I recently bought a new camera. Upon reflection I realized that this is my 4th Canon camera. I learned how to take pictures on a Kodak 126 camera. I was hooked on photography from the beginning. I saved up my money.…
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Countries I have been to as of 2008:
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States I have been to:
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Visit https://xevio.us/travel-map/ for my current map.
The new system update for the iPhone is now out. One of the new features is you can add bookmarks to the front screen, a.k.a the springboard. The graphics that appear on the home screen are 57×57 pixel PNG files. You put the png file somewhere on your your server.…
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My mother recently passed on a book to me called Cross by James Patterson. The main character is Alex Cross. I am near the end of this novel. It’s a good story but I kept feeling like I was coming in during the middle of the story.…
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I think I finally have gotten my Apache problems settled down. I’m not sure what set it off. I made the mistake of updating the system software with a security patch. That updated PHP. Since I am running a custom PHP, I had to recompile and install PHP again to get libGD loaded.…
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I’m spending the day today updating my server’s software with numerous updates that have come out from certain vendors. For both Drupal and Squirrel, I’m glad I was slow to update because both had two updates in the intervening time. Once I get my updates current I can look at my spam filters.…
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I just returned from a short business trip. It was just a quick overnight trip to Lubbock. Usually on such a trip I grab two bags; one for my clothes and one for my laptop. Along with my laptop comes a sundry collection of cables.…
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When I was in Middle School I once by chance happened upon an episode of the Empire Strikes Back on the Radio. It was really cool. It had a few recognizable character voices but not a full cast. I remember specifically the scene with R2-D2 in the bog on Degoba and Luke was talking dialog that was unnecessary for the filmed version.…
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The FOX TV show Prison Break came to Arlington to do some filming. They used the back of my work’s building to simulate a rough neighborhood in Panama. They some of the signs to Spanish. The stop sign became “Alto”. Some of the other signs already were in Spanish like the beer billboards.…
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I just returned from a screening of Star Trek Menagerie. This is the original Star Trek pilot from 1966 called “The Cage” that was later carved up into a two part episode once the series was picked up. In this version they went back to the source negatives and remastered them.…
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I had a little run in with a manhole last night. I was turning from Abram street onto Oak street in Arlington when I heard a very bad sound (technical term). The pitch of the engine changed, my dashboard beeped at me and showed the oil warning light.…
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The Consumers Digest web site was originally designed by graphic artists in 1998. The original graphic design was implemented as a launch point into an Objective-C WebObjects 3.5 application where each link was a “Direct Action” into a specific category. Users could search through tens of thousands of products store in a huge Oracle database.…
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The Endyn web site was a graphical update to an existing web site. The new design featured brushed metal in liberal amounts. The site was converted from static HTML to ASP. Articles were moved into a basic article engine. A discussion forum was setup using Snitz with the same theming.
