anthonytrumbo.com

The heavy rains this morning have passed and have given way to partly cloudy skies. I really am amazed at how clear the water is. There are a bunch of minnows at the surfs edge which I think would mostly be hidden from view at the jersey shore. I’d like to thank my friend Crystal’s beach umbrella for providing me shade and my iPhone for allowing me to post this from the beach.

Figured I had time for a quick post from the just released wordpress for iPhone native app. If there is a random picture for the post it means I figured out how to add a photo to a post via the app.

I figured I should write a quick note using the mobile interface from my new iPhone, not some lesser iPod touch

So far everything has been working well which is good since I was in line for 4 hours.

 Seems I have been on a zoo kick lately, this time taking a trip to the Philadelphia Zoo while I was visiting home. I spent most of my time there in the rare animal exhibit as well as the primate house. Something is always intriguing about monkeys and their ilk. You can check out the rest of my pics by clicking on the image below:

As I sit at the airport waiting for my flight, I figure I should take a moment to update my blog. This past Sunday I took my first trip to the Nashville Zoo. I’m surprised it took me over almost 5 years to make my first visit, given my love of zoos and aquariums. While still small, the zoo is continuing to grow and has plans in place to continue adding more animals. You can see a number of photos in this flickr set.

I’m writing this post using the wphone plugin, after reading a blog post from Wysz. While I don’t have an iPhone yet, I can test with my iPod touch. Now if I could just figure out something to write about

This Sunday I was looking for an outside activity to enjoy the warm sunny weather. I hadn’t been to Cheekwood in a while and was delighted to see that they were having an orchid show. I’m going to give another go at growing a Paphiopedilum Pinocchio, which I was told was one of the easier orchids to grow and blossoms often. You can check out more pics of my visit to Cheekwood here.

Thankfully the Fantastico installation system did not take anywhere near as long to allow upgrade to WordPress 2.5 as it did to make 2.3.2 available. So being the maverick that I am, I decided to upgrade and hope for the best. So far it looks like everything updated fine.

It has been a very long time since I last posted to the blog, but since we just completed Spring Break, I figured it was the perfect time. I spent the bulk of spring break in Orlando, FL watching a couple of our school’s sports teams play followed by doing the Disney and Universal thing. My mom came down to join in on the fun Sunday night and we began our 4 day-6 park trek. While we were crazy busy it was a ton of fun.  We even were able to be in the Disney Family Fun Parade, though we are pretty sure we crashed it. To see photos of the trip, check out this Flickr set.

There have been a number of times where I have had a graphic that I needed to convert from a bitmap to a vector. Typically these have been logos or items of that sort. Until now that required an expensive program like Photoshop or Illustrator and a ton of skill. Now there is a web service that will do this work for you. VectorMagic is a project of the Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Lab and does a pretty good job at converting. So grab those logos and make a resolution independent version. Link found via Boing Boing.