There's gonna make a line of action figures based off of the "cult move" Napoleon Dynamite.
Ever since that postcard link… I've been thinking about it..
Anyway, Two new albums.
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There's a sniping game my friend Andrew likes that features the Tower Bridge. I tried to cover the angles from the game. ;-)
The london tower by the way isn't a tower, it's a castle.
–Francis
I don't know if the photographer or the web-designer in me likes this more. It's just neat.
(click on a photo to zoom in, click off a photo to zoom out, some photos are more then just photos, hit space to zoom around — tab has something to do with the space… just play with it and enjoy)
Matthew Mahon
http://gallery.roborooter.com/peopleothers/DSCN5268
http://gallery.roborooter.com/pillow_in_the_light
Let me get this out of the way. The Third Globe
Forgive my snippy captions, My heart just isn't in it today. Also if you look at the England gallery you might notice this comes before Westminster and Trafalgar Square, I missed this one, and the next one too. I'm trying to keep some semblance of chronological order.
So I found this site called digg. It's neat, the community submits links and rates them, not a bunch of editors. So the crap you find there is picked by your peers, switches the blame to everybody instead of specific people.
Anyway, I found a neat setup for iTunes playlists. It produces a nice mix of music you haven't heard with music you like. I have three different playlists total and varied a little from the suggested ones.
The first one has music that I haven't played more then 5 times and haven't rated 1 or 2 stars (which mean I think they suck). It's limited to 300 songs chosen randomly. The second has stuff I've played more then 3 times, has more then 2 stars (3 and above), and I haven't played in the last week. It's limited to 200 songs chosen by least recently played.
The 3rd playlist is just a combination of both. This playlist will play every song (unless I've already rated it a 1 or 2). Songs will randomly show up 5 times and if I haven't rated it at least 3 stars I won't see them again. If I have rated them at least 3 stars they'll be thrown into a nice rotating list of songs I like. The mix is 3 parts list one (or Infuser) and 2 parts list two (or Sprinkler).
It works well.
Ohh and until I fix it the random image is broken. I'll figure it out later I don't feel like it now. I'm in the middle of moving everything, so stuff might break in the process. *shrug* What ever.
–Francis
So this guy creates a hack that dumps the firmware on the new ipod's through it's little pizzo speaker. (The one that makes the chirps and beeps, not the head phones) He wrote a computer program to listen and turn it back into binary. He didn't know enough to get the firewire/usb port to work, but this served his purpose.
So some guy responds with, "Could you please stop being silly and instead try and do something worth while. We're still looking for a cancer cure, aids cure and countless other things we need today."
And then for the entire reason I'm making this post, some guy responded and took the words right out of my mouth.
–Francis
Oh and I promised I'd do one of these didn't I. Westminster and Trafalgar Square Make sure to page all the way to the end, otherwise you'll miss Big Ben and such.
And I feel I should post a link to the london tube map.
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Maybe I'll mark one up and have links to my photos or something.
Jason reorganized my sidebar for a prototype of a redesign he was working on (one you might see sometime soon) and I liked it so much I decided to just use it now and not wait until we work out the next version. It really is organized much better then it used to be.
Also, I forgot to include another England Trip album on my last post so you get two this time.
House on Harrow on the Hill and St. Paul's Cathedral.
Oh man I loved that Cathedral. They wouldn't let me take photos of the inside so you're only going to get the outside and from the dome. The paintings and sculptures were amazing. I figured it probably took 10–15 years and hundreds of people to complete the building but it only took 5, good planning I guess. If you goto london go here. Trust me.
–Francis
Well I finally anotated Avebury. I'm sure taking my sweet old time with these photos aren't I?
Enjoy. (Click the Avebury link above.)
–Francis
(That's what I get for not spell idiot checking my text. Fixed now.)
My good friend Sarah got a new camera the other day. It's really neat. It's tiny, fast, has loads of features and kicks the crap out of my camera by far.
I'd really like to get a new one eventually but my good ole' Nikon still has some life in it. So all the photos I take this winter in England will be with it.
More importantly she took pictures of me. Hanging out in little china and the three of us (Matt, Sarah and myself) at liberty diner.
I don't get my haircut a lot, nor do I shave often. So by popular request here's me.
I also had some other photos on the camera. I stuck them up in a gallery.
–Francis
With the slip of my finger I destroyed my gallery. And due to some freak backup problem (Test your backups!) which I have yet to solve, I don't have all the photos backed up.
Fortunately (and this is going to sound bad) none of mine were lost. Why is that fortunate? (my friends who lost photos are really wondering I'm sure) I'm pretty sure everyone (except me) has their own copies of their photos.
At the moment I'm in the process of fixing the gallery, I was able to save a few albums that didn't quite get backed up. I'm pretty sure all the photos are there but they'll have to be renamed and retitled and everything. You have no idea how sorry I am.
Oy.
I've been putting off figuring out my incremental backup solution. It would allow me to go back to any time (like every day this week, every month, and once a month forever) and get my backups from any date.
Bah — one stupid slip of the finger.
–Francis
