i’m guessing pics of ray smoochin’ josh won’t really make sense to a lot of those readers…

such an odd smirk on both their faces… the real power couple

they held that pose for a good 45 seconds while i was “focusing”

fun with focusing

chaunce always knows when the camera is on him…

yea… odd

the license plate looks REALLY close, but the driver has a I [HEART] JDM license plate holder and the heart part bumps up into the license plate, making it look like “XIJ” — i’m guessing his license plate has “XTJ” but the damn computer keeps seeing my plate number!

looks pretty damn close, eh?

notice of toll evasion

this is what i wrote the third time (i’ve started to just copy and paste my response and making updates):

The car that was pictured is not mine. I have never been in the San Mateo-Hayward area and definitely was not there on 12/12/11. I was currently in San Diego on that day — it is also where I reside. My vehicle is a black 2007 Honda Accord. This is the THIRD time this has occurred. The license plate in question is “5XTJ454″ — the bottom portion of the license plate in question makes the “T” look like an “I”.

a couple days later, i’ll get this:

We have reviewed the image in question and found that it was originally reviewed it in error. We have corrected our error and apologize for any inconvenience, confusion or frustration this may have caused.

it’s corrected, but not in the long term!

what ticks me off is that this guy (assuming it’s a guy) is getting away with it. my guess is he thinks he has a valid fastrak toll tag so he keeps on driving through these tolls, thinking he’s paying…

…unless he KNOWS he’s getting away with this… then it’s time for vigilante justice

wonder when it’ll happen again…

The domain gorirrajoe.com (joe) has reached 90% of its bandwidth limit (13637.19/15000.00 Megs).

it all looks sketchy to me so i show geoff and sure enough… i find out that i’m an accessory to pirating (hey! that’s the title of this post!). this wasn’t the first time i’ve heard of this — i remember when andy’s site got taken advantage of… to a much grander scale (75GB compared to my 15GB)

the reason? mp3′s…

all these mp3 search sites found my site and were downloading all the music i had on my site… and i thought i had been clever by changing the filenames to initials. turns out, the search sites were probably finding the actual metadata within the file. clever girl.

here’s a rundown of the bandwidth offenders:

thought it was clever with cryptic filenames...

• jm-pl.mp3 – john mayer – perfectly lonely
• tbatb-kioml.mp3 – the bird and the bee – kiss is on my list
• tr-k.mp3 – tim reynolds – kashmir
• cb-ooa.mp3 – chiddy bang – opposite of adults
• tdb-cw.mp3 – the dust brothers – corporate world
• p-ed.mp3 – pomplamoose – expiration date
• mrH-abh.mp3 – mr. h – anyone but him
• tdb-hrk.mp3 – the dust brothers – hessel, raymond k
• loveSoon.mp3 – this was actually a self recording by me (john mayer – love soon). i bet the people who downloaded it were so disappointed
• s_h-sh.mp3 – she & him – sentimental heart

404's and Heartbreaks

can you tell when i removed the mp3's?

so now my site is lonely again… i need to write again

even this image should resize and not cause horizontal sliders to appear:

ideally, the photo slides shouldn’t get cut off by the browser — they should at least resize until they are hidden from view. i need to work on that. that paper-like border i put around it kind of makes things difficult.

like i said, it’s a work in progress…

it’s neat tho — not needing to create an entirely separate template just for mobile browsers. why not just use what everyone sees and make changes to it accordingly! genius!

so here it is… much like jurassic park, there are a few glitches here and there but all will be ironed out soon enough

I wanted a theme where I could easily showcase my favorite pictures I’ve taken with my brand new sony nex-3. I came up with this sorta hybrid of a photo gallery/blog…

I may write a post of the backend php stuff I wrote in order to get this to work out the way it does

I’m also happy that the site is responsive… err… will be responsive. if you view it thru your phone, you’ll see the gallery frame a little too tall and a few other things… the hulu embed also breaks the container a bit

I’ve been meaning to learn responsive web design and I plan to implement stuff to this site… should be fun

btw, all the old posts are still here.. gotta love wordpress for that… so go and look around at all my ellipses and lazy writing

* mind the spelling and typos… posting from my phone

* i really should know these by now… but what are ya gonna do?

linking to the homepage

<a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>">...</a>

image references

<img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/FILE_NAME.jpg"
alt="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" />

dynamic widgets

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('WIDGET_NAME') ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>

then, in functions.php, add this:

register_sidebar(array('name'=>'WIDGET_NAME',
'before_widget' => '',
'after_widget' => '',
'before_title' => '<h3>',
'after_title' => '</h3>',
));

custom fields – mentioned before on my site, but just to have ‘em all together

<?php $VARIABLE_NAME=get_post_meta($post->ID, "CUSTOM_FIELD_NAME", true);
if (get_post_meta($post->ID, "CUSTOM_FIELD_NAME", true)) {
echo ("<img src=\"FULL_PATH_TO/$VARIABLE_NAME\" />");
} ?>

copyright

&copy; <?php echo date('Y'); ?> - <?php bloginfo('name'); ?>

required

• all in one seo pack
• google analyticator
• google xml sitemaps
• db cache reloaded fix
• hyper cache

dependent on project

• anyvar
• custom post limits
• shadowbox js
• wordpress related posts
• contact form 7 (+really simple CAPTCHA)
• audio player
• my page order
• widget entries

i need to also put frequently-used code… nice segue, joe…