Preparations and Apprehensions.
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Greetings, everyone. This is where I'll be relating my many dubious and colorful adventures. There will be quite a few photographs posted here, as well.
Rather than revive my old hosting account at OblivionX.net, I've opted to use Blogger for the time being. Other than its lack of image-hosting, it think it will work out swimmingly. As you can see, I loaded up Photoshop and wasted some of my valuable pre-departure time personalizing a template I found at Blogger Templates.
As far as image-hosting goes, I'll be using flickr. You only get to upload a maximum of 20MB worth of photos per month, so unless I cave in and purchase a Pro account, that will be about 60 low-res pictures a month. It might be sufficient. If not, Pro is only $25/yr for 20GB/mo. In any case, you can check out my photostream here.
Speaking of pictures, my current camera's LCD screen went kaput last week, after three years of faithful service. It still takes pictures, but you can't see what you're shooting at. No good. So tomorrow I'll be travelling to Fry's to pick up a new one. I think I'll be getting a Canon SD550. I'll also be picking up a external hard drive for my laptop (to copy all my music and movies onto) and a memory card reader so I can copy photos off my camera. And this time around, I'll also definitely be getting a case for said camera...
This all begins on Wednesday the 22nd. I leave from San Diego in the morning, then stop off in San Francisco, then fly for who-knows-how-long (I'll only be measuring by the number of in-flight movies shown) to arrive in Osaka at 6 in the morning, June 22nd. I'll be flying with Cathy, so I'll have company. It's all very mind-blowing.
Rather than revive my old hosting account at OblivionX.net, I've opted to use Blogger for the time being. Other than its lack of image-hosting, it think it will work out swimmingly. As you can see, I loaded up Photoshop and wasted some of my valuable pre-departure time personalizing a template I found at Blogger Templates.
As far as image-hosting goes, I'll be using flickr. You only get to upload a maximum of 20MB worth of photos per month, so unless I cave in and purchase a Pro account, that will be about 60 low-res pictures a month. It might be sufficient. If not, Pro is only $25/yr for 20GB/mo. In any case, you can check out my photostream here.
Speaking of pictures, my current camera's LCD screen went kaput last week, after three years of faithful service. It still takes pictures, but you can't see what you're shooting at. No good. So tomorrow I'll be travelling to Fry's to pick up a new one. I think I'll be getting a Canon SD550. I'll also be picking up a external hard drive for my laptop (to copy all my music and movies onto) and a memory card reader so I can copy photos off my camera. And this time around, I'll also definitely be getting a case for said camera...
This all begins on Wednesday the 22nd. I leave from San Diego in the morning, then stop off in San Francisco, then fly for who-knows-how-long (I'll only be measuring by the number of in-flight movies shown) to arrive in Osaka at 6 in the morning, June 22nd. I'll be flying with Cathy, so I'll have company. It's all very mind-blowing.
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