Christopher Allen's Ephemera Blog

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• 18:45 Beautiful seaplane trip from Cortes Island to Renton (near Seattle). 1300 ft up down the Puget Sound with great visibility. Lots of photos. #
• 18:48 A little too tight a connection from the Boeing Airport where the seaplanes land to SEA Seatac Airport, but made it. On way back to OAK. #
• 20:41 Arrived OAK airport, heading home. Gotta clean up before M gets back from her vacation Tuesday. #
• 20:53 First time I've traveled with my hang drum. No trouble with travelling with it as a carry on - the checkers are curious but not suspiscious #
• 20:54 Have Hang, Will Travel ;-) #

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• 11:25 Slow, pleasant, warm day on Channel Rock. The honey bees are diligently working and I am not. #

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• 23:57 Wonderful day of conversation, walking the rocks at low tide, drumming, and great food at Channel Rock, Cortes Island. #

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• 10:25 More wolf song last night, and several of the residents of some of the outbuildings last night heard the pitter-patter of padded feet. #

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• 06:41 Just woke to the threnody of wolves in the hills above Channel Rock on Cortes island, BC. #
• 06:43 First time I've heard the mournful song of wolves. It was more like a singing chorus then the more random howling that i had imagined. #

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• 01:08 No road to Channel Rock on Cortes Island, BC, so I'm hauling luggage on dingy. Piloted it solo this time. flickr.com/photos/chris ... #
• 01:14 Gyazickr on iPhone doesn't deal with twitter post length very well either. It posts to twitter via safari, Flickup uses Twitteriffic. #
• 01:16 No road to Channel Rock on Cortes Island, BC, so I'm hauling luggage on dingy. Piloted it solo this time. tinyurl.com/5nhb68 #
• 01:20 Gyazickr iPhone App only posts 320 x 240 pictures, lost geolocation info (see tinyurl.com/5nhb68 ). Sorry, removing from phone. #
• 01:23 Flickup uploads 1024 x 768, much better then then Gyazickr. But like Gyazickr, appears to loose geolocation info on upload. #
• 01:23 Only thing Gyazickr did right was caption. Flickup did a better caption. Both failed to deal with limited length of twitter posts. #
• 01:25 Arrived Channel Rock on Cortes Island, BC, after boating in my luggage. Took a while to get wifi up - very remote here. #
• 01:33 No power lines to Channel Rock, all electricity is generated using solar. Here is the solar panel controller: tinyurl.com/5c6vb5 #
• 01:36 AirMe iPhone App posts only new photos to Flickr (i.e not from photo roll), only supports is 640 x 480: tinyurl.com/5c6vb5 #
• 01:38 AirMe also appears to lose the geoloc info in the photo, but does put a loc name in caption -- in this case, the closest is Campbell River. #
• 01:48 So far disappointed with the iPhone Flickr upload apps. All loose geodata in the photo itself, and none upload the full sized photo. #
• 01:50 For comparison, see a photo from iPhone w/geoloc transfered to iPhoto, then uploaded to Flickr. Great metadata: tinyurl.com/67vxdd #
• 13:44 Sunny morning--woke up late, ate food grown from the garden, played my hang drum, taught some djembe, and took a solar shower. I am content. #

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• 01:52 At hotel near Tsarwassen Ferry, in Canada. Taking 7:45am to Duke Point/Nanaimo. Location: gpstwit.com/30q #
• 14:13 Waiting at Java Shack (free wifi) for penultimate ferry to Quadra Island. Last ferry will be to Cortes Island. Location: gpstwit. ... #
• 14:18 Only using wifi in Canada. $0.79 per minute for calls, $1.50ish per megabyte, $0.20 per SMS. AT&T choices for international plans suck. #
• 14:24 Photo of Quadra Island Ferry from Java Shack (free wifi), Campbell River, BC [Flickup] bit.ly/3H4tmZ - 2008-08-08 14:21:38 -0700 #
• 14:30 Retrying GPS Twit - it doesn't handle length well. Location: gpstwit.com/35v #

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• 14:19 Heading to Cortes Island, BC, Canada. Synced my music and apps to iPhone before leaving but now iPhone crapper out. #
• 14:23 iPhone's Safari still working but all 3rd party apps failing. Tried reboot, no. Tried reset but lost all music - drats! #
• 14:28 Warning to all, if you use the iPhone's Setting's Reset it says it will not erase your data. My contacts are still there but all music gone. #
• 16:00 Boarding OAK to SEA, meeting Gifford at Ferry terminal, then off to Cortes Island, Canada. First time bringing my hang drum. #
• 17:49 I have an iPod Touch, which I largely use for testing. It too can't run any third party apps, and TV shows on it fails. I suspect FairPlay. #
• 17:50 Arrived SEA Seatac Airport. #

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• 09:40 Urgh. Not a single downloaded app will run on my iPhone other then apple's built in. Upgraded to 2.0.1, no change. Factory reset time again. #

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• 22:14 Spent morning sleeping late after iPhoneDevCamp -- had lunch with my cousin Brahm, who was in transit briefly at SFO after flying from Korea #