Going into work this morning was less than desirable. After a week in Colorado, the humidity of Minnesotan summers seem unbearable. The trip was nice, even though it rained on us just about every day, and no I’m not talking about the typical 5:00pm rains.
We made it up to the ~14,000ft summit of Mt. Sneffels. There was a nice 100ft patch of melting snow near the summit that we climbed through while ascending. While my old ASICS GT-2100 running shoes were fine for most of the climb, they lacked proper tread for snow. Thus, it was necessary to use both hands and feet to keep climbing without sliding down. Luckily, a few other groups knew a much better route, which completely avoided the snow. In its place was a nice two-foot-wide shelf above a 50ft or so cliff. It was not snow, thus was not a problem.
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- 1000 feet to go
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- Blue flowers growing in the saddle
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- Notice the snow
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- An overlook of Yankee Boy Basin from the summit
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- Looking at the saddle from the summit
There are many more pictures from the trip. I’ll eventually get a pictures page up with the pictures from this trip and from Moab, Utah last year.
I found the manual mode for the SD850, which really helped with the grainy image problems I was having before. Tweaking some other settings further reduced the graininess to the point that point-n-shoot auto mode produced pretty good pictures. All-in-all, the camera is pretty good, it is just different from the previous PowerShots we have/had.
-John Havlik
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For the next week or so I will be out of town, and disconnected from the Internet. All comments and support requests will be answered when I return. Should your comment not show up immediately, do not resubmit it, Spam Karma can some times eat comments. Repeated submission of comments that do not show up tends to tick off Spam Karma, so just wait until I’m back and see if the comment shows up then, if not then resubmit the comment.
Remember in early August an early beta of Breadcrumb NavXT 2.2 should be available. Documentation will catch up, hopefully. Finally, WP Trainer may show up some time in mid to late August.
-John Havlik
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Playing around with the new “Press This” feature. The video part is not as good as the picture part, but what ever. This is the new JibJab video, “Press This” did not automagically find it for inclusion in the post (under the video tab) unlike it did for several images (in the images tab).
-John Havlik
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Well, Breadcrumb NavXT 2.1.3 was going to be released on Thursday, but then some problems arose in the testbed. Truth be told it is my fault, I was playing around with HP’s Scrawlr (SQL injection vulnerability tester).
Since it was on a LAN, there was little stopping it from overloading the poor old p3 866 that I use for my web development testbed. No it did not completely lock up, but it did kill it’s Ethernet connection. As the testbed sits in a closet, without keyboard, mouse, or monitor I simply pressed the power button until it cycled off. Of course, this is not the recommended way to shut something down. I ended up corrupting the PHP5 libraries.
Luckily things weren’t beyond redemption, I resynchornised my ebuild list, emerged portage (self update), emerged apache and PHP. Now I get to reemerge PHP again as it wasn’t compiled against the correct version of Apache for some reason. Hopefully this will be fixed in an hour or so when PHP is done compiling. Then I can get back to work on Breadcrumb NavXT. 2.3.1 will be released by Monday, hopefully tonight if all things go well.
For 2.3.1 I’m looking into a fix that will allow the API filters to work on the correct elements in the breadcrumb. They should already do this, but as observed by users of qTranslate (it’s like the Polyglot plug-in) it is not working for some reason.
-John Havlik
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Know thy audience. Any good speaker will follow this fundamental rule of speech presentation. When the rule is broken, members of the audience may become disgruntled. Friday one attended the graduation ceremony for Chaska High School’s class of 2008–the little brother graduated. The second student speaker broke this fundamental rule. This student claimed a fellow graduating student made electronic devices which no one in the audience could figure out.
“I beg to differ,” slipped from my lips. Not in cockiness, but in confidence that I could reverse engineer any of the student’s gadgets within a few hours. With over 600 students graduating, there is a good chance I was not the only one capable of this ‘impossible’ feat. Turns out, according to a graduate, the gadgets were not so amazing.
Funny enough, other speakers reminisced on the football victory over a local rival in the fall of 2005. This happened to be when they were all sophomores, and few—if any—were actually on the team that played. The team comprised mostly of seniors, class of 2006, and juniors, class of 2007. Ever since that win, Chaska has yet to come close to beating that rival. One would guess they are too busy living in the past. No worries though, starting in the fall of 2009, Chaska can share its bottom position in the conference with Chanhassen which is getting its own high school for the sole purpose of sports (one voted against it, as any responsible person would).
-John Havlik
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WordCamp NYC
