Hey all, just wanted to send a note out apologizing for the 2-3 day outage of my ole blog. The $$$ ran out on jumphook.com and they had the wrong 'notificiation' email for me so I never got word. Factor in the fact that my laptop is currently broken, I had no way to check any more. Anyway, all's well again, time to get excited for NCAA tournement action!

Check out this new innnovation from farecast.com:

You can type in your origin and destination and a set of dates - and it will tell you the best time to actually purchase the ticket. An interesting idea, instead of scouring everyone's airline on the planet with search engines; time your purchasing time so that you get the best deal.

I've also added easyjet.com to my airfare search engine list (in the left column on this page) which is a great option for taking cheap european flights.

Source: Claudia, thanks!

OMG the lamest jumphook.com feature to date. To celebrate the event, the vacation counter is back up and running!

The stupid javascript errors you get when loading the page in Internet Explorer are finally gone. Two fixes were needed - first the blosxom spam plugin I have is so cryptically giving an error that I just put a try-catch block around it. The second thing was that my method of accessing things in the HTML DOM was bad - I switched to using something called CBObject() that was written by someone who knows javascript better than me. That seemed to fix the errors! sweeeeeeeeeet.

Jumphook Trips A really cool new jumphook.com innovation is ready for some face time. I've been experimenting with tagging my blog entries with GPS coordinates in order to bring you these cool thing to look at:

• Google Map Triplogue:
• Click here to view the Yucatan trip in Google Maps
• Google Earth Triplogue:
• Click here to view the Yucatan trip in Google Earth

How was this all done? Well I created 2 new plugins to my blosxom blogging software and also a new 'KML' based flavor that will allow all my blog entries to be viewed in Google's map language - KML. Pretty neat I think, please leave me some feedback!

I'm a freakin total idiot. I was trying to add some cool GPS tagging business to my blog, and I completely erased all my blog entries and replace them with 'test!'. I'm doing my best to put a backup I had made a few months ago up to restore some of the stuff. But I'm afraid that a good portion of the last 2 months blog data is completely gone. whoops.

I was just learning about this new technology called GeoURLs. It's pretty neat, you put some special tags in the header of your blog/website:




and then there's a directory at geoURL.org that lets you look at your real nieghbors' webpages.

Pretty cool, well if you're into GPS anyway...

OK, I've tried yet another method for preventing comment spam on my blog. Now I have a sweet 'word verification' check akin to what ticket master does. The hole in my new security method? Well, the word doesn't change! I made the jpg in paint and the password is hardcoded. Good times. Anyway, click the 'add a comment' link on this entry and try it out :)

Well, unfortunately, there was one tragedy on the Yucatán trip - namely my camera took a dip in the ocean while Claudia and I were swimming to the Tulum ruins. Anyway, the cameara is toast - and I have replaced it w/ the newer model of camera:

The specs on this camera look pretty sweet, and I'm exicted to take it out in the wild. New improvements are - more megapixels, audio+video on the video capture, smaller and slimmer, bigger LCD, and 'digital image stabilization' which will help steady my caffeniated shaky hands when taking pictures.

Welcome to the new age - jumphook.com with 10 Gigs of space. Powered by vDeck. The penalty? 4 hours of downtowim, a broken calendar & categories plugin, wiki problems, and a broken photo gallery. Yikes I have a lot to fix...

Dear Phentermine: I have implemented anti-spam mechanisms in my blog comments now to stop you from filling my jumphook pages w/ meaningless crap. Please Leave me alone.