Stutopia

As a parent, I knew I would have to make sacrifices to accomodate this life I helped bring in to this world. Knowing is not the same as life. I say this because Edison’s well check turned into a sick visit with the onset of a 100.4 degree fever yesterday. What was to be an immunization-recovery day quickly turned into a full-blown Pediatric ER day. All tests came out clean. That was a 5 hour ordeal. Not to mention the poor old lady I decided to help in the parking lot - her push-button-ignitian nissan sentra rental had died on her. Long story short: there went a day of my weekend. I could not have dreamed that up if I wanted to. I can’t help but feel my weekends are not my own anymore.

However, the nights are still mine. I got some work done the past few late nights. I guess when you’re told your kid is going to need a spinal tap (which he didn’t need and didn’t get) it kind of throws a wrench in anyones plan. I’m just glad he’s well today. Such are the stresses of parenthood.

This is the second power outage at work yesterday. Glad we’re on battery backup in our department. This reminded me of elementary school somehow. You know how everyone would get giddy when power would shut off? Maybe like the emergency light, there was a glimmer of hope that the school day would just end and we would be sent home. Although I’m not certain we played in the dark, this reminded me specifically of heads up 7-up. I would always try and cheat by placing my head in the corner of my elbow so I could peek downward at a classmates shoes to help me identify them as I was never a great guesser. Plus, it’s boring just sitting down with your face buried into your desk.

Here’s a little something that reminded me of my bro’s favorite show (other than Dexter).

At work trying to manage my short-term and long term digital media needs. I’m jone’sing for a big network attached storage (NAS) device to store all of my precious data, but really just need more compact flash (CF) for my Nikon D70 to take more raw photos of my baby at this point in time. I’ve been shopping around for both but always get confused with CF speeds as they don’t always market their read/write speeds in a uniform manner. Some give you how fast in times (ie. 133x or 300x) while others tell you in mb/s. There is a way to deciper from one to the other. The magic multiplier is 6.66… So if I have the 30mb/s, I’ll just multiply it by 6.66 and get 200x. Here is a simple chart:

45 mb/s = 300x
40 mb/s = 266x
30 mb/s = 200x
20 mb/s = 133x
12 mb/s = 80x

The key here is when you’re shooting RAW or *.NEF (for Nikon users) photos, their sizes are big. My camera produces RAW photos that are around 5mb on average. Thus, if the camera writes faster to the CF card, I can shoot more quickly than with a slower CF; catch more of those special moments. Not to mention that these newer dSLRs shoot in rapid-fire bursts that require a need for speed. Another advantage is read times when reviewing photos as well as downloading them to my computer. I hope this conversion explanation will help some of you who are shopping for digital film.

Well as you can see, the baby monitor is online and setup for remote viewing. Had to work a little firewall magic to get it running. It works, but no baby in sight. I guess he is hanging out by his food, diapers and grandma.

P.S. This post was published from my iPhone Wordpress v1.1 app. It definitely has its perks as it allowed me to choose from pre-existing categories and add tags if I needed to. The photo came out bigger in this post vs. the Shozu post (previous one) too. Very nice!

Wish I had more time to troubleshoot this stuff.

Actually, I fixed this. Xml-rpc was enabled in wp-admin, but it was looking for a new file wp-load.php file that I believe is a new addition to one of the latest Wordpress updates. Since I use symbolic links, that new addition was never updated. Now when I go to my xmlrpc.php page, I’m getting a “XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only.” instead of errors.

So current status is flickr and shozu iPhone app can post to my wordpress blog. Wordpress app v1.1 was having issues before that change was made. I had to delete the blog and then add it again. Sweet success (though I haven’t tried to post from it yet).