Just signed up for this neat flickr-related service, Photojojo’s Time Capsule.  Twice a month they send you some photos that you took a year ago.  Here are the photos from  my first email from them, it’s pretty neat.  If you want to see what it looks like in the email, go here.

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Going over photos that were moving from one views group to another on flickr, I discovered this photo that I really love.  I love how his head is cocked, I love the idea of a bird with a built-in shovel, and I love how sharp the photo came out.

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Our good friend Jennifer Bonass got married a couple weekends ago.  The wedding was out in Chestertown, Maryland - out near Ocean City.  Since there’s only one bridge to get there, we left early to make sure we’d get there on time.  We got there insanely early (1-1.5 hours early) so I decided to take some photos of the setup to pass the time.  Turned out to be a great thing I was there early because the official photographer was with Jen and they were at another location so I was the only one to get these shots.  Here are some of my favourites.

A while back I unveiled a web utility for telling when it was time to move a photo from one flickr views group to another.  It got tons of hits.  Then I switched my server and it all stopped working.  Beej had gone to a new framework for traversing the XML and had some problems porting it over.  Finally got everything fixed up over the weekend and I can come out with version 0.3!

I first mentioned my participation in the 365 project back in May.  Ever since then I’ve gone back and forth between filler photos and some of my best creative work.  I’ve been trying as much as possible to explore different techniques and try to be as creative as possible.  Here are my best shots since May.

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While looking up driving directions on Google Maps from Barcelona, Spain to Madrid, Spain, I clicked the option for “walking” directions out of curiosity’s sake.  This is the quickest route they gave me for walking.  I don’t think that’s the most efficient way to go.  First of all, I can’t walk on water.  Second, why not go straight over land.  That appears to be a shorter route.  What makes this hilarious is the statement in yellow:  “Walking directions are in beta.  Use caution - This route may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths.”  Missing is, “We may send you walking over water.”

I don’t even remember what I was going to search for in Google, but here’s what came up when I typed “why”.

This is becoming a huge “sport” on the net - to see what Google gives you when you type something into the search.  It’s the first time I got something fun.

A few weeks ago I did an update to Fedora 11 using preupgrade.  Nothing really broke other than iPods.  My shuffle doesn’t work as well, but I’m working on fixing that.  I also think that the updates are less annoying-looking and are more informative.

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I finally finished Final Fantasy IX.  Took me a little over 30 hours.  I didn’t do all the side quests, but that’s more of Dan’s thing.  The characters I played with the most ended up at about level 52 - if that tells you anything.  Except for a little bit when I was trying to learn some skills, I didn’t do any grinding.  That’s the big difference from when I played Final Fantasy VI as a kid.  I don’t have quite as much time.  Whenever I got to a complicated dungeon, I consulted an FAQ.  So what are my final thoughts?  Here’s a rambling, stream-of-conciousness review of the game after finishing it up.

Just like Dina, Daniel has a great smile.  This is pretty easy to capture because he’s almost always laughing.  He has a great attitude towards life and you can’t help but smile when you’re around Daniel.