Place's I Wanna Visit

Mostly they are world heritage sites, but I'd like to over my life time possibly make my to to some mixture of the following

• Angkor Wat - Cambodia
• Greece -- Any Ruins
• Italy - Where do you really start
• Any Aztec Ruins - Mexico
• Tikal - Guatemala
• Copan - Honduras
• Machu Picchu - Peru
• Egypt - Any Ruins
• India
• China
• Þingvellir - Iceland
• Masada -Israel
• Iraq - Any Ruins

A lot of it is of course archeological ruins, but hey I sort of liked all the older stuff. There are of course some general travel things as well

• Great Rift Valley- Africa
• Madagascar
• Death Valley - California
• Painted Desert - Arizona
• Nepal
• Barranca de Cobre - Mexico
• Uluru (Ayres Rock) - Australia
• Ellesmere Island - Canada
• Mt Kilimanjaro - Tanzania
• Altiplano - Peru

Many are stark yet picturesque landscapes. Or I can just complete my previous list of travel/photography sites. Maybe I should just say I want to visit every national park in every country of the world. Additionally every Historic, and Heritage site.  Then I can close this topic off. 

Favorite M$ Quotes

From an Network World Article that I recieved a couple days back some of my favorite quotes from M$ executives

• In A February interview, Gates says about his customers "Let's face it the average computer user has the brain of a spider monkey"
• Ballmer on Microsoft's standing in the marketplace: " We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference"

There are 15 of them in the original but these two realy speak to me.  Kudos to the Network World d00ds.

Fun With date(1) Command

-j flag is very very useful with the date(1)  command. it lets you do date math without messing with the system clock.

#!/bin/sh
now=`date -j +%Y%m%d%H%M`
newdate=` date -j -v+1D -v-2H ${now} +%Y%m%d%H%M`
echo ${now}
echo ${newdate}

This adds 1 day to the current date/time and subtracts 2 hours (yes I could have just done +22H instead) but this is for illustrative purposes. So now you can do date math without awk, perl, python etc. 

Useful format flags (man strftime(3) for full details)

• %a - abbreviated weekday name
• %b - abbreviated month name
• %Y - yyyy
• %H - hh in 0 padded 24 hour format
• %j - day of the year
• %M - MM 0 padded minute (00-59)
• %m - mm 0 padded numeric month (01-12)
• %S - SS 0 padded seconds (00-60)
• %s - seconds since epoch
• %u - numeric day of the week starting on Monday (1-7)
• %Z - Time Zone Name
• %z - time zone offset

DSLR Sensor Cleaning

I picked up an Arctic Butterfly from Visible Dust. Works like a charm and is kind of fun to use. A friend of my also sent me this link on cleaning a dslr Cleaning Digital Cameras

Places I wanna go snap pix

My list of let me go until I'm done places for doing pix

• Galapagos Islands - Ecuador
• Serengeti National - Tanzania 
• Masai Mara - Kenya
• Bharatupur Bird Sanctuary - India
• Bandhavgarh National Park - India
• Kanha National Park - India
• Royal Chitwan National Park - Nepal
• Kinbalu National Park - Borneo
• Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary - Borneo
• Sichuan - China
• Antarctica

Granted I wouldn't mind getting lost in any of the Canadian Top 10.  Heck send me to the US,Yellowstone, Glacier, Smokey Mountains.