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Seashell Cluster

Did I mention I was on a macro photography kick? I'm obsessed with the detail in this one. You can see every single grain of sand, down to its translucency and the little glint of light shining off it. This one will definitely also have a round as my desktop wallpaper.

Anyone know what once lived in these little shells? they were about 2 cm long each.

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Vista

Before I even got 3 feet on my photo hunt, I was struck by the vivid contrast of the blues and greens in this shot. The sky was almost unnaturally clear and the grass was thriving in the sea-spray and the hot sun of the dunes.

I'll probably set this to my desktop wallpaper on my linux machine at home just so I can say I had a Vista on my Desktop long before Microsoft trademarked the word.

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Beach Plum Blossoms

I was all set to do some snorkeling in the ocean Sunday, but it turned out to be super windy and the surf was up, meaning I couldn't see more than 6 inches in front of me. No go.

Instead I went on a photo-safari, and got some amazing shots of the different flora in the area, the dunes, and the amazingly rich colors of that sunny day. Check this one out in full res, it's all about the macro focus. I've always loved photos with a tight depth-of-field, bringing just your subject into sharp resolution, but hinting at what's nearby with fuzzy images and vibrant colors, and I spend a lot of time playing with it that day.

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The Sunset Panorama

This sunset in Cape Cod was unbelievable. Over the course of an hour, the sky turned every possible color,and some I didn't know it can do. In this picture alone, there's yellows, greens, blues, purples, pinks, and reds. It was even more stunning in person.

If you click the picture, you can see it in all its super-high-res glory. This was 6 pictures stitched together, and will be hanging on a wall here in the apartment sometime soon.

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The Photostream

I've been taking a lot of photos lately, and I'm really happy with how some of them have turned out. Since I've got my own webserver, I don't need to host photos at Flickr, but lately I've been jealous of the cool tagging, sorting, and photo-stream functions there. For example, check out the "cute" clusters to get a feel for how it works. Neato.

If you want to see the whole bunch, you can check out the Cape Cod photos here, but I'm going to be featuring some of the best of them right here in my blog over the next few days, as my own sort of tagging and photofeed, letting google do the sorting for me. If you check back later, you'll probably see a bunch of photos here, but those "reading the feed" (I recommend Mozilla Thunderbird or Feedreader if you don't have an RSS reader already) will get to play along as I pick my favs and fill in some details.

Enjoy!

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Love Song for A Web Server.

Modest at the time of its assembly, the little workhorse serving these pages is chugging away at 133 mhz. By comparison, the slowest desktop I would consider purchasing this year is 2800 mhz. Beyond that, it's got 128 megs of ram and a single hard drive. Not exactly what you would call robust.

Everything says it should have crumped or become obsolete ages ago, but it's biggest problem right now is not wanting to come back on without an fsck after a hard power outage. Between the influx of searchers from google images and the ever increasing traffic generated by simply being around for a few years and consistently writing articles, it's pushing over 50000 pages a month and at least 5000 unique visitors.

Not bad for a little 133mhz machine.

This would seem simple if all it was doing was pushing out static HTML and images, but amazingly, all of the pages it's serving are dynamically generated, either by php or the blosxom cgi script. My photo archive is even tied into a database backend, something that anyone planning a web sever deployment will tell you you need extra processing, memory, and throughput capacity to handle.

Still going strong.

So thank you, little web server, for chugging away in my basement apartment back in 99 while I learned linux, for staying up years at a time even though something's a bit awry with your harddrive, and for making it through this steady ramp up in traffic. I promise I won't get you slashdotted, but somehow, I feel like you could handle it. Tough little guy.

You've even gracefully handled multiple domains, and running HomelessConnectNYC in a pinch seemed to be effortless for you. Nice work. (As an aside, my little server owes most of its success to the sleek and stable software that makes the most of its meager hardware, those bastions of the Open Source movment, Apache, MySQL, the Apache JAMES mailserver, and GNU/Linux.)

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