Taken earlier today, for Steubenville St. Louis Mid-America:
More information about the photo can be found on the Flickr page (click on the photo to view). I really, really, really like the D90 paired with the 50mm f/1.4 lens!!
Be sure to check back in over the next few days—tons of information from the Archdiocese and the Review about the Pallium pilgrimage in Rome, and tons more about the Catholic New Media Celebration!
I just finished rolling a patch for fixing node.tpl.php in Drupal 7 over on the Drupal.org issue queue; hopefully it's ready to be rolled into core, as it's been weeks months since that particular issue was started. Page.tpl.php is already complete. We still have a few more to go, including comment.tpl.php, block.tpl.php and a bunch of little .tpl.php files.
I think Drupal 7 is going to be the best release of Drupal yet, in terms of being able to have a lot of appeal to non-programmers/techies. I set up my first ever full-fledged Wordpress site a few days ago, and it was super-easy to get things going (although also severely limited in what it could do, compared to a base Drupal install with Views and CCK), choose a new theme, change some settings, and hit the ground running.
Alongside today's news that Apple has finally released the iPhone/iPod Touch OS 3.0 to the public (download it by opening iTunes, connecting your iPhone or iPod Touch and clicking the 'Check for Update' button), some websites are noting that it is easy to enable tethering on your iPhone, even if AT&T hasn't officially announced support for this feature.
Tethering is great for small Internet browsing sessions, or when your iPhone just isn't enough to do what you need to do (for instance, adding content to a website, or uploading a large file). But don't Tether too much: First, if a lot of people are tethering, it can slow down the network for everyone else, and second, your iPhone's battery takes a huge hit (even if charging) while you're using it's 3G signal for tethering.
[NOTE: Visual Voicemail may stop working after you follow the steps below. To get it back, simply go to the Settings app, tap on General, then Network, then Cellular Data Network; tap on the "Visual Voicemail" APN and change it from wap.cingular to acds.voicemail.]
[Update: I have chosen... based on feedback, I needed a little more of a smile. And I'm glad for it, because I'm usually not as serious as I was in the pictures below anyways! Check out the About page to see the final picture.]
Last night I glanced at my old portrait I was using for most of my social media purposes (and on this site). I noticed three things: 1) It's more than five years old now, 2) I wear glasses now... pretty much all day every day, and 3) I don't think I even have the original file, so making a larger copy of it is out of the question.
So I decided to take some pictures. Grabbed the D90, aimed a flash at the far wall, and stood in a corner in front of the large white wall, setting the 50mm to AF with the remote control. After about 40 frames in two outfits (really, two shirts... who am I kidding?), I picked the two photos below:
After having some fun playing Guitar Hero and DDR with some old friends, I (and one of the friends) installed some strip lighting in the main room, to (a) replace an old light fixture that screamed early 90s, and (b) used 200 watts of power without much effect (it used a bunch of the candle-style incandescent bulbs).
The main room is just about complete... I am going to focus a little more effort on getting the bathroom and kitchen in tip-top shape (both in cleanliness and style), but for now, a well-light main room is nice!
It's been a while! You might be wondering where I've been hiding all this time. Well, this being the first time I've been able to sit myself in front of my home iMac for more than 10 minutes in two weeks, I decided I'd finally stick a posting on the 'ol blog again, with a quick update of the happenings in the Archdiocese of St. Louis.
The Installation
Basically, this has been my life for the past two weeks. During a normal day, I would prepare for the installation, go home, work on the condo a bit, then worry about the installation. Then, I'd go to sleep, wake up, prepare for the installation, etc. (repeat this over and over again). In fact, from Monday through just a few hours ago, I think I spent more time at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis than in bed!
But the payoff was huge: