There will not be a #158 because it is a photo that was already covered. (Moved up quite a few ranks much faster than I thought it would)

photo #157 is:

This is a photo from the only time I was the paid photographer at a wedding. The bride was the sister of one of Danielle’s coworkers and needed to work on a budget. Working that wedding taught me that I enjoy photographing weddings a lot more when I’m not the official photographer.

And now for a completely different climate in today’s Top 200 Photos.

photo #159 is:

This is from my Honeymoon outside of Cancun, Mexico.  I love finding examples of American companies in other countries so I had to take a photo of this McDonald’s in Playa del Carmen.  While we always make sure to eat local cuisine in whatever country we’re in, we also sometimes try out the American chains to see how they differ.  McDonalds in England, for example, out-mayonaises the USA.  And TGIF in England has ham rather than bacon on their potato strips.  And the Pizza Hut sauce over there tastes weird. We did not eat at this McDonald’s in Mexico.

We stay at Cornell for this entry in the Top 200 Photos.

photo #160 is:

This has to be in the top 3 most depressing photos I took at Cornell. There’s a certain beauty in the photo, especially now that I don’t have to deal with that weather anymore, but just remembering trudging up that hill in that unforgiving weather is enough to make me happy to have graduated.

Back to Cornell for today’s Top 200 Photo

photo #161 is:

Ah, the Cornell Arts Quad. It’s where everyone plays frisbee. It’s where a large portion of Cornellians go to class. I was really into panoramas at Cornell. If I had the technology in today’s software back then, I probably would have done even more of them.

I’ve been using web browsers since Internet Explorer 1 and Netscape Navigator 3. I’ve blogged about my browser history quite a bit. I’ve ended up using Chrome on all my platforms. It works on Linux and Windows and I can have my bookmarks synced up across all those platforms. Now, I’m not a huge user of bookmarks. From my earliest days back in the 1990s when I used to perfectly curate my bookmarks into folders and subfolders to the mid-2000s when Epiphany and Firefox implemented tags on bookmarks, pretty much anything I’ve ever bookmarked has gone into a status of “out of sight== out of mind”. In fact, the only way I’ve been able to effectively use bookmarks is to use the space under the address bar to store them so I can see them. This is what Chrome looks like on my machines:

Once again, it’s  a heavy focus on my 365 project.  Photojojo is  a photo time capsule that sends you your most interesting photos (according to flickr) from the previous year so you can enjoy them again

I started using KDE in November of last yea r so I figured that I’d give an update on how things are working for me four months in.  First off, KDE 4.6.x has not yet hit the official Fedora repositories.  Since I like to yum upgrade or preupgrade from release to release, I try to stay with the official repos and RPMFusion.  So no KDE 4.6 for me.  At this rate, it doesn’t seem that it’s going to make it until around Fedora 15.  But, if that means they iron out any extra bugs, that’s fine with me.  So, with that said, let’s get to the info.

Another Photojojo photographic time capsule. See it online here and get your own if you want. This shows you your most interesting photos (according to flickrs algorithms) from 1 year ago. Mine this time focus largely on my 365 Project.

Again, just a small blog post to document the video games I played with throughout the year to make it easier to do a recap at the end of the year.

Assassin’s Creed II (30 min) - I booted this sucker up to get some of the easy trophies I’d missed while playing the game like the Red Light District and Ivory and Ebony trophies. Reviewed it here

Assassin’s Creed: Brootherhood (30 min) - I wanted to see what the online gaming portion of this game was like. Discovered one of the things you give up when playing games long after they come out is that it’s harder to play online. It took a long time for the servers to find people to put into our games. The games were fun. It’s very hard to hide and act like an NPC and also kill people so it’s a fun challenge. Not fun enough to get me addicted, though. Previously reviewed here

When the Top 200 Photos started, my 200th most viewed photo had about 350 views. This one has 380, which is almost insane. After all -

photo #162 is:

Which is just another candid photo of Mai smiling - technically smirking. This time it was at the 4th of July BBQ