http://blog.epkphoto.com The personal blog of Eric Kerby Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:26:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I parsed through my various news of the day, I ran across this cool description and video of a concept for Firefox on a mobile platform.  The post is by Aza Raskin, the Head of User Experience at Mozilla Labs.  As you saw in my last post, I'm excited ... http://blog.epkphoto.com/2008/06/13/sweet-concept-for-firefox-mobile/ After a couple hours of politely arguing with multiple Sprint representatives a couple weeks ago, I was able to correct an error that extended my family's Sprint wireless contract for another year.  So, our current family plan will expire on our three phones by the end of this month.  That ... http://blog.epkphoto.com/2008/06/12/sprint-contract-expiring-soon/ Yet another year at RIT has come to an end.  After an adventurous time storing furniture in Rochester and loading my car to its brim, my Dad and I are on our way back home to Virginia.  Overall, my third year at RIT was an excellent one.  Now that summer ... http://blog.epkphoto.com/2008/05/25/on-the-way-home/ As promised, I have implemented a new design on epkphoto.com!  The home page is pretty much set for the time being, but many of the other pages have quirks that I will be ironing out over the next week or two.  Going from a totally dark, black layout to this ... http://blog.epkphoto.com/2008/05/12/new-design-is-live/ In a couple spare hours recently, I have been working on a total makeover of the visual presentation of this website, epkphoto.com.  The new design is nearing completion, so I felt it may be a good idea to post this little warning before I make it live.  So, in the ... http://blog.epkphoto.com/2008/05/09/new-site-design-coming-soon/ This past weekend, I upgraded the server that runs this website to the latest version of Ubuntu, aka 8.04 Hardy Heron.  The upgrade was not without its flaws, but thanks to some significant planning and test upgrades on my part, I was able to pull it off with limited server ... http://blog.epkphoto.com/2008/04/29/server-upgraded/ A man who needs little introduction these days is Al Gore.  I have been following his more recent efforts to give the world a wake-up call on the climate crisis we face.  Recently he presented his latest set of slides and motivational words to an audience at a TED conference ... http://blog.epkphoto.com/2008/04/10/listen-to-al-gore-i-mean-it/ If you had not guessed, I returned safely from my 10 day spring break leadership trip to four cities in Europe.  I have been editing my photos from the trip as I have had the chance.  Sorry for the delay, but to say the least I've had a lot going ... http://blog.epkphoto.com/2008/04/08/photos-from-europe/ This is a quick post since I'm about to head out the door.  I'm going to be traveling in Europe for the next 10 days.  If you need to reach me, it will probably have to wait.  I will return on March 10th, and that is the first time I ... http://blog.epkphoto.com/2008/02/29/in-europe/ I have had a Canon PIXMA Pro9500 inkjet printer in my apartment since mid-January.  I am very impressed at the quality of this printer, and it has done its part to re-energize my desire to create prints of my photographs in addition to displaying them in digital formats.  A few ... http://blog.epkphoto.com/2008/02/27/plus1-for-canon-customer-support/ Call me crazy, but a little under a week ago I installed Fedora 8 as a second operating system on my new MacBook Air.  It was not a small undertaking since this computer is essentially hot off the press with several brand new internal components that are not yet natively ... http://blog.epkphoto.com/2008/02/23/fedora-on-the-macbook-air/ So, a week and a half ago I received a lovely, little package in the mail.  It was a MacBook Air, Apple's newest, thinnest, and lightest notebook computer.  I can say, without a doubt, that this is the best laptop I have ever seen, used, or owned.  It is not ... http://blog.epkphoto.com/2008/02/23/macbook-air-first-thoughts/ At the request of members of the RIT Honors Publicity Committee, I put together a little write-up about myself a few days ago.  I had enough fun constructing the article that I'm posting it here for others to read.  It is a nice exercise to write about yourself every now ... http://blog.epkphoto.com/2008/02/18/getting-to-know-the-kerbster/ I requested my absentee ballot for the Virginia 2008 presidential primary on February 5th and received it yesterday (the 8th).  I filled it out with a witness present, sealed the multiple envelopes, attached more than enough postage (old stamps from my roommate), and sent it on its way back down ... http://blog.epkphoto.com/2008/02/09/absentee-voting/ I could not resist posting a link to a humorous tidbit about today's Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses.  Take a look at what many Virginians did today to get a laugh.  It turns out that some people in the good old Commonwealth missed the message that the Virginia primaries are ... http://blog.epkphoto.com/2008/02/05/oh-boy-virginia/