Check out some of the photos I took with my iPhone and my new Photojojo lens kit:

• The iPhone lens wallet
• The fisheye, macro, wide angle and telephoto lenses
• The iPhone 8x telephoto lens
• A mini tripod, quick spring clamp connector for the tripod and micro fiber cloth (all part of the telephoto package).

Right of the bat I was excited and started to open all the individual plastic packages and get stuff organized. I wasn’t to hot on the idea of sticking the magnet to the back of my iPhone, but for the time being that’s where it is. Since I’ve got a custom case with a wide opening, it fits. But I might opt for a different case to mount the magnet to in the future.

The Magnet

Each mini lens comes with three magnets, a black, white or chrome plated front to match your iPhones back case.

The Wallet

While all of the lenses have been out for some time, the wallet was just released and really was the driving factor to my purchase. Photojojo also included a bundled package when the wallet was released with a nice discount.

Overall the wallet is pretty decent, but I’ve got a few issues I’d like to address.

Issue #1

The brown strap which is meant to clasp the wallet closed feels a little cheap (I think it’s pleather). Now while I don’t expect real leather, the wallet itself is made out of canvas, but it feels really strong and durable.

I’m going to predict that the strap might wear real fast and might tear. Now that’s not my big concern of the strap, in fact I’d be okay with it if it didn’t have such a horrible snap/clasp. I have yet to get it to stay closed. Even when I put a finger behind the female end and push soft/medium/hard it just pops back out. I would have liked to see a higher end clasp or even a magnet latch.

Issue #2

The center interior has an opening with a magnet backer to hold the small lenses. It has a layer of canvas over it to give is some style. I was intrigued by the idea, but let down in the follow through. The little key chain magnet lens holders each lens came with seems to have a super strong magnet so that the lens won’t get thrown off by accident. But that wallet’s magnet seems to fall short of magnetic power. Is it because of the canvas in front? Maybe they should have inserted a thicker or more powerful magnet then.

I though about taking the wallet with me when I go to Dodger games (it also happens to be blue!) to use on my Dodgers photo blog InfieldBox.com, but the fact that I gave the wallet a few shakes and a lens fell out I am not so sure. I think I’ll just pocket a lens or two when I know I’ll be using them.

Conclusion

Now in no way am I saying don’t buy the wallet, I’m just letting you know there are some cons, easily fixable cons. But still cons.

So the wallet isn’t travel-able by itself, but a storage wallet at home or in your photo bag, sure!

I will still be using the lenses to take a bit more interesting photos.

Did some t-shirt cleaning today, throughout a huge pile, and gathered up all my various WordCamp shirts.

Sadly there a re a few of the above that I’ll be getting rid of.

The whole top row is going, unless anyone wants them. Top left is a small WordCamp LA shirt from ’09 (I’ve got my medium still). Next is a WPCult shirt from a camp I sponsored before I sold the site. Third would be Portland from ’08 which I didn’t attend but got shirt from Aaron at the first Vegas WordCamp. Last would be 2011′s Miami camp. Oh, and the 2011 SF shirt bottom right..

All shirts are Mediums and never worn or only a few times.

We ended up at Henry’s Pub for a few drinks before the speaker/sponsor party at Co-Merge. Took a few awesome photos of the speakers baseball jerseys, had a drink and called it a night.

WordCamp

Saturday came fast, and I was holding down the fort at 8am in the Smart room, er, Smart Bar. After nobody showed up for the first hour I took a seat in the dev tracked and remained planted for the rest of the day.

Not going to write much, but will say I enjoyed more than one talk and did get some helpful insight. Great job the the organizers Chris, Luke, Dre & Tony.

Really there is nothing wrong with the above, but I’ve got a few WordPress multisite installs running that mimic live sites that use wildcard DNS with sub-domains. So dealing with a local sub-directories becomes hard to test and build when the live site is running sub-domains.

So, this post will cover how I got sub-directory multisite installs working in Windows with XAMPP. I’ll also list some great posts which help me get to my final goal.

The Steps

1. First I am going to assume you’re using a Windows machine and have XAMPP installed.
2. Open the XAMPP control panel application and stop Apache. Be aware that late Windows machines might run it as a service, so check the box to the left of the Apache module.
3. Navigate to C:/xampp/apache/conf/extra or wherever your XAMPP files are located.
4. Open the file named httpd-vhosts.conf with a text editor.
5. Around line 19 find # NameVirtualHost *:80 and uncomment or remove the hash.
6. At the very bottom of the file paste the following code:

   
   <VirtualHost *>
       ServerAdmin admin@localhost.com
       DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs" # change this line with your htdocs folder
       ServerName localhost
       ServerAlias localhost
       <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs">
           Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
           Order allow,deny
           Allow from all
       </Directory>
   </VirtualHost>
   

   With out that line of code you will lose access to your default htdocs directory. IE. http://localhost/ will be inaccessible.

7. Now you can copy and paste the code above below to add your Virtual Host directories. For example I’m working on a site called Eatery Engine so the following snippet will allow me to work with sub-domains on my local install:

   
   <VirtualHost eateryengine.dev>
       ServerAdmin admin@localhost.com
       DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/eateryengine" # change this line with your htdocs folder
       ServerName eateryengine.dev
       ServerAlias eateryengine.dev
       <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/eateryengine">
           Order allow,deny
           Allow from all
       </Directory>
   </VirtualHost>
   

   Notes:
   • change <VirtualHost eateryengine.dev> to something like <VirtualHost wordpress.dev> or <VirtualHost wordpress.loc>.
   • Be sure to change your ServerName and ServerAlias with the same as above.

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8. Next head over to your Windows host file to edit your HOSTS. the file will be located at C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts, where hosts is the file. Open it with notepad.
9. Look for

   # localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
   #	127.0.0.1       localhost
   

   and add the following just after that line:

   # localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
   	127.0.0.1       localhost
   	127.0.0.1       eateryengine.dev #change to match your Virtual Host.
   	127.0.0.1       demo.eateryengine.dev #manually add new sub-domains.
   

10. Restart Apache and test everything.

Final notes

Be sure to do a fresh install for any WordPress Multisite installs that may require sub-domains.
And thanks to Tildmark and some of the comments for finally pointing me in the correct direction. This old MU forum post and this stackoverflow post also helped.

And please if you’ve got questions or comments, leave them.

I recently started following his blog around the time Clayton Kershaw called out Parra, I was there when he waited till the sixth inning to “throw a close one” inside to get back at his home run in the previous game against Hong-Chih Kuo after getting hit.

The Team

It was held Saturday Sep. 11, 2012 at Big League Dreams in West Covina. My girlfriend and myself joined The LFP Facebook team and was graced with some great teammates and an upcoming celebrity in the Dodgers organization.

Josh Macciello for the Dodgers

photo by John SooHoo

The Tournament Gallery

These are the best photos I was able to get while still playing, luckily Dodgers photographer Jon SooHoo was there to capture some great shots, including one of yours truly pitching.