07/23/10 06:26 - 80.ºF - ID#52261

Spray Painters on North St

Someone went crazy with spraypaint on North st painting the words psycho city with some asterix. They painted on the new Kaleida building on main, plus the auto plus and the tapestry school.

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Words: 41
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/26/10 05:28

Category: thursday

07/22/10 07:48 - 78.ºF - ID#52256

elmira is gangsta

says his shirt

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Words: 4
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/26/10 10:18

07/22/10 07:38 - 78.ºF - ID#52255

rebel with a finger

french fries beer $15.

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Words: 5
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/22/10 07:38

Category: work

07/20/10 10:24 - 73.ºF - ID#52244

Glad someone appreciates my work

The new online directory is a work of art. The person or persons responsible for designing such an intuitive and useful website deserves our appreciation. The feature I liked the best was the pictures of the people I search for, since I am very bad at connecting names with people. Thanks for the good work.

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Words: 55
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/20/10 10:24

Category: web

07/18/10 01:47 - 80.ºF - ID#52229

Web Mausoleum

I am glad I havent had to deal with this yet.

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Words: 20
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/26/10 10:18

Category: brushwood

07/18/10 12:29 - 78.ºF - ID#52226

packin up and driving home

(e:mike) is going to the beach. I am jealous.

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Words: 12
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/26/10 10:18

Category: pets

07/18/10 11:35 - 77.ºF - ID#52223

hammy Do

is the probably the furriest pet I will ever have. She has these crazy puffs of hair.

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Words: 19
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/26/10 10:18

Category: brushwood

07/18/10 11:28 - 77.ºF - ID#52222

My new outfit and pre fire

The fire was gigantic. We left our phones at the camp. I kind wish I brought it but I had fun dancing without it.

The flames shot so high into the sky.

Here are some videos

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Words: 44
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/26/10 10:18

Category: buffalo

07/17/10 09:51 - 79.ºF - ID#52213

teens carjack woman on Delaware

Watching TV in the waiting room, it seems unbelieveable but 3 teens carjacked a woman at Delaware and Nottingham terrace. Apparently they have been arrested and are also accused of attacking a rollerblader at Delaware park. This is why I run whenever I am alone. On the other hand if someone tries to carjack me I'd probably run them over.

Wish me luck, although if I had to die, anesthetic is the way to go.

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Words: 76
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/22/10 01:28

Category: android

07/17/10 06:21 - 76.ºF - ID#52212

Android Mobile App 1.05

The mobile app now allows you to take a picture with the camera directly. Previously you could select the select pics button and go to the camera from the gallery but that seemed to only work on froyo. I tested it on my nexus one and it works. Hopefully, it will work on the moto phones too, although, there are a lot of bug reports about their camera functionality - so who knows. Next step maybe, record audio directly to your blog.

On a related front, it now should handle the rotation issue with moto images. What was happening was this. In order to send the pics to estrip from the mobile app, I first resize them on the phone as it would take forever to send 5-8MP images. The problem is that my nexus one truly rotates images when rotated, while the moto droid line seems to just set the EXIF_ORIENTATION bit to the rotation desired. I get why they do this, the problem is that the android resize functions strips out the EXIF data. So I was stuck with the problem of having no EXIF data to work with when it got to the server. Mind you I still think the whole store in EXIF data is a little sketchy as not all software supports it. Just try and look at one of those images in firefox for example, they are incorrectly rotated.

So to solve it I read the EXIF data before the resize and send the orientation information along with the packet to the server. I tested with some images from a droid and it worked good. Hopefully it will work for (e:heidi)'s droid X. (e:chris) told me facebook had the same issue. Really it seams to be a bug in androids bm.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, outputStream); method.

You can get the update from the android marketplace.