This was one tough printer to find!  Every place with the exception of a remote Office Depot is sold out.  Apparently the Epson Styuls Photo R300 is a little easier to come by, but not by much.  The Epson Stylus Photo R300M has the LCD preview display and front-panel media slots for CF, SD, etc.  Near as I can tell, they are exactly the same printer with the exception that the R300M comes with the LCD screen that you snap into the body of the printer.  The R300 appears to have all the connections, just lacking the display.

The reviews that I read of the printer states that it does an excellent job up to 8x10, surpassing that of store prints.  I firmly believe that it will be a printer that both my wife and I can use to great effect.  She'll throw CF cards from the Kodak DC4800 directly into the printer and print.  I'll touch up my high-end prints from my Canon EOS Digital Rebel in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 and print.

It was a tough decision between this printer and the Canon i960 Photo Printer, but the deciding factor was the media slots, LCD preview.  Furthermore, I've got a couple of friends, Ryan and Jim, who are professional photographers and they swear by the Epson printers.  I'll set it up tonight in hopes of putting my Epson Stylus Color 777 to rest - or at least some place we can use it for one-off document printing.

For the longest time, I've had name resolution issues here at Casa dé Hambone.  Last night as a part of putting Casa dé Hambone on the Web, I made sure that DNS was properly configured internally.  Casa dé Hambone is running on Windows Server 2003 with dynamic DNS, offering up one set of resolutions internally while Network Solutions offers up the public resolutions to the rest of the Internet.  Thus far, I've eliminated my name resolutions problems and am connecting by FQDN to my internal machines once again.

I spent some time tonight after everyone was fast asleep setting up .TEXT for www.casadehambone.com.  Many thanks to Scott not only for .TEXT but for helping me through my little gotdotnet.com download fiasco.  Current plan of record is to use www.casadehambone.com for my personal blogging and blogs.msdn.com/kevinha for my professional blogging.

With the obligitory “test” post out of the way and noticing that it's almost 1:30AM, I'm off to bed.

Okay, one more post and then off to bed ... http://www.casadehambone.com/gallery was the start of my amateur photo gallery.  Technically, it's still there but it would seem that .Text has somehow interjected itself into the request processing cycle and now you get an error trying to reach it.  I'll ping Scott tomorrow in hopes that we can get this cleared up.  Could be as simple as the galleries feature of .Text is expecting to use the gallery subdirectory with already exists due to the installation of nGallery.