I have been using the ShoZu image uploading application for some time now. I find that it is the most convenient way to upload images from my phone to my flickr account.

As can be seen from the list of added features quoted below, it appears that yet more, usable functionality has been added to the application. I am looking forward to trying out the "upload to addtional destinations" feature.

From the update notice:

• In addition to sending to your main photo sharing site, you can configure ShoZu to be able to upload photos and videos to additional destinations, like personal blogs, other photo-sharing services, and email addresses. To get started, sign in to your ShoZu account, select the "Photo sharing" tab, and click "Other destinations".
• We've added new features in the Java version of ShoZu that were previously available only in the smartphone version, including the ability to automatically synchronise photo comment threads from the web for reading on your phone.
• We've added support for the latest Nokia Series 40 Java handsets.
• On some photo-sharing sites, you can now reply to comment threads from your phone.
• In the smartphone version of ShoZu, there's a cost-saving option to upload "blog quality" photos, if desired, rather than full resolution images.

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Since November 2005, I have been using a Linksys WRT54G as a wireless bridge to connect two parts of my home network. The WRT54G runs on DD-WRT firmware (in 'Client-Bridged' wireless mode), which I find completely reliable - it simply just works. Last week however, as I decided to set up my trusted PrintMate+ print server, I discovered that a little fine tuning was needed with the DD-WRT setup.

The DD-WRT in 'Client-Bridge' mode is supposedly completely transparent. I.e. with DHCP turned off and assigned an IP address outside the range of the rest of the network, but within the same segment, the bridge will just connect to another router as a client. This other, "main" router must act as DHPC server and a device connected to one of the bridge ports will behave as if it was attached directly to the main router. What I discovered last week when I hooked up the print server to the bridge, is that the bridge actually blocks incoming traffic to devices located behind the bridge. In other words, from behind the bridge, I can ping any other device on the network, but I cannot ping devices behind the bridge from outside the bridge.

I started looking around to see, if I could come up with some fix to remedy this situation. First, I read something about disabling the firewall and loopback interface on the bridge.

This I did and it did not help.

Next, I came across this guide to setting up a DD-WRT bridge, which as its last step instructs you to telnet into the bridge and issue an proxy_arp command:

Apparently, this is nessecary because running the DD-WRT firmware basically turns your router into a Linux box, which uses multiple network interfaces. Altthough DD-WRT in bridge mode hides the difference between the LAN (network behind the bridge) and WAN (network in front of the bridge) interfaces, Linux still distinguishes between the two. The proxy_arp command makes the router forward (proxy) traffic from one interface to the other.

The above proxy_arp command did not work for me - it failed to execute. I then looked around some more and discovered that I just needed to issue the command for the network interface which is connected to my home network. I ran 'ifconfig' and found out that this is the 'br0′ interface and after a reboot of the bridge, the following command solved my problem:

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Camilla Stockmann & Maise Njor: "Michael Laudrups Tænder".

A re-read of "Snowcrash" by Neal Stephenson.

"Hooking Up", a collection of essays by Tom Wolfe. My personal favorite in the collection is the piece "Two Young Men Who Went West", which tells the tale of Robert Noyce and the start up of Intel (and subsequently Silicon Valley).

Morten Ramsland: "HundeHoved" - transcript of an interview with the author.

Thomas Rendell Curran: Thomas Rendell Curran: "The Rossiter File".

       

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A random selection of my images of Anna at flickr:

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