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

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

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

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.

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.