I'm sorry family, friends, wanderers. I've been completely delinquent to jumphook.com.

Sadly, I think my days of blog pioneering are coming to an end. I'm going to switch some some other set of services. I will probably relaunch the same content here on a new site of some sort.

I will keep the NCAA basketball pool on jumphook.com for the immediate future :)

I still love the idea of having a .com to house all of my content in one place, however the maintenance to keep a bunch of disjoint apps working together is just too much for me to spend time worrying about. my new approach will be to host the content on a bunch of different sites specialized in hosting that content --> likely flickr, delicious, wordpress, technorati, etc. I will tie the RSS feeds from these sites into one page -- probably editable like a wiki. and that will be it. Only one app to maintain (the wiki, probably via Joomla or something) and one integration technology (RSS) to worry about. I think this is the right appraoch.

Also, with my recent ENGAGEMENT to Claudia, I want a system that works for both of us. that means the days of complex SW integrations are probably over and we will do something more simplified.

Anyway, just an update :)

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.

• 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

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...

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.