Verification Codes...

I think more people have written things against these "verification codes" that many sites use to make sure you are an actual human being and not a bot... I really have no idea who came up with the idea, but what I'm sure about is that they are really annoying! But more annoying is when it makes just no sense to use them, like if you are logged in to a system that already validated you as a legal user, or that. Registering for classes for next semester I had one of those situations, I filled the courses I wanted to take next semester and it pops one of those annoying verification codes. I really wonder what is the reason to use this kind of mechanism in this case... so if anybody knows, or has an idea please let me know!!

This is a screenshot I took from the page when trying to register.

Photography... a dangerous activity...

Well, not really. Today I went out to read at Strozier, my roomates told me that there was a car upside down a block from the house and was, well, I'm not going to bore you with that... the point is that I took my camera with me to try get a shot of that, as a funny picture, but the cops where already there so I didn't even bother trying to take the picture. In the way to the library, I always walk by a park close to the apt. which has a little lake, I've thought on taking pictures of it before, so today that I was carring the camera was the perfect ocassion, plus, the sun was setting and the light was really nice. While I was coposing the picture I felt an ant crawling on my foot, when i turned to see, it wasn't *an* ant, apparently, I steped on an ant's nest and I was being attacked by hundreds of them, I try to get them off but around 20 of them got to bite me on the foot and some other 3 on the hand, for some time I was feeling like I had ants crawling all over me. I had to retreat and try to shoot the picture from somewhere else. At the end, the whole thing was worth and I got a really nice shot which is here.



On the way back, I decided to venture once more, but this time away from the anywhere where ants may be. Since I didn't had my tripod with me, I had to improvise with my backpack on the ground, but I did got a nice shot from a different angle.



As I was telling Bing the other day, one of the coolest thing of photography is the setting up and trying to find the best moment/angle/light for a picture.

Moving...

As I told some of my friends I have got a new apt, it is amazingly located, just two blocks from campus so I have a 10 minutes walk to class, and the area is really nice with very little traffic, some trees, birds and squirels around it, so there is usually nice sounds as opposed to Rogers Hall (my previous apt) which has all the noise coming from Tennessee St. (sirens and cars all day long, drunk people on weekend nights and tailgatin on game days). During the weekend I've been moving all my stuff to the new apt. since I don't have a car it had kinda take some time... I have set up a virtual tour of the place on my webpage with some pictures of it.
Something I have been impressed with this moving thing is how much s<beep>t one can accumulate over the time... I've only been here for a year, I only brought clothes from home, and now I have serveral boxes with random things, kitchen utensils, gadgets, books, etc. I wonder what it will be once I move back to Ecuador which might be either in one, two or four-five years from now, depending what I decide to do with my life in the next couple months.