Had a pretty good day today, or at least had enough distractions to have a normal day… Took today’s photograph at the cable car turnaround at Powell and Market… I couldn’t dial down the aperture to make the cable car appear more clearly coz I was hand holding the camera… You can still kindda see it in the super soft bokeh, love the curved aperture blades in the 24-70/2.8L…
“San Francisco [now]”, 「破碎的心對著破碎的玻璃，一切都模糊不清。」
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When I first setup this blog 2 years ago, I went with the default permalink structure in WordPress. All the new blogs I helped configure I went with a more readable and SEO-friendly permalink setup. I didn’t change mine because of existing incoming links and also if 2 URLs go to the same content Google ranking will drop significantly. I looked into an easy way to do a 301 redirect and found a permalink migration plugin, it’s pretty awesome and does exactly what I wanted (301-redirect old permalink to the new structure). Now the URLs look a lot better, instead of the post ID I have the date and the post title in the URLs. 🙂
Some random updates (and a very incoherent blog post in general, sorry): Yesterday I signed up for a new gym, got a great deal, something like $800 for 3 years and $24 annually afterwards. It’s great to workout in a real gym again, the one at the condo just didn’t quite cut it. When I was there yesterday afternoon, back to my program I put together 3 years ago, it felt great. Kindda brought back memories of my college days, workout has always been a way to handle stress and help me focus. I should also get back into running again, running is a little different though, I actually need to be able to focus to run long distance.
The iPhone contest at OnMyList created some strange traffic pattern that pretty much brought the server down, I’m looking into caching more things with memcached right now. I also got the first cut of our Facebook app to work, now we’ll just work on the styling to make it look nice and then we’ll release it.
My father wrote a great blog entry (in Chinese) about roughly the last 5 years of my life. Shamefully, he is absolutely correct about everything. I didn’t know exactly what I was going through, but I knew I needed a change, so I took a new job and a change of scenery. I’m blessed to have parents who are really close to me and understand me, more than I do myself, when going through confusion in life it is important to let the people who truly understand and care about you to help you figure things out.
I wasn’t pleased with any of the photos I took outside during lunch, so snapped this one at home… It’s already been a year since I bought the Co-Axial GMT in today’s photo, it was a birthday present for myself, it did make me happy for quite a while and now it’s just another watch. I guess work and photography are what keep me going these days…
“things that used to matter”
Had serious troubles falling asleep last night, not sure if it was the new apt or the noise or something else, well probably all of the above. Got up pretty early again, walked over to Chinatown to get some stuff to make coffee, snapped this on my way there. Now I got everything I need to get myself fully caffeinated, ready for a serious work day!
Completed my move from Santa Clara to San Francisco, went very smoothly. Also found a tenant for the condo in south bay so I won’t have to pay double rent… (update: the dude freakin backed out, so now I’m still looking for a new tenant) I am able to pick up an open wifi AP, it’s on Comcast and is super fast. So maybe I won’t have to get broadband or catv myself…
snapped this at Washington Square across the street, it’s no masterpiece but I’m tired and it’s getting dark (thus the noise)… This photo, unlike the previous ones, doesn’t have much to do with my current mood or state of mind either…
“though we often break the law”
Again woke up early, signed the lease for my new apartment in SF yesterday, so I put my place in Santa Clara up for rent on Craigslist. My eyes wide open starring at the ceiling and the surroundings, saw the controller and bear on Tay’s coffee table and snapped today’s photo. With Jan’s help I captioned it “The Tao of Toys” (「道」之玩偶 ). It has something to do with the concept of Wu Wei (無為) in Taoism and the desire for some level of control of your destiny at the same time.
Jan on Superfuture suggested that I do a daily photo blog post… It will get me back to shooting and blogging regularly. I’ll try to take a new photo daily, but I might take a batch one day and post one per day… The photographs might or might not reflect current mood, I can’t really control the weather in SF… To kick this off I’m including a couple of photos taken just an hour ago:
got up early, took a walk and shot a few frames on my way to a cafe…
Our hosting provider said there was a DDoS attack on our IP address so they took the server offline. They will bring the server back up when the DDoS stops. I am not sure what exactly is going on. Time to move to EC2.
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