It’s about 50 by 50 blocks. How did I make this, you ask? I took the actual Firefox logo, resized it to 50×50 pixels in Gimp, and reduced the colors pretty drastically. Then it just boils down to putting a grid over the image and turning the pixels into blocks. (Luckily, the Minecraft server is in Creative Mode, so I could freely pick blocks according to their colors, even though some of them are really rare when mined.)

A few weeks after preparing the lemon zest and Everclear concoction for the steeping, I got it back out of the basement:

Meanwhile, I had obtained and cleaned some small, reclosable lemonade bottles (after drinking their content, of course):

Straining the zest from the concentrated lemon extract reveals that it has transferred virtually all its color into the liquid and is now almost white. Fun!

Prepared some simple syrup (same amount as the lemon extract, i.e., about half a liter) in a pot and stirred it in. As you may have noticed, this changed the tint of the liquid a little: I used raw cane sugar, which unlike refined white sugar has a little bit of a color of its own. But hey! Trading color for flavor is fine by me.

Stirred it good, funneled into the bottles!

Finally, off into the freezer, and after a few hours… Prost!

I am planning on posting a new picture or two per week, depending on what photo opportunities I come across. I also installed a widget into the sidebar of this blog, showing you the latest and greatest additions to the photo blog.

We hope you’ll enjoy looking at the pictures as much as we liked taking them! Let us know what you think!

Champagne, ready to celebrate the arrival of 2012. In the background: This year’s Times Square New Year’s Eve “Ball”.

Woah, I can’t believe it! Project 365 is coming to a close! (Oh hey! This picture is intentionally similar to Day 1. Full circle!)

Happy New Year!

The penultimate photo (!) of Project 365 is an HDR panorama of Milpitas Civic Center. Milpitas City Hall is the big building to the right, and on the left you see the community center with the Christmas tree in front of it.

Make sure to check out the full-size picture. As an added bonus, you’ll see the same kid running through the photo twice — a neat “time lapse” effect of stitching multiple exposures together.

The flag of Santa Clara County at Mountain View City Hall was flown at half-staff today. Why, the Interwebs wouldn’t tell me. Anyone know? Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day is too far back, and besides it’d be the wrong one of the flags. Hmmm!

Look at the spiffy new reception area the contractors turned our prior mail room into! As far as I can tell, looks like it’s done! Of course, there’s all sorts of Mozilla decoration missing, but since Project 365 is nearing its end, I didn’t think I could wait that long

Turns out, flowers are not a lot easier to google for than bird names… but, anyway, this one seems to be an Asiatic Lily. Pretty!

Living near a chocolate store does come in handy when getting snacks for a long Christmas weekend. Nom nom nom. These bags are almost empty…

Christmas dinner: Everyone was having a jolly good time, except Donald, who felt it was “awfully warm in here”.