Posting a picture from the camera phone is working quite well — as you can see from the one picture that I’ve posted. The phone, on the other hand, doesn’t work so well. It’s about two years old and has the capabilities from way back then. Writing text on the phone is, well, painful. The phone doesn’t do text messaging — it can receive them in a kind of a funky way, but can’t send them. So writing some text to go along with the picture takes a very long time and is quite frustrating. For instance, the phone wants to capitalize every word! So I have to put in two spaces at the end of a word and then backspace so the phone thinks I’m correcting a mistake and doesn’t insert a upper-case letter. I think it’s time to get a new phone. I’ll do some looking over the next couple of weeks to see if anything catches my fancy. Now that phone numbers are portable, I can go to any carrier and keep my phone number.

I was also thinking about a way to take pictures or video while driving. I did a search on camera window mounts and came up with a couple of interesting options, such as this one which hooks onto the headrest (sometimes this URL doesn’t load — try again). I could mount either the video camera or my digital camera on this thing. I’ve a remote control for both of them…. I could take a picture just as I crash while paying more attention to the camera than to the road! We’ll see what happens. My commute to work is 5.3 miles and takes between 12 and 14 minutes. The time difference has nothing to do with traffic — there’s never sufficient traffic to make a difference. The variable is that I cross a set of railroad tracks on the way. Sometimes I have to wait a few minutes for a train to pass. Occasionally it’s a long wait, particularly for trains coming into town as they are slowing down and sometimes stop before clearing the crossing. There are six stop signs going to work and five coming back. I don’t have to deal with any other traffic control. About two-thirds of the way the speed limit is 25 mph or less. There’s a half-mile stretch of 45 mph after the railroad tracks and before Ross Park. The rest of the drive is 35 mph. I think a video of the commute would be a useful activity (grin)….