On Saturday, we did some cooking for a few parties: one was a tapas party that we brought lamb meatballs and other a soup cook-off in which we cooked Vij’s Daal. I decided to take a few pictures for cards.

The masala that goes in the daal…

Savoury lamb meatballs…

I think that you will likely see more food shots as we cook stuff (and make our way through the Vij’s cookbook).

Well, it’s been almost a year, but now I have some photos processed and up on Flickr at least.

Maui 2008 II Collection

Here are two samples from the set…

I had previously posted the underwater shots…Maui 2008 I Collection

Cheers,

Scott.

Some sacred lilies for Chinese New Year!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/airjockeys/3257759272/

In December of 2007, I went to Amsterdam for a work conference. It was blustery and cold, but fun. I went out and shot some photos of bicycles and around Amsterdam.

AirJockeys Amsterdam Album

On Flickr

Cheers,

Scott

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I wish that I was better at posting more often, but alas I seem to go in waves. Most of it centers around wanting to post photos. So here goes…

I recently update my site: http://photos.airjockeys.com to Silverlight 2 RTM. I had been previously running on B2, so you may have noticed that my site was broken. Finally fixed.

I have also started posting to Flickr. http://Flickr.com/photos/airjockeys. The main reason that i wanted to do this was to get comments. I realized that I would never get around to creating a comment database on my own web site. Oh well.

Cheers,

Scott.

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Last Friday, we went out to watch the velodrome races in Marymoor Park. Definitely fun to take pictures of all the action.

We recently took care of some friends cats. The kitten is only several months old and loved to chase things. It was quite difficult to get Brixton to sit still to take a photo.

Back in 2006, I took a couple photos of the Ballard Library on a sunny New Years Eve day. I really like the architecture. It seems like all the libraries around here have been given some money to build these beautiful new buildings. Nice.

Ballard Library Album 

Scott.

Since I have been going through and re-organizing my photos for the new Silverlight layout, I decided that I want to do a better job at capturing things.

Here are a set of photos that I took when I bought my house in 2004. I immediately started renovations--tearing down to the studs and completely redoing almost the entire house. There were a number of issues with wiring and plumbing that made me glad that I made the decision before knowing all the issues.

House Photo Album

For example:

Here is a photo before all the demolition was completed:

And a look right after drywall and painting, but before kitchen installation and floors finished:

Cheers,

Scott.

And I have been hard at work designing and coding for airjockeys.com! I have used the latest release of Silverlight 2 Beta 2 to update pieces of my site.

For more information on Silverlight, see http://www.silverlight.net. Scott Guthrie's blog has some great information on this latest release.

Here are the pages that I have updated so far...

http://airjockeys.com

• This is pretty close to the final version of this site. I pick up the last 5 posts on this block with the tag 'Photo' to display on the front page. This is the way I plan to let people know when I have new photos to look at.

http://photos.airjockeys.com

• This is more of a place holder and some learning that I did for Silverlight development. This will be re-written shortly, but allows you to find all of my photo galleries.

http://photos.airjockeys.com/photoalbum.html#Detail,albums/2008/Maui%20HI/,gallery.xml,0

http://photos.airjockeys.com/photoalbum.html#Detail,albums/2007/Solu-Khumbu%20Trek/,gallery.xml,0

• Here is the examples of the album view that I am trying to create. I still have lots of work, but this is already better than the old html and flash photo viewers that I have used. I hope to add comments and ratings, slideshows and other ways to view photos.

Cheers,

Scott.

This is pretty awesome. I know Dave Morton from my Nepal trek to Everest Base Camp that I did last October where he was our guide. He is a great guy. It is cool to see the team support RED.

They summited Everest on May 22:

"After all of that at 8:10 AM on May 22 Nepal date and time, Everest Team INSPI(RED) and 2 Sherpa Tsering Dorjee and Fura Kancha stood together on top of the world at 29,035 ft. "

Congratulations to Everest Team Red. To read more... http://joinred.spaces.live.com/default.aspx

Cheers,

Scott.

I was pleased to see a friend of mine from Vancouver has started posting some of his art work online. I have seen some of it in person and I have always been impressed.

For now he has been posting them on flickr (Hernandez Photos) but I expect to sometime see his portfolio off his main site: ArtWerk.

Thanks Rob! Keep showing us more stuff.

Scott.

I recently upgraded my web server for AirJockeys.com to be Windows Server 2008 running IIS7 (where previously I was running IIS6). The main reason for doing this was to be able to play around with new features, including ASP.NET 3.5 and hoping to get better manageability and diagnostics of the server.

Instead I found that my my photo galleries were busted. Time to debug. What I could determine was that I couldn't even load any of the images from the server. Huh? Unfortunately as exposed by my hosting provider, I don't seem to get any better manageability or diagnostics from the server. I needed to phone my hosting provider (GoDaddy) to see if they could help. They debugged it and indicated that it was because I was trying to load files from a 'bin' folder and that is not allowed. However they did not have a fix for me.

This is where my Microsoft connections came to the rescue. I know the Product Unit Manager for IIS and after a quick email, I had a fix. Here is the fix for everybody who doesn't know the PUM of the team. Thanks Bill!

You can remove the bin folder restriction by adding/updating the web.config in the root of your web server with the following:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<configuration>

    <system.webServer>

        <security>

            <requestFiltering>

                <hiddenSegments>

                    <remove segment="bin" />

                </hiddenSegments>

            </requestFiltering>

        </security>

    </system.webServer>

</configuration>

Now this is where IIS7 pays off! The distributed config system easily allows this override.

Scott.

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Well, I finally figure it's time to give my site an overhaul. I tend to do some changes on a yearly basis, but really do a major overhaul once every 3 years or so. This time, I am going to re-write most of my site in Silverlight 2. This is a technology that I have been on the periphery at Microsoft--and help start down the mobile path. It is very cool. I can use my .NET coding skills and use the Expression tool suite to design.

Any ways, as of today, all I have updated is my home page on http://AirJockeys.com. Stay tuned for more.

Cheers,

Scott.

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As I am preparing for the next White Grizzly adventure, I realized that I did not post the video that I completed last year. Well here it is. I used Silverlight Streaming and Microsoft Expression Encoder to help me publish this. Very cool.

Cheers,

Scotty.