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Aragon Ballroom, Chicago
It was this last Friday, (10.11.02), and my best friend Aisling and I had early classes that day, so we got to the venue at about 2:30ish to wait in line (the show was general admission). Some nice girls offered to hold our spots in line (which formed in the side alley), so the two of us started walking down Lawrence, where the front of the theater is. All of a sudden, I saw a guy with light chin-length hair get out of a van and walk into the lobby (which was open), and I realized it was Nikolai, so we said hello and he stopped to chat with us a bit. He's very soft-spoken and nice; he asked each of us our names. He's not as tall as I expected him to be, but he's very handsome. It was very cool because no one else was there. A few hours later, the girls offered to hold our spots again, so Aisling and I took another trip to the front of the theater. This time, the crew people called us over because apparently they had a bet going on as to how old I am (???). Anyways, we were standing talking to them and the huge green tour bus pulls up, and out comes Nick (who has THE bluest eyes ever), who just walked straight into the Aragon, and Albert and Fab, who do the same thing. Then Julian came out, and by this time a bunch of people had figured out what was going on and ran over. He was very nice and very accomodating of all the fans' requests (I actually expected the opposite of him, for some reason), and he did the cutest smile in our picture together. A very cool guy. Some drunk kid there kept yelling "Hey, Jules! I got beer! Let's get loaded after the show.." and things of that nature, and Julian kept rolling his eyes and saying "No thanks, man, I'm good." We ended up getting second row, right in front of Julian, and the show was amazing. They started with NYC Cops, and ended with Take It or Leave It. After the show, I realized my cell had fallen out of my purse, so a very nice security guard (I love you, Mike!!!!) took me back into the venue and I actually got to go backstage really quickly, but I didn't see anyone except for Matt Ramano, whom we'd already talked to earlier. (Some girl had been like "Matt, for my picture, can you jump into my arms?" and he was like "No, I don't think so." It was funny. He's a nice kid). Anyways, I went back outside and Aisling and I hung out with some cool girls we met (Hi, Rahill, Hailey, and Emily Stroke!!) by the buses. Mike (security guard extraordinaire) ended up finding my phone, bringing it to me, and then making sure that we were there when Albert came out. Albert is so cool, very laid-back and nice. He told us that he "was actually sober that night," and stayed out and talked to people for a while. Then he left for the afterparty. A while later, Fab came out, but just drove away, and we decided we wouldn't even bother waiting for Nick because a person who's THAT beautiful probably wouldn't bother coming out anyways. So... That's my story.
kee_bat :: 2002 :: Comment / reply
Jan10
Ew, bogus squirrel rat crossbreed... surely that's just got the mange and lost the fur on it's tail though? It's a bit of a scrappy picture, could be some potatoshopping going on too.
Also WOO, cheers Andy, got my webcam up and running in the end - I think it must have been running before I realised. Nothing very exciting to see right now, though I have a live video feed of the Folkestone sky (the camera's stuffed in a corner out of the way, pointing upwards). Maybe an interesting seagull will fly over.
That's just a grab, not a live picture obviously. Going to update this with what I did and how I got up and running, and gotchas I found along the way. Humungous thanks to www.itchypaws.co.uk for talking me through all this, that's who I'm mostly paraphrasing below. My setup is Linksys WVC54G wireless network camera and Netgear DG834G wireless ADSL modem firewall router, here's how to make things work:
Reserve an IP address on my network for the camera - the router is a DHCP server, but I want the camera to have the same IP address each time things are rebooted. On the router admin page this is under Advanced -> LAN IP Setup. I set it to 192.168.0.2 as this is what it defaulted to.
On the "Services" menu on the router admin page, add a custom service with these attributes:
Name: Camera
Type: TCP/UDP
Start Port: 1025
End Port: 1025
The router admin page link is to my internal IP address, the default address for the router. If you've got the same router as me and you're at home, it should link to your router - if not, I don't know where it goes, not to me or my router anyway. When I forgot that address I Googled for netgear router default ip address, you'll find the default password there too, hope I've remembered to change mine...
On the "Firewall rules" menu on the router admin page, add a new inbound rule with these attributes:
Service: Camera (TCP/UDP 1025) (selected from the pulldown list)
Action: Allow ALWAYS
Send to LAN server: 192.168.0.2
WAN users: ANY
And that, friends, should be that. Now I had a few hiccups along the way that drove me mad. Somewhere in my home network, something was caching IP addresses. So, the camera was working when I thought it wasn't working, this drove me absolutely spastic. Have confidence in these instructions!
More things I learned here, when I remember them...
A few more points about the camera, things that are annoying about it. To get a picture from the camera over the web, you have to be using MSIE. This is outrageous, and I'd recommend NOT getting this camera for that reason. There's currently no way to get even a static picture on a web browser if you're using another browser. It would be great to be able to grab a picture or video using the PSP, even if just to show off to people how modern our household is, but you can't do it. There's some "downloading and recording scheduling" software that comes with the camera, which can grab you an image or show you video, but you won't necessarily have that installed everywhere you might want to see the picture. I've emailed Linksys support to see if they'll update things, I'm sure they will. Also annoying is the way the camera comes bundled with some dynamic dns software that you have to pay for - basically depending on your ISP at home, your IP address is likely to change every so often. To get a consistent link to the camera you need to use a dynamic DNS service, so I can give a domain name to the camera (I've got fg.dyndns.ws) and that will always point at the camera no matter if my IP address changes. I'm using www.dyndns.com, and they're free. If there's such a thing as a punter out there who knows less than me, they might have stumbled straight into the free trial with some other company that comes with the camera and ended up paying needlessly.
There are plenty of positive things about this camera, it's wireless, it has a built in web server (so doesn't need a computer at home to be on to view it), and it comes bundled with motion detection and "email me a video clip when someone's burgling my house" type stuff. I've not looked at alternative cameras since I bought this one, because DUH, I've got it now, but I would recommend you do before settling on one. Let me know how you get on.
2006 :: Comment / reply
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You sure you've got your iMac set up to get a dynamic IP address from the router's DHCP server? Sounds like you might be getting a clash of IPs on your network? Difficult to tell without seeing the iMac and PC. Maybe when I'm down in April I'll have a look if it's still a problem?
itchypaws :: 9 Mar :: 2005 :: Comment / reply
Also there's an xml feed of dhcp, a JSON feed, and a KML feed of dhcp , search my dhcp venue info, dhcp on Your Folkestone.
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