Ramona Mainstage – Ramona, CA – 2013.06.29
First time seeing Gary play, although I break out my Ho Ho Hoey CD every year. Great show.
Yeah, I’m really lousy at regularly updating my site. More live music photos on photos.dougreese.com.
Category: Photos
I used to dabble in photography. I still like taking photos, but processing takes more time than I have lately.
Photos: Warrant @ Ramona Mainstage
Ramona Mainstage – Ramona, CA – 2010.10.30
You remember Warrant, right? Cherry Pie, Down Boys, Heaven? No matter what your memories of them from the 80s and 90s, these guys are still rockin’. Check out the full slideshow of all photos from this show. A few more of my favorites and some brief photographer notes after the jump.
I am way behind on processing show photos from 2010. I am going to try to post at least some of my backlog before the end of the year.
Cover Photo – The Attached Family Magazine
Following up on the Attached at the Heart Through the Years photo contest, my winning photo is featured as the cover photo for the Spring 2010 edition of The Attached Family Magazine.
I didn’t mention this before, but this photo was not posed in any way. Our daughter assumed this position on her own as my wife moved to cradle her little body. Luckily the camera was close at hand, as seconds later she either woke up or rolled over — I can’t remember any more. I’m sure my wife can still describe every detail of those fleeting but precious moments, though.
Attached at the Heart Through the Years
This is somewhat stale news, but since updates here are few and far between these days: My wife entered one of my photos in Attachment Parenting International’s “Attached at the Heart Through the Years” photo contest in October, 2009. This image was one of the favorites — photo 2.
I’m going to be featuring photography more prominently on this site in 2010.
Google Reader Confuses N95 with iPhone
One of the killer apps I use daily on my N95 is the mobile version of Google Reader, http://google.com/reader/m. Until recently this was one of the best mobile web apps around, in my opinion, as the pages were extremely lightweight, easy to read and fast to load. This is roughly what the mobile interface to Google Reader looked like on an N95:
I say “looked like” because the user experience changed one week ago, coincidentally right around the time of the iPhone 3G launch. Some users, notably all iPhone and at least some Nokia phone users, are now automatically redirected to the Brand new Google Reader for iPhone, http://google.com/reader/i/, which looks like this on my N95:
Yes, it’s all Web 2.0 and Ajaxy and stuff, but it’s also bigger, slower, less efficient, and less effective as an application for me.
Note these screen captures were done using Safari on a MacBook Pro, not on the actual phone. You get the idea, though, as this is still a good representation of what the pages look like on the phone. The images actually look nicer here. For example, the stars, which are clicked to “star” or highlight an item, don’t show up on the N95.
I’m not the only one experiencing disappointment about this change, although it seems most of those upset are using an iPhone and not an N95 or some other phone. While I believe it’s wrong to force the /i interface down users’ throats for anyone, even iPhone users, it’s a bit disturbing from a development/QA perspective that non-iPhone devices are affected as well, and that this has been the case for a week now.
Unless this is intentional.
Assuming it’s not, the reason non-iPhones are affected is likely related to the browser user agent on the Nokia phones:
Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; Series60/3.1 NokiaN95-3/20.2.011; Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 ) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413
The N95 browser advertises itself as Safari, probably because it uses Apple’s WebKit. It also very clearly shows that this is a Nokia device, and not an iPhone.
The only response from Google so far has been:
Thanks for your feedback on the recent changes to Google Reader for your iPhone. Could you all confirm that you are using the latest version of your iPhone’s firmware? The latest update offered by Apple improves performance significantly and using Google Reader should not cause poor performance, even on EDGE iPhones.
I’d also like to let you know that we hear your feedback loud and clear regarding allowing the original, HTML version of Reader on your iPhone as an option. I’ll post an update to this situation shortly. In the meantime, please let me know if updating to the latest version of your iPhone’s firmware doesn’t solve the issue.
Not much help to me. Can I just have access to the /m interface again?
Additionally, navigating to the original article from the /m interface results in a page that is tailored to a small screen mobile device, which looks something like: