Same-Sex Marriage in California

I had read that the Supreme Court in California invalidated the ban against same-sex marriage, but it did not occur to me that it would effectively legalize it.  County Clerks in California will be issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in about a month.  Amazing!

People went nuts in the Castro the evening following the announcement.  Photos were posted by Jameth.

Emergency Party Button

I think I need one of those!

Quicken Mac 2007 is Dead, Long Live Quicken 2008 for Windows

Quicken Mac 2007 sucks!

I’ve switched to using Quicken 2008 (for Windows) which I’m using on Windows XP running VMware Fusion.

I wish I could get a refund.

Google Apps Mail Hosting

I’ve migrated the email hosting for netmonkey.net over to Google Apps recently.

For those of you who aren’t in the know, this is Google’s offering of Gmail for domains. Since they offer a basic package at no charge with IMAP support and lots of storage, it made sense to switch over to them from Tuffmail. It’s just me and my mother using netmonkey.net, so I don’t see the point in paying someone for something I can get for free (and still keep my domain).

(By the way, I have nothing bad to say about Tuffmail because they’ve been an extremely reliable hosting company for the past three years, but it is time for me to move on.)

Anyway, the only difficult part of the migration was the migration itself.

• DNS hosting for all of my domains, including netmonkey.net, was handled by Tuffmail at no cost. Since I’m canceling my service, I had to move to a new provider. Fortunately, GoDaddy also offers free DNS services, so it seemed like the logical choice, for now.
• I have a lot of email! I did a manual migration using Apple Mail which worked just fine, but it look quite some time to complete. Ideally, I would have used a migration script, but I didn’t feel like doing it.

I had to get used to the way that Gmail handles its IMAP folder structure, but so far I don’t have any complaints. It works exactly as it should.

Flickr Video

I recall reading some rumors about a year ago that Flickr planned to add video support, so I was not one bit surprised when it finally launched this week.

I think this is a great idea! I love the idea of having my videos and photos in one place.

So, here are a couple of videos I’ve posted. They’re nothing special, but it’s nice to get them archived up somewhere.

Thunder Over Louisville 2005

I was in Louisville with my sister, brother-in-law, and nephew for Thunder Over Louisville back in 2005. We were on top of a parking garage in downtown. It offered a pretty good view of the 4th Street Bridge over the Ohio River.

Back Home Again in Indiana by the White River Jazz Band

The White River Jazz Band was performing back in 2005 for the annual Strawberry Festival in downtown Indianapolis. I filmed this on the southern steps of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument.

I went up and talked to the banjo player.

She kept asking me whether she should smile or not while I took her photo. I hope she’s still performing; it was great to see her play and capture the moment in my photo stream.