Biltmore Statue

I took this photograph on my recent trip to the Biltmore estate in Asheville, NC. Enjoy!

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I took this photograph in the Everglades while visiting Miami recently. The vultures were feeding on the carcass of an alligator.

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I took this picture on my recent trip to Florida while visiting the Everglades. This grasshopper was easily over 3 inches long.

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I took this photograph while visiting Miami last week. We were on a boat tour which departed from Bayside Market in downtown Miami.

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I spent some time walking around Lake Lynn in Raleigh, NC and got this good photograph of one of the local ducks. Enjoy.

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I worked on an classic ASP page today that will create a RSS feed for Gmail’s Random Signature feature to display a random quote. This new feature is located in the Labs section of Gmail under settings. Once you turn this feature turned on, you can add this link on your main settings page:
http://wadewb.com/WB/RSS/quotes/feed.asp

The feed above is viewable in FireFox and Safari, but not IE.

The code grabs 10 random quotes from a file with of about 300 quotes and tries to create 10 RSS feed items. Gmail currently has a limit of 96 characters, so the code ignores any quotes that will be over 96 characters. This currently averages between 5-7 good quotes.

Once you add this to Gmail, you have to compose an email, discard that email, then compose another one, before the quote will show up on the bottom of the  new email.

If anyone is interested in the source code, just let me know.

Here is the default quote feed that Gmail uses, in case you would like to switch back:

http://www.brainyquote.com/link/quotefu.rss

 

My co-worker has a pretty cool website with his photography here:
http://briandejong.com/MyBlog/?page_id=10

Be sure to check out his Landscapes, Smoke, and Space pictures. They are really interesting and cool!

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This is the first time my Cactus have flowered, so I thought I would share. I thought it was really cool.

Movies

Top 250
http://www.imdb.com/chart/top

AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI’s_100_Years…_100_Movies_(10th_Anniversary_Edition)

The Online Film Community’s Top 100 Movies.
http://www.cinemafusion.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/the_online_film_communitys_top_100_movies/

All-Time US Box-Office - Top 150 Movies
http://madeinatlantis.com/movies_central/charts/usa300.htm

Top Ten Superhero Movies (Spring 2008 Edition)
http://kjtoo.com/2008/05/20/top-ten-superhero-movies-spring-2008-edition/

TV Shows

Highest Rated Shows
http://www.tv.com/shows/topshows.html

THE 35 BEST SHOWS ON TV–EVER
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04272008/tv/the_best_shows_on_tv__ever_108106.htm?page=0

I saw this ship on the inner coastal waterway in North Myrtle Beach, SC and had to take some photographs. The American Spirit is part of the American Cruise line on the East Coast.

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