Peekaboo penguin

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I took advantage of the great weather and went to the zoo. It was fun to see the night exhibit before it closed, but there were so many kids!

So I setup a vimeo account after I got back from Hueco this past December. I had yet to post any videos anywhere except facebook, so I thought I would post one to my blog. Enjoy!

Jon v The Fin from Jon Keto on Vimeo.

Bengal Tiger

Originally uploaded by jonketo

Choi and I tried to climb in Goldbar this weekend, but we everything was seeping, there even some snow and someone had cut some trees down, so nothing was climbable. We turned around immediately and came back to take pictures at the zoo. The tigers were pretty active, so I snapped a few shots of them.

It has some new pics and a brand spankin’ new look!

http://mycatlovesmyshoes.wordpress.com/

I am trying a new little experiment to see the investment it takes to get another cat blog started. Who knows what will happen. I won’t be able to compete with icanhascheezburger or cute overload, nor do I intend to. Just want to post some more pictures on the interwebz.

The Beach

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For the last month or so I spent a day each weekend in Leavenworth bouldering. The weather has been consistently getting worse each time and that was emphasized with a slight drizzle last Sunday. It is probably time to just hit the gym and get fitness before heading to Hueco in December. It wouldn’t be good to try and send something hard and reinjure my hand before heading on a trip. At this point I think I will call it and be a gym rat for the next month.

On a good note, Eric sent a sweet V6 in Forestlands called Cruise Control. As much as we have different climbing styles he ending up climbing it very similar to the way I did it. He is getting stronger because I am not climbing like a tall person. This will be good for Hueco.

Seattle Sunset 7.24.09

Originally uploaded by jonketo

Back to staying up late, blogging and making panoramas! And integrati g flickr with my blog.

WordPress FTW!

I had a great epiphany this morning. Why do some work I am behind on when I could convert my blogger blog to wordpress? Obviously I didn’t come up with a good answer, so hours later, my blog has been converted. Here are the steps I followed.

1) Created an account on wordpress.com

2) Published my old blogger blog to blogspot.com as opposed to ketox.org

3) Used the cool import tool to convert my blogspot blog to wordpress

4) Exported the wordpress blog to and xml file

5) Imported the wordpress xml export to my wordpress blog at http://ketox.org/jon/press

I tried using the import tool on my hosted server ketox.org, but there were some errors, so I went through the additional step of exporting to a blog on the wordpress.com servers. This reduced any potential problems with servers and configurations that I saw on forums when I was trying to troubleshoot why it would not work my from my hosted server. I would actually recommend this method to others as well since the wordpress and blogspot servers can communicate with each other and if your wordpress version is up to date then the import and export should not have any issues either.

The second technical problem to tackle (or first maybe, since the conversion task simply involved clicking buttons) was to get all of the traffic still going to http://ketox.org/jon/blog to go to my new url at http://ketox.org/jon/press/. Using some simple mod_rewrite all the permalinks to posts and archive links permanently redirect to my new wordpress blog. For example, an old link to a post like this:

http://ketox.org/jon/blog/2009/01/new-year-2009.html

Will go directly to the new WordPress version! Awesome! The same is true for old archive links like this:

http://ketox.org/jon/blog/archive/2004_09_01_archive.html

Double Awesome!

After getting the redirects to work I spent some time going through the comments to delete spam and other comments. It was both good and bad, made me happy, made me sad. I got to look at the last 5 years of my life. It made me super glad I started this thing and has reinpired me to continue doing this. That way when I am 80 I can go back through it and remember all the funny little things that have happened to me.

Anyways, the new theme can be temporary. I chose it pretty quickly, so I can change it. I also have to go back through and fix up some images that have become broken over time. I figure this is just as good of a time as any.

Seattle Sunset
Originally uploaded by jonketo

I had to distract myself from a little work to take pictures of the great sunset tonight!

Clay Bar Results
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So I finally clay barred my car and waxed it. It is super shiny and smooth! I am not sure how quickly I will do it again, however. The process was fun for the first couple hours, but by the eighth hour I just wanted to be done. Here is what I learned:

1) Don’t worry about spots that don’t get too dirty, i.e. underneath the spoiler.
2) Surprisingly the front bumper is not too bad, the larger horizontal surfaces are the worst.
3) Addendum to #2, do the large horizontal flat surfaces first. You get the hard work out of the way.
4) The clay bar takes up the most time by far.
5) I should get a machine to help buff out imperfections next time.
6) Don’t clay bar and wax if you park on the street, wait until you get a garage. My car already has pollen on it. It hasn’t even been 24 hrs!
7) Talk to someone who has done this before on a ca like yours without help.
Having an extra set of hands and a smaller car with less features will make the process much faster.
9) Only in Seattle while cleaning my tires in a Safeway parking garage will I arouse the suspicion of Seattle Police.
10) I really need to get a 5D MKII to take pictures of my car at night …. but not really … I just need another way to justify it in my head.

All in all, it was a fun experience and I will probably do it again sometime.