PHOTO PHINISH
First, I’m happy to report that Al The Web Guy
appears to be completely over his recent serious
staph infection. He went from daily intravenous
antibiotics to oral antibiotics a few weeks ago,
then finished taking medications altogether about
ten days ago. Everything seems to be normal
again. We still have no clue what led to this
scary and potentially fatal infection in his
knee. He had no cuts and no previous knee
injuries. Whatever caused it, all is well again
and thank you so much to all the readers who
wrote me or him asking about his condition.
Now, the name of this week’s Update refers to
something most unfortunate. I tried to make the
name amusing, but what happened is not terribly
funny. Our Photo Gallery was hacked into and the
files so corrupted that the whole thing had to
come down. We have all the photos stored but not
the captions, and debated whether to even bother
trying to put the whole thing back up again.
Part One of my B-787 column had just been
published at usatoday.com when this happened, and
there was a direct link to the Photo Gallery from
the column. We’d already had over 10,000 views
of some of the Dreamliner photos in just 24
hours, so we hastily put that album right back up
again. My editor at usatoday.com responded
immediately to my request of a new hyperlink from
the column to the new stand-alone photo gallery
devoted to the 787 Dreamliner.
Right after that we put the B-777 album back up
and then just kept going, restoring other albums
the best we could, one at a time. This is, after
all, a personal gallery for Al The Web Guy and me
as well as a collection of photos for the public
to hopefully enjoy. All weekend, Al The Web Guy
has been doing his best to get over 400 photos
back up, having to guess in some cases which
album the photos belong in. My job is to
re-create the captions as closely as possible and
shuffle the photos into the right albums where
needed. When the gallery got shot down, we’d had
over 1.7 million views of all the photos.
Overnight, we had over 22,000 views. You can see
the counters on the individual photos and the
grand count near the top when you first sign into
the gallery, in case you’ve never noticed.
There were numerous comments on many of the
photos and those are lost forever, unfortunately.
My thanks to those of you who wrote such nice
observations and hopefully you’ll want to write
others.
When Al The Web Guy and I are satisfied with the
completeness and accuracy of the new Photo
Gallery, I’ll be asking readers for assistance
looking for typos, etc., but not just yet as
we’re still far from finished. It has taken us
the entire weekend and our work is still quite a
ways from being complete.
Most of the caption restoration was done by
memory. There is a new album or two, such as the
one of a military charter to Kuwait. You’ll
recognize some of the photos, but some have been
added from our collection not previously posted.
More photos will be posted later this week. The
link to the restored Photo Gallery will be
www.fromthecockpit.com/Gallery and we won’t
reinstate the link from our site
www.fromthecockpit.com until we’re satisfied it’s
as complete as it’s going to get. That should be
by next week at the latest, but you can have a
peek now at our work in progress if you wish.
I am writing this at 7:00 AM Denver time on
Tuesday, June 13th. Al The Web Guy and I are
headed, in just a few minutes, first to our
dog-sitter’s house to drop off Coco The
Pomeranian (Al The Web Guy and the dog are
already suffering from Separation Anxiety), and
then on to the airport where we’ll catch an
Alaska Airlines flight up to Seattle. After one
of my readers wrote to the Microsoft FlightSim
Team that he thought I would make a good
interface between Microsoft’s product and the
public, I met with four of them just after I
finished up my Boeing tour recently in Seattle.
I delayed my departure by a few hours in order to
meet them for lunch at my Seattle hotel.
We hit it off and now they’re flying both Al The
Web Guy and me back to Seattle to come see their
operation. We’ll meet with them, do dinner,
spend the night and come home the next day. I
don’t know yet whether Al The Web Guy and I will
or will not be doing anything business together
with Microsoft, but it’s certainly flattering
that they’re interested in talking with us. I’ll
let you know what happens, if anything, when I
write the next Update. I’ll have my camera with
me, of course, and hopefully we’ll be able to put
up a Microsoft album in our Photo Gallery.
In the meantime, this week the legal dust should
settle between me and my airline and I’ll let my
readers know next time where things stand
regarding my relationship with them. I’ve had to
be annoyingly cryptic about the whole situation
over the past several months, but I trust my
readers to understand this hasn’t been
deliberate. Rather, it’s been necessary for
legal reasons. I’ll be limited in what I can
say, but at least you’ll know basically what
happened in another week or so if there are no
more delays, and none are expected at this point.
So wish us a good trip, have a look at the
partially reinstated Photo Gallery here
www.fromthecockpit.com/Gallery and Al The Web Guy
and I will be in touch soon with another Update.
“The World At My Feet” and “Flights of Whimsy”
marketing test was a success and is now a
permanent offer in our Gift Ideas area at
fromthecockpit.com. Just $25 for both books,
shipped anywhere in the world for free for a
savings of $12.85.
Click here:
Gift Ideas
And with that,
Until Next Time,
Maintain Airspeed!
Cap'n Meryl
http://www.flyingfearless.com
http://www.fromthecockpit.com
appears to be completely over his recent serious
staph infection. He went from daily intravenous
antibiotics to oral antibiotics a few weeks ago,
then finished taking medications altogether about
ten days ago. Everything seems to be normal
again. We still have no clue what led to this
scary and potentially fatal infection in his
knee. He had no cuts and no previous knee
injuries. Whatever caused it, all is well again
and thank you so much to all the readers who
wrote me or him asking about his condition.
Now, the name of this week’s Update refers to
something most unfortunate. I tried to make the
name amusing, but what happened is not terribly
funny. Our Photo Gallery was hacked into and the
files so corrupted that the whole thing had to
come down. We have all the photos stored but not
the captions, and debated whether to even bother
trying to put the whole thing back up again.
Part One of my B-787 column had just been
published at usatoday.com when this happened, and
there was a direct link to the Photo Gallery from
the column. We’d already had over 10,000 views
of some of the Dreamliner photos in just 24
hours, so we hastily put that album right back up
again. My editor at usatoday.com responded
immediately to my request of a new hyperlink from
the column to the new stand-alone photo gallery
devoted to the 787 Dreamliner.
Right after that we put the B-777 album back up
and then just kept going, restoring other albums
the best we could, one at a time. This is, after
all, a personal gallery for Al The Web Guy and me
as well as a collection of photos for the public
to hopefully enjoy. All weekend, Al The Web Guy
has been doing his best to get over 400 photos
back up, having to guess in some cases which
album the photos belong in. My job is to
re-create the captions as closely as possible and
shuffle the photos into the right albums where
needed. When the gallery got shot down, we’d had
over 1.7 million views of all the photos.
Overnight, we had over 22,000 views. You can see
the counters on the individual photos and the
grand count near the top when you first sign into
the gallery, in case you’ve never noticed.
There were numerous comments on many of the
photos and those are lost forever, unfortunately.
My thanks to those of you who wrote such nice
observations and hopefully you’ll want to write
others.
When Al The Web Guy and I are satisfied with the
completeness and accuracy of the new Photo
Gallery, I’ll be asking readers for assistance
looking for typos, etc., but not just yet as
we’re still far from finished. It has taken us
the entire weekend and our work is still quite a
ways from being complete.
Most of the caption restoration was done by
memory. There is a new album or two, such as the
one of a military charter to Kuwait. You’ll
recognize some of the photos, but some have been
added from our collection not previously posted.
More photos will be posted later this week. The
link to the restored Photo Gallery will be
www.fromthecockpit.com/Gallery and we won’t
reinstate the link from our site
www.fromthecockpit.com until we’re satisfied it’s
as complete as it’s going to get. That should be
by next week at the latest, but you can have a
peek now at our work in progress if you wish.
I am writing this at 7:00 AM Denver time on
Tuesday, June 13th. Al The Web Guy and I are
headed, in just a few minutes, first to our
dog-sitter’s house to drop off Coco The
Pomeranian (Al The Web Guy and the dog are
already suffering from Separation Anxiety), and
then on to the airport where we’ll catch an
Alaska Airlines flight up to Seattle. After one
of my readers wrote to the Microsoft FlightSim
Team that he thought I would make a good
interface between Microsoft’s product and the
public, I met with four of them just after I
finished up my Boeing tour recently in Seattle.
I delayed my departure by a few hours in order to
meet them for lunch at my Seattle hotel.
We hit it off and now they’re flying both Al The
Web Guy and me back to Seattle to come see their
operation. We’ll meet with them, do dinner,
spend the night and come home the next day. I
don’t know yet whether Al The Web Guy and I will
or will not be doing anything business together
with Microsoft, but it’s certainly flattering
that they’re interested in talking with us. I’ll
let you know what happens, if anything, when I
write the next Update. I’ll have my camera with
me, of course, and hopefully we’ll be able to put
up a Microsoft album in our Photo Gallery.
In the meantime, this week the legal dust should
settle between me and my airline and I’ll let my
readers know next time where things stand
regarding my relationship with them. I’ve had to
be annoyingly cryptic about the whole situation
over the past several months, but I trust my
readers to understand this hasn’t been
deliberate. Rather, it’s been necessary for
legal reasons. I’ll be limited in what I can
say, but at least you’ll know basically what
happened in another week or so if there are no
more delays, and none are expected at this point.
So wish us a good trip, have a look at the
partially reinstated Photo Gallery here
www.fromthecockpit.com/Gallery and Al The Web Guy
and I will be in touch soon with another Update.
“The World At My Feet” and “Flights of Whimsy”
marketing test was a success and is now a
permanent offer in our Gift Ideas area at
fromthecockpit.com. Just $25 for both books,
shipped anywhere in the world for free for a
savings of $12.85.
Click here:
Gift Ideas
And with that,
Until Next Time,
Maintain Airspeed!
Cap'n Meryl
http://www.flyingfearless.com
http://www.fromthecockpit.com
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