Carl Hutzler’s Blog

Or frankly any environmental type portrait where you are trying to show something about a person through the photograph. I really liked seeing the thought process and failed attempts and what the photog did to adjust things given his 20 minutes with the athelete.

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2007/10/seattle-times-rod-mar-on-assignment.html 

No kidding. Just Google “Carl Hutzler” and check out the fourth result down. Funny.

On the same weekend as the Fall portraits, I also shot a wedding downtown. I think I captured a number of great memories for Jeremy and Jen. Click for larger images.

I shot a couple of families last weekend during a beautiful Fall weekend. I think we captured the day and people very nicely. Click for larger images.

I ran my second Marine Corps Marathon today on a cool and blustery day. I had a great race and beat my first marathon time by 12 minutes. I was hoping for a little better, but it was a tougher course this year with an extra set of hills thrown in due to construction on the Rock Creek Parkway. And this happens to also be Al Gore’s finish time when he ran this race in 1997…so I have some good company I guess!

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It’s evidently very new. I could not get it on my regular Gmail account, but I did get it on my hosted domain account….and I had to login and logout and re-login again before it showed in the preferences.

Haven’t tried it yet, but if Gmail’s IMAP works as advertised (and I expect it will) this is a fantastic addition to gmail allowing you to keep your inbox in sync across mobile devices, desktop mail clients, and gmail’s web client.

Follow-up: I tried it and it works just as you would expect with Thunderbird. I will have to try it with my wife’s hacked iPod Touch later. It’s late :-)

I am running my second marathon this Sunday, the Marine Corps Marathon. Its a great race through our Nation’s Capital. While there are some 35,000 runners which can make the start a bit crowded, the best part is the 100’s of thousands of people cheering us on. Its a great way to spend a few hours (well, 4 and a half or more in my case!)

Last year I ran the MCM and it was my first marathon. I was just there to finish. This year I would like to improve on my 5 hour 7 minute time and see if I can finish in 4:40 or so.

I just noticed the course is a little different this year. Instead of running through Georgetown on M Street and up the Rock Creek, they now have us run up MacArthur/Canal Road and then back down the Whitehurst. The rest of the race is the same.

If you want to come out and follow me around, I will be wearing a bright orange shirt with the word “Soccer” on it and black shorts. I should be in the following locations around these times (assuming race start time of 9:00am 8:00am)

• 5 Mile - Canal Road - 9:50a 8:50am
• 10 Mile - Kennedy Center - 10:45am 9:45am
• 13 Mile - Mall Near Smithsonian - 11:20am 10:20am
• 15 Mile - Tidal Basin/14th Street Bridge - 11:40am 10:40am
• 20 Mile - VA Side of 14th Street Bridge - 12:40pm 11:40am
• Finish - 1:45pm 12:45pm

You can also register here to get text messages or emails when I cross various milestones along the way. I am bib #18754. Wish me luck :-)

UPDATE: Race Start Time is 08:00 (not 09:00 hours)

According to Apple (and engadget.com) they have sold 1.4 million iPhones so far. But the interesting thing is that 250,000 of them are NOT registered for use on AT&T’s network. That is a lot of unlocked iPhones!

Are they all being used in the States on T-Mobile or are people buying them and shipping them overseas to places where Apple has yet to launch the iPhone? Likely the latter is my guess.

I wonder how much an iPhone costs Apple to make. I wonder if they lose money if they fail to get the rev-share from AT&T?

Down in Charlottesville today visiting my good friends Bill and Wendy and young Solomon. We had fun catching up last night and working on Bill’s website a bit. Went for an 8 mile run this morning and it felt good.  Not much else going on.

Took a cool picture of young Solomon. Enjoy.

As I rambled on about a few weeks ago, I really want to see the iPhone/iPod Touch devices open up for third party applications. And while Steve J said he was working on an API for developers to allow applications (and not just via Safari) which is good, I wondered what was possible today.

So last night, I took my wife’s new shiny iPod Touch and ran a little application/applescript called iJailbreak. This application helps open up root access and SSH/SFTP access to the iPod Touch. Once you have access, you can install files on the device.

First thing you have to do is point the iPod Touch’s web browser at a specific URL which has a special TIF image file. This file was created to exploit some sort of buffer overflow error in Safari. Once you do this, you can run iJailBreak.

After iJailBreak is complete you have access to an installer of a bunch of open source packagaes. I installed SSH and SFTP and was immediately able to access the filesystem over the iPod’s wifi connection. From there you can install other apps that come with the default installer like games, new skins, VNC client, etc.

But the holy grail in this little effort was to install the version of Mail that the iPhone comes with. After all, if you can’t do Mail on a wireless device, what have you? I found some links to the iPhone applications v.1.1.1 (if I had an iPhone I could have pulled the apps off of that device using similar methods). Once you have these apps along with the GMM Framework and a mobile mail preference bundle you can SFTP them to the Touch and ensure you make the Mail.app executible. And Viola!

I also installed the Calendar, Gmaps, Notes, Stocks, and Weather apps as well just for completeness. Oh, and I backed up the old version of Calendar from the Touch just in case I needed that version someday….but from what I can tell, I can revert the whole iPod back to the original factory firmware fairly easily through iTunes in case I need to someday.

So we now have an iPod Touch that can:

• Email
• Connect to my VPN or any of my customer VPNs
• Screen Sharing via a VNC client
• SSH/SFTP to any machine I have an account on
• Google Maps
• Ability to enter iCal events (not just view them)

…and even an OSX like finder a few other nice things. Not bad. Please let me keep it, Steve :-)