I’m rebuilding my WebSphere environment. It’s hosed. Shouldn’t take long. In the meantime, I’ve been busy. There’s this gadget that I want to get, but I think I’m gonna buy it for my dad since his 59th birthday is coming up in May. Perhaps I will test it to make sure it works. Heh. I’ll be buying it in Delaware, that’s for dang sure. I’ll reveal what it was after May 8th in a grand ceremony. I’m trying to book Siegfried and Roy, only I heard that Roy might be afraid of my parent’s cats. Tsk, tsk.
It’s nice to report that Queen Beth is now an official MovableType blogger. Feel free to install crazy CGI and PHP scripts on the box, Beth. If you drag the box down, I’ll get a faster box. It may be useful to point out that I’m not sure who I’m going to see Madonna with. It’s so odd to come full circle once again. I bought my tickets to see Madge in 2001 while I was still in Houston and completely unaware that I’d be working in Philadelphia. I figured I’d just fly to the show (since I was in the 7th row). I’m 5 rows further back this time, but I saved a *lot* of money as a result. Yeah, it was bad. I’m still looking for better deals on eBay and CraigsList, but being in the front and center section 2 isn’t too shabby no matter what row you’re in. When I get home tonight I’ll post all the crappy pictures I managed to take with my Casio wristwatch camera. I plan to sneak in a super nice digital camera this time. If they make me take it back to the car, fine, I’ll take it back. When I went to the concert last time I thought I was such a rebel. I should have noticed that there were hundreds of cameras with little wimpy flashes going off all over the stadium. I hate to break it to those people, but their little flashes didn’t actually illuminate objects that were a thousand feet away. Somehow I think that if I passed out pamphlets that said that, people still wouldn’t believe me. You know, like George Bush.
I got a response from ”The Real World Philly” team. Here’s the email. I’ll include the mail header data just for fun. My comments follow below.
X-YahooFilteredBulk: 24.242.140.99 Return-Path: <realphil@eagle.dnspropagation.com> Received: from 24.242.140.99 (EHLO zoso.email.net) (24.242.140.99) by mta238.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:27:35 -0800 Received: from eagle.dnspropagation.com (eagle.dnspropagation.com [64.191.7.152]) by zoso.email.net (8.12.8/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i2VLRYBW021255 for <removed>; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:27:34 -0600 Received: from realphil by eagle.dnspropagation.com with local (Exim 4.24) id 1B8nFF-0007x9-9g; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:27:33 -0500 From: "Real World Philly Photos" <photos@realworldphilly.net> To: [removed] CC: sisser@realworldphilly.net Subject: Photo Usage X-Mailer: NeoMail 1.26 X-IPAddress: 207.106.130.114 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-Id: <E1B8nFF-0007x9-9g@eagle.dnspropagation.com< Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:27:33 -0500 X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - eagle.dnspropagation.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - email.net X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32088 32088] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - eagle.dnspropagation.com Content-Length: 289 Hello Mark, Thank you for contacting us regarding the photo usage. One of our designers must have overlooked this fact. We will gladly put a byline and link on our home page within 24-48 hours. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Sincerely, The Real World Philly Team --
One of our designers? Has anyone seen how ugly the site is? This same designer also stole a few of the other images that are on the site. I’m still in the process of identifying their rightful owners. Am I disappointed by the lack of an apology? Yeah. I am. However, if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. I’ll reveal exactly what that means in a few days. Stay tuned, kids. You too, Jason. And hey, don’t forget that I’m coming into Houston this weekend.
