Entries from July 2008 ↓

Just over nine months ago, I got my first Palm Centro, shortly after it came out on Sprint. It was just what I was looking for, and fortunately my phone from work was with Sprint. Unfortunately, I’m now on my fourth.

When I switched jobs back in May, I had to get my own cell account with Sprint. Well, work would have done it for me, but I wanted it in my own name for a few reasons… I don’t want to have to switch again unless I want to (not that I plan on leaving this job in the foreseeable future), and I figured after some of the junk I’ve been through the last couple years it is one way to help re-establish my credit again.

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Ok, being sick this weekend has ben a joy. But one good thing to come of it, I’ve been going through my pinned posts from Bloglines and cleaning things up a bit. During one brief period of consciousnous early this morning I came back across the following sites that let you play around with photos.

wanokoto - this Japanese site (with a bit of off kilter English translation) takes your photo and ages it to look like it was taken back in the 40’s or something. The interface is bout as simple as you can get, you browse for a local file or plug in the url of a picture that’s already online and click the “convert” button. Here I took a panoramic shot of the Capital from my recent DC trip, and here’s how it turned out. To save the converted photo you need to right-click and save the image.

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I… have no idea.

Why does anyone write a blog?

Ok, there are lots of reasons. But what about the ones like this site, where it’s just my personal crud. When it comes to ranting, yea, it can be cathartic to write stuff, get it out there. We all would like to have that place where we can just let ‘er rip. But the stuff that really eats at you, the things you reaaaaaaaly want to say - you can’t. Can you?

At least not on a site where anyone knows it is you.

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So yesterday I had some issues accessing my site here, and my photo site. I was getting internal server errors, or finally after four-five minutes of trying, the page would load. These were the only sites of the number of sites I host that seemed to be having a problem…. which led me to believe it wasn’t really a sever issue per se.

After trading a couple emails with the folks at Dreamhost, they helped me track down what may have been the problem, my photos site was getting hit with an unusually high number of connections. Three IP addresses were responsible for nearly 3000 connections to my photo gallery yesterday. 74.6.8.100 had 389 connections, 65.55.212.161 had 720, and 64.1.215.162 had a whopping 1724!

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Since I was out in VA last weekend, I was not part of the record crowds going to see The Dark Knight. I decided to go to a place right near work tonight to catch it.

It started out with a bit of good action, rolling into some things that you can tell are laying the ground work for the big clash between Joker and Batman. Then about an hour into the 150 minute epic, right when we are going to get to see the first real confrontation between Bruce Wayne and Rachel, everything goes dark.

Now, before those who haven’t seen it accuse me of giving away the story - or those that did see it get too confused, let me clarify. The movie didn’t just go black, the entire theater did. Well, at least until the emergency lights kicked in. Granted, I didn’t know it was the whole theater until a couple minutes later when I headed out to the lobby to see what was up.

After about another 10-15 min the employees started letting folks know they were giving refunds (actually vouchers) and aking folks to head out. Last I heard as I was heading to the car was that they were not expecting the power to be back on for 60 to 90 minutes. It was a fairly major problem, power seemed to be out for blocks around the theater. Course, probably won’t find out what happened… with the power.

I’ll have to try and catch the movie again tomorrow.

Ok, got back to DC last night, and got ready to do some sightseeing today. The following is notes I wrote towards the end of the day, just a stream of thoughts during my journey back home and later typed up.

7/21/2008, about 7:00PM I covered a lot of ground in DC today. Got off the Metro a bit after 10 this morning and turned West down the mall, heading towards the Washington Monument. It’s free to go up in it, but by the time I was there (bout 10:45-11am), the only times available were after 6pm. I think you can reserve spots ahead of time, good to know if I ever when I go back again someday. From there it was to the WWII memorial, down the reflecting pool and on to the Lincoln Memorial.

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