Kleenex works too. Also consider holding a big sheet of white paper in your lap to bounce some flash up.

Good article. Great discussion of copyright here from someone else who knows what they are talking about: http://www.danheller.com/model-release-copyrights.html

Yes, I own theboykos.com for our family stuff (mostly just for email, really) and traingeek.ca for my train photos and blog. Oh, and planegeek.ca and maybe one or two more if I think about it. Domain names are cheap!

Lightroom says I have a little over 43,000 photos.

With light frost it is a great trick to hit the windshield washers... works like a charm.

Me neither but I default to google.ca - perhaps only google.com does that.

You know there's more than two types of smartphones out there, right? Is there anything out there for Blackberries?

I've been using TriggerTrap for a few months now and I really like it. If you complain about the price, go look at how much a remote trigger costs for your camera and you will see that they are competitive and provide a lot more value for the price. The intervalometer alone has been worth it for me.