Kini’s Place is my personal weblog where I write about the things that affect my life, my family, and everything else I feel like. (Me! Me! Me!). It started primarily as a way to keep a diary or journal about the things that happen in our daily/weekly/monthly lives around here.

This website is powered by Wordpress and employs the following plug ins to help make my life easier:

1. fArc lists my archives in a much more friendly manner.
2. Dofollow disables “no follow” from comments.
3. Comment Timeout is currently set to 14 days.
4. Akismet because spam comments really suck.
5. Commentluv to help spread the linky love.
6. Popularity Contest because sometimes you just want to know!
7. Sideblog to add little asides which are not enough for a “real” post.
8. Twitter Tools to add tweets to my blog or tweet about my blog.
9. Subscribe to Comments so you can keep up on really hot discussions.
10. Flickr Photo Gallery to easily add your photos to my posts.

About the photographs on this website:

• My photographs are captured primarily with my Canon Digital Rebel XT. Although, occasionally I do grab my daughter’s Nikon Coolpix L2 or use my Motorola Razr camera phone in a pinch.
• Currently, I use the lame lens that came in the kit when I purchased it. I aspire to someday get a kick-butt lens to shoot greater distances one of the following lenses:
  • Canon 50 mm 1.8 II
  • Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III USM (Brand New Christmas 2007. Thank you, honey!)
  • Canon EFS 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 (came with the camera)
  • Canon EF 35-80mm f/4-5.6 III (came with the film camera!)
• Most of my photos are edited with Photoshop Elements and managed with the iPhoto software also utilizing iPhoto Library Manager since I have multiple libraries, not all of which are on my MacBook Pro, but rather on a separate hard drive.
• I would LOVE to get my hands on a scintillating copy of Photoshop CS3 (or even CS2)! Alas, I am broke.
• I would also LOVE also to get one of those image stabilization lenses for my camera, but those are super expensive.