The Cramer Family

You know it’s funny, now that I’m out of school, I don’t have any time. At least not for stupid things. Instead I have lots of times for the things that matter. Like giving the boys baths, going to the Fire Station, and watching makeovers on TV with my wife. I love my family and [...]

Grandma Owen passed away. Her obituary was published in the paper today.
“Together Again”
I am writing this 14 January 2001. I read the obituaries in the paper and some are SO LONG and others don’t give the genealogical information that I feel someone might be looking for. So, after thinking about my age, health, [...]

When I interviewed at the U for Medical Informatics, the interviewer asked me “What’s the most useless program you’ve ever done?”. Well at first I thought he meant school projects, and of course they’re are a lot of those. But he then narrowed it to personal projects. For me, it’s probably the picture section on [...]

A lot of the blogs I’ve been reading today are doing an interesting experiment. Some of these people told me to:

Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

So here you go
“Once we understand compilers and machine-level code, we [...]

I thought it was funny when jay leno asked simple questions, and no one knows the answer, but it is even funnier when we do it, and it is in person. So yesterday we had a little time right before church, and we went around the city asking people what Easter was. Man. I would [...]

Photomosaics are cool. If you don’t believe me just take a look at some examples that I’ve found on the Web. Now isn’t that cool? I found a program that lets you choose your own source images and then create a photomosaic from them. I’m currently doing one of the boys, but it is going [...]

The album section is getting another facelift. I’ve enlarged all of the thumbnails to be a strict 100×100 across the board. This doesn’t always work for the representation of the image, but overall it is a good look. I’ve also created all the thumbnails in color and in black and white, which lets me [...]

Well……Good to hear from all of you. Hope you all enjoyed the conference
weekend. I was really glad we had the opportunity to see most of it, all
sessions expect sunday afternoon. The saturday morning was broadcast live here
at 7 o’clock at night, and then the priesthood session on sunday morning, at
then ya….It was really good to [...]

ASP.net is getting to be a lot cooler as I find out more about what I can do. I’m now dynamically creating the text headers for each blog entry. And it was really simple to do. Here’s how it’s done.

SizeF mySize;
Bitmap imageForText;
Font drawFont = new Font(”AvantGarde BK BT”,16,FontStyle.Bold);
imageForText = new Bitmap(500,30,PixelFormat.Format32bppPArgb);
Graphics myGraphics;
myGraphics = Graphics.FromImage(imageForText);
mySize = [...]

I can’t believe it’s already April. The weather is getting to be so nice which makes you just want to go outside, lie down and look up at the beautiful blue sky. That is unless of course you have twin boys named Owen and Braeden. Then there is no lying down when you are outside, [...]