Albert Banks

Well, Flickr can tell you! Yesterday, Flickr (purchased by Yahoo!) launched geotagging. You can now tag where you took your photos. There have been 1.2 million photos geotagged in 24 hours. What’s the big deal? Well, it further enhances the current tagging ability of photos. It is not a virtual memory - you now know the where, when and what of your albums.

Check out the map of our photograph taken in Times Square. You can see other people’s photos from the area. I have geotagged most of my images and will be adding more shortly.

A few months ago, my company Myjive launched a press site. Recently, we overhauled the style and updated our recent “drips”. Check out the Leak to see what we have been up to: ABC-HD, Dumb Luck Productions, Many Grains…

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Release Date: 05/09/2006
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After finally hitting big with Final Straw, the pressure was on to produce again. Showing cool under pressure, Snow Patrol triumphs with Eyes Open. The album is heart-warming and melodic, yet powerful and audacious.

Favorite Tracks
Chasing Cars
Onen Your Eyes
You Could Be Happy

This is the dreaded sports void known as Summer! It’s the time of year that no real sports are in season. Don’t try to convince me baseball is worth watching. There is no basketball or football. Hell, I’d watch Hockey at this point, but no dice. At least we had the World Cup for a month (not the most exciting game either).

Instead of watching SportsCenter in the mornings I now watch The Daily Show and/or The Colbert Report rerun from the night before. They are on at 8am and 8:30am, respectively, on Comedy Central. They are much more entertaining than baseball “highlights”.

Check out SportsCenter’s Top 10 Plays during the Summer:

10. Guy catches baseball (whoopty do…)
9. Guy hits home run (this is baseball, right?)
8. Different guy hits baseball (see above)
7. Guy fucks up fielding a baseball (dumb ass)
6. Guy doesn’t fuck up fielding a baseball (so…)
5. Guy from #9 hit another homerun (holy crap! two home runs by the SAME guy!)
4. Mascot does something (best play yet!)
3. Pitcher strikes a guy out (yawn…)
2. Guy catches baseball near edge of playing field (isnt’ that what he’s supposed to do?)
1. Pitcher catches ball hit right to him (so, he almost allowed a hit? bench him!)

The first NFL Preseason game is August 6th, if you can stay awake until then…

So, yes, this blog still works. No, I’m not dead. Yes, I’ve been busy. No, I’m not ignoring you. Yes, you can post comments - do it! No, I don’t want spam. Yes, I will post more often.

I am vowing to not let this site sucumb to Blogrot… I guess I just made that word up. I’m going to have to be a big nerd and post it on Wikipedia.

Blogrot
v. blogrot·ting

n
  1. The process of an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts
      published on a Web page
    a. Becoming damaged, weakened, or useless
    b. Decaying; becoming degenerate

As many of you know I played for the University of Florida Ultimate Club Team (UFUCT) in college. It was a great time and I made lifelong friends. We grew the team from humble beginnings into a Sectional and Regional force.

This year, UFUCT made it’s first ever appearance at Nationals. The 16 team tournament is the pinnacle of College Ultimate. Florida went undefeated in the tourney to become the 2006 College Ultimate Champions defeating Wisconsin 15-12.

Image Courtesy of Discraft

This team was truly special, accumulating a final record of 49-1. They won the Florida Winter Classic, Trouble in Vegas and Stanford Invite tournaments in the regular season. Florida continued their domination by capturing the AC South Sectional and Atlantic Coast Regional titles to become the top seed at Nationals.

Anchoring the team in his final season was Captain Tim Gehret. His dominating play on offense and defense showed he was clearly the best player in the country. It was made official as he won the 2006 Callahan Award, given annually to the top college player.

Check out CSTV for the broadcast of the final: Schedule

UFUCT, UFUCT, UFUCT U!