This image was taken at the aquarium at the Houston Zoo. As dark as it was I had to put the camera on a monopod and lean against the railing to make myself into a tripod.

Everybody else seems to be on Flickr, so I figured I’d give it a shot.  Right now I’ve only got about 25 images online but depending on what sort of response they get I’ll probably wind up adding more.

One of my web projects met a milestone a few days ago with the 1.0 release. It took me over 2 years working part time, but 1.0 finally contains the full feature set that I wanted when I started writing ProofBuddy in the fall of 2005.

If you’ve got an empty wall begging for a window but don’t want to break out the saw to put one in, or just can’t, you might want to look at one of these. It’s a set of blinds with lighting behind to simulate a window where one doesn’t exist.

MapQuest has added a new feature that allows you to estimate how much it’s going to cost to fill up your car for a trip. You enter the miles, how many miles per gallon your car gets, and the cost of gas and the site will show you an estimate of how much it’ll cost you.

For those of you using Firefox, there is a plugin available that will allow you to view the EXIF data on any image in the browser by right clicking and selecting Properties.

The plugin is called FxIF.

A few days ago I tried to change the SSH port of a server I'm working on from 22 to something different since that's supposed to help with security. But the port I changed to was blocked by the firewall which means that after a reboot I had effectively locked myself out.

The server had WHM / cPanel on it so I was still able to manage the server, but needed to get back SSH. Fortunately cPanel has a built in script for this mistake.

Put the following into your browser replacing example.com with the domain name of your server.

Presto. SSH will be back on port 22. One thing you'll need to do is go back and fix /etc/ssh/sshd_config so that it's back on port 22 as well. I found out this morning that this fix doesn't actually change the config file.

This little meerkat was sitting smiling at all the visitors walking by at the Houston Zoo while the rest of his group was laying around asleep.

This is from a trip to the Houston Zoo. I had prefocused on the red ball with the far right focal point (top point with the camera rotated) and started shooting as soon as the sea lion broke the water.

We've driven by the Aransas Pass Wildlife Refuge at least 20 times but never went in. Monday was the day. A June afternoon in Texas is not the best time to look for wildlife, but there were a few bugs and other small things out.

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