some ... http://www.timandmarina.com/wp/2008/05/26/music-for-everyone I came across this (thanks, Stephanie!) this afternoon: it's a group of people who get together to explore home-made musical instruments, many of them combinations of mechanical and electrical or electronic components. Some of them are played in conventional ways, some make music under computer control, and some combine multiple ... http://www.timandmarina.com/wp/2008/05/24/music-is-more-than Sadly, we don't have many pictures of ourselves sailing Yamkat—our 30' Richard Woods catamaran. Here are a few from our very first sail, when we all had a chance to try her out, and the boys enjoyed taking the helm, and exploring the huge trampoline forward, from which they could ... http://www.timandmarina.com/wp/2008/05/10/yamkat-and-family Between San Francisco and Santa Cruz, on the Pacific coast, lies the Ana Nuevo State Natural Reserve. It's home to a big colony of elephant seals—in fact the largest colony in the world. Every few years we go out there to see them—it's different at each season of the year, ... http://www.timandmarina.com/wp/2008/05/10/ana-nuevo-and-the-elephant-seals When we were in Seattle, we tried to spend some time on the water, with a trip to Bainbridge Island, and a tour around the harbor and through the locks. We also visited the Boeing facility in Everett, but they forbade photography, so we went to the Boeing museum closer ... http://www.timandmarina.com/wp/2008/04/24/seattle-a-few-pictures These pictures are quite old - I've just installed a new Mac for myself, with Apple's Aperture for image management. I've been using a combination of iView (now owned by Microsoft) and Nikon's Capture NX, but Aperture is very well integrated into the Mac environment, and I have a plug-in that ... http://www.timandmarina.com/wp/2008/04/18/yet-more-pictures-from-the-past When we were living in England, I followed the Volvo circumnavigation race - big powerful boats doing up to 500 miles in 24 hours under sail. They visited Portsmouth, and we went down to see them and take some pictures. This boat is the Brazilian entry, who came third in ... http://www.timandmarina.com/wp/2008/04/17/a-few-new-pictures The site was down briefly - sorry! What happened was that my domain was set to renew automatically, but it didn't. Instead of getting a message from the registration company, they just unlinked the site. Thanks, Beachcomber. Not. Anyway, it's back up now, following a simple PayPal transaction.  http://www.timandmarina.com/wp/2008/03/30/site-abberation A bit of a rush job - it's challenging to get all the pictures edited, organized and posted, and I think some of my edits might not have made it through to the posted jpegs, but here they are anyway. The main page is here. Over time I'll try to get ... http://www.timandmarina.com/wp/2008/03/23/new-zealand-pictures-are-up