I have a few good excuses! One I kinda fell off the blogging sphere, as in lost the urge to write anything. Two I have been busy trying to run a photography business and drum up some new clientele. Good news its doing pretty well! Three My brothers dog spilled a glass of water on my laptop!!! I could have killed him. Luckily once it dried out it worked just fine… But not before I had already replaced it with a even more awesome Laptop.

So you see Its been a crazy crazy time of the year. I have several weddings to shoot this summer along with a few Bellies and babies shoots. I love making soon to be moms feel like models for a day. To see there faces when the get the photos back is rewarding enough.

So My apologies to those who read this blog as I will be on and off of the blog though out the summer as it is a busy time fore me!

Oh and I figured out what was wrong with the featured posts here on this site. It happend to be the links that where directed to the photos for the fetured posts where pointed to the wrng flickr link. In order to fix it with in wordpress I had to go to the advanced feature/tab in the photo info and pull the link from that tab instead of the Edit Image tab. Once i updated those links everything was back and running like it should!

I am filing a complaint with the Hillsboro police , my HOA  and the company in which he works for the BBB and The mayor of Hillsboro Oregon, Plus KATU News Investagators.  What he did was highly illegal “predatory towing” which is against the federal law.  I was threaded while my and my 4 yr old in the vehicle. His words where ‘I will tow you even if you are in the car’ that is a threat to kidnap, not to mention slander and harassment. He refused to give us any information, what so ever when we asked for it. My brother tried to retrieve the information while almost getting run over by the guy. He also threatened to report me to the HOA as he took my number off my plaquer for my car window.  I am reporting him to everyone I know to as what he did was illegal, I did nothing illegal all I did was turn around on the street I live on and drop off my son.  I was not even parked there.

Thank you for listening to my complaint on a predator towing company. I needed to get this off my chest! I just hope he and the company learns there lesson from treatin people badly with my complaint. I am not one to take threats to me or my faimly with out a fight.

If you would like a updated Twitter page I would be happy to help you out with a customized background for $25. Just shoot me an email michelle (at) Thedigipix.com or comment on this post and I will contact you with more details.

I recently came across this site whom provides reviews and what not on different hosting companies webhostingrating.com. This may be what I need to get my butt in gear for finding a new web host provider. I really don’t want to pay as much as Yahoo! charges for the little customizations it allows and doesn’t allow with a httaccess file and wordpress. It really is a pain in the ass when you are trying to make a business website look professional. This file is a essential in helping your links function and look proper. With out access to it you will not be able to display pretty permalinks you’ll end up with a default like this ‘http://brokenperfection.com/blog/?p=123′ instead of ‘http://brokenperfection.com/blog/nameofpost’.

So if you are looking to use wordpress and want permalinks to display names instead of characters and numbers I suggest you look for a web host that does as Yahoo! does not allow access to it. It becomes a big pain in the Arse if nyou know what I mean.

I asked her why when I applied they where called another company and she just said I have no idea I’m sorry for the mix up. She knew what happened and didn’t bother to even ask what and where the link was that i applied at. You would think one would ask and fix that. There where several people there for the interview sad to say I was the only one who walk out of the office.

people are so desperate now for jobs they will put up with anything. I on the other had will not work for a company who lies to me the first 5 mins and greats me in the manner I was for the interview. Name of the company was Vector!

In reality hacking is a good thing. We would not be where we are today with out people hacking computer systems. Upgrades are created after someone somewhere hacked the system and found a flaw. It then gets reported and fixed.

This is where companies should come in and hire more hackers that way its done in a ethical way. It then becomes legit if a person is hired to hack a system for a company and fix the errors i.e. Ethical Hacking. or would you perhaps call them technical engineers. pretty much the same thing just different titles. At least its how i view things.

If one is looking for a job in this field its not easy. You have to have a passion for technology and lots of patients. As you do not hack a system in seconds or know how to with a snap of a finger. It takes knowledge. You either learn it on your own though vast research and reading or you go to school.

It takes one who wants to learn a position for IT Security and patients.

I passed the written test with flying colors. I missed two questions which I had marked right and then change the answer later to get it wrong. Kinda funny how that happens sometimes. Oh well not a big deal. I still got a ‘A’. Now from what I gathered in the assignment they state to NOT use Flash for any of the assignments.

Now my instructor who evaluated my photos said to use fill flash in the photo i took of George. To me that was not something that i would have told a student to do since the assignment tells you to not use flash. If I would have said i could I would have. So that part I do not agree with in the evaluation. She also seemed to be more interested in who I was than what the photos where and technical aspect of them. As she keep repeating that I had forgot to fill out the back of the folder providing more information about me.

I get it, fill out the info on the back! Only needs to be said once. Now  why that has anything to do with the technical aspect of the photographs is beyond me. As in reality it does not. I also got from the feedback that she can not read m y handwriting. Which is fine next time I will type it out and print it. Not a problem at all. I was disappointed in the evaluation as It seemed to me she was more of repeating what I was saying in my written comments, at least what she could read from my hand writing. I Hope unit two has more feedback.

My photos Hanging at Atomic Pizza!

Originally uploaded by Broken _Perfection

Today I hung some of my prints in a Local pizza restaurant called www.atomic-pizza.com/ Atomic Pizza 2150 N Killingsworth 97217. If you are in the neighbor hood go check it out.

NOTE: I am having a raffle! 10% of the proceeds go to a charity of the winners choice. The winner of the raffle can choose one 11X14 matted and framed print from my foliage collection. Please see thedigipix.com/ For more details on the raffle.

I also have prints for sale on my website where 5% of the proceeds from each print sold will go to one of three charities listed on my site. thedigipix.zenfolio.com/

Also for the month of April I am holding a raffle on my photography website. No this is not an April fools joke I really am. One lucky winner will get to chose a print from my Foliage collection and chose a charity to donate 10% of the proceeds brought in from the raffle.  So if you are interested in the raffle please visit Thedigipix.com. The raffle only cost a dollar so why not enter. You could even give the photo to our mother for mothers day instead of flowers that will just die in a couple days.

It seems that April and may have been big for me this year with the Exhibition at Atomic pizza and becoming published in a major Photography magazine. Whats next in store for me!

I was asked to feature some of my photographs of Flowers for the month of April. I am exited to hang several shots that are in my Portfolio on my Photography site http://thedigipix.com

They have asked for Business cards or postcards with my information on them to give to customers who are interested in my Photography. If I do not sell the prints I hang I will give them to relatives for Christmas gifts. I am even toying with a raffle of some sort on my blogs.

If you are local to the portland oregon area please stop by Atomic Pizza 2150 N Killingsworth 97217 have a slice and enjoy my photos. If you are not local you can still visit http://thedigipix.com and see my work there.