Got a couple walks in, a float around the lake in a kayak, and one of the things I enjoy the most which is sleeping outside in the nice fresh air. I have to thank my mom for letting me use her nice kayak since my aunt’s has a weight limit that I am just a wee bit over. And thanks to Lael for setting it up this year.

There were a few complaints about the state of the group camp site at Deception Pass State Park which could have been better but I won’t elaborate on those here. Seeing the people was the best part for me so without further adieu I will share some of the photos:

Now I had read about issues with the new WordPress 2.5 gallery upload feature that now uses Flash. Most of those issues seemed to be caused by permissions and plugins though; server-side issues. My problems are not at the server as a Windows based computer seems to work just fine. At home I am still running Linux Mint which I have run since about December. I updated to the latest Flash 10 build and I still had the same issue.

The problem for me was I would get the screen to select files to upload but as soon as I selected one or more and clicked ok, the browser (Firefox 2.0.14) would stop responding and eventually I would have to kill the process. I finally dug around on the WordPress forums and found something relating to this issue on a tracker from the days of the Release Candidate 2.5 version. Apparently someone made a plugin to disable the flash part of the uploading process. That is the solution for me. The fact that it took me so long to find the solution because there are so many other issues with the Flash Uploader is quite disturbing. The discussion on the bug tracker is also of interest because it seems the developers did not want to include a setting to turn off the Flash Uploader because it might make people think they didn’t have confidence in it working. Well if it doesn’t work in quite a few cases then I don’t see why you would have confidence in it!

Ok, so now I can upload photos so I can finally get around to putting up some of my trip to Singapore in April.

Sometimes a picture does say it all. I could easily see this happening if we don’t stand up for net neutrality!

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As you can see, not all of Jamaica was ravaged by Hurricane Dean.

I rode a couple roller-coasters — some of the bigger few that I had never tried before because I was too scared. Now I can just say I don’t like them. I don’t mind the speed, it’s the jerkyness of the whole thing. Having my neck thrown around by the sudden movement just isn’t my thing. Second day I got to go to the water park which was more my style. I got some sun and got to experience it free since she could bring a guest in.

Throughout the days and later the last night I met her coworkers and friends. Some from Jamaica, one from Trinidad, some from Turkey, and some from Moldova. Here are a few photos from that trip.

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After:

That’s it — nothing fancy but it was fun