Month: December 2008

  • Turkey Day Two – Adana and Kozan

    Turkey Day Two – Adana and Kozan

    ?stanbul to Adana, hiking in Kozan

  • Pegasus Air, Turkey

    Pegasus Air, Turkey Originally uploaded by jamfan2 — Sent via mobile. —

  • Sabiha Gokcen Airport, Istanbul

    Sabiha Gokcen Airport, Istanbul

    Sabiha Gokcen Airport, Istanbul Originally uploaded by jamfan2 Waiting to board our flight from Istanbul to Adana — Sent via mobile. —

  • Turkey Day One – All Over Istanbul

    Here’s the summary so far… I’m going to try to keep track of what we do, log-style, on the iPhone… Woke up early at 9, left the house at 9:30. Pastries, tea and OJ at a local bakery… Also more good Turkish tea. Kirk went off to a meeting, Steph and I took the tram…

  • Doerte Pouring Tea

    Doerte Pouring Tea Originally uploaded by jamfan2 Dourte pouring tea, Kirk looking on. Sunday evening dinner. — Sent via mobile. —

  • Local Market

    Local Market

    Getting groceries for a home cooked German dinner… — Sent via mobile. —

  • Istkalav

    Istkalav Originally uploaded by jamfan2 — Sent via mobile. —

  • The Blue Mosque

    The Blue Mosque Originally uploaded by jamfan2 — Sent via mobile. —

  • Tea With Malaysian Friends at Beylerbyi

    Tea With Malaysian Friends at Beylerbyi Originally uploaded by jamfan2 — Sent via mobile. —

  • Landed In Istanbul

    My first day traveling is almost over, and it’s been a long one. I started out on a 19:00 flight out of Newark, to Paris (CDG). The plane was delayed by the winter storm getting out of Newark, so on landing in Paris, I had already missed my flight. I was actually somewhat hoping I…

  • Testing Before (Possible) Departure

    Testing the email to wordpress feature before heading off. For some reason posts send via email are being classified as “pending review” by WordPress, instead of “published”. Something I’ll need to look into- I thinks it relates to the email address used to send the message… Things in EWR are looking ok still… Weather sucks,…

  • Setting Out to Turkey – If The Weather Holds

    Tonight I’m set to fly out of NYC, headed through Paris, on my way to Istanbul, Turkey. All packed up, ready to go – and now snow in the city. Hoping I can get out of here ok. Packing- For this trip, I’m taking two bags with me – my 40L Jack Wolfskin Alpine Pack,…

  • Posting From WordPress For iPhone

    Posting from the WordPress iPhone app. Just another way of blogging while on the go. — Sent via WordPress for iPhone —

  • Linking WordPress w/ Twitter t…

    Linking WordPress w/ Twitter to enable field blogging via cellular SMS

  • Testing Posting Remotely via Email

    I’m testing posting to the blog by emailing a specially created email inbox, which WordPress is set to automatically check, invoked by a server cron job. This will provide an additional means of posting to the blog from the field, where I may not have access to a full web browser with which to load…

  • Testing Field Flickr Posting

    Testing Field Flickr Posting Originally uploaded by jamfan2 In preparation for my trip to Turkey and Israel next week, I’m testing out posting photos from my iPhone, using Flickr, and the “email to Flickr” feature tied in with my blog. Next week, live blogging should begin… — Sent via mobile. —

  • Amazon iPhone App’s “Amazon Remembers” Feature Works

    Amazon iPhone App’s “Amazon Remembers” Feature Works

    After installing Amazon’s new iPhone app, the first thing I tried was using the “Amazon Remembers” feature. The feature is supposed to allow users to snap pictures of stuff they need to remember – kind of like an ad-hoc scrap book or shopping list, and then have amazon keep the pics, to look through later.…