I have had my BlackBerry Pearl for about a year… and if you know me you know I am never without it (because i’m addicted to it ). I take pics with it of random things… like Macy’s Birthday Cupcakes, my lunch, or my cat. I blog with it. I Tweet with it.

Well about a month or two ago I got an email that one of my photos had been submitted for inclusion in a City Guide called Schmap.

Yesterday I got the email that I had been included! My photo is from a Happy Hour with co-workers at Tortilla Coast in Capitol Hill! (So follow the link and scroll through the list until you see Tortilla Coast!)

So it was about a year ago that I canceled all Verizon services due to horrific customer service. At the time I was told that I would lose my Flickr Pro account (Verizon + Yahoo! were somehow tied together… and Yahoo! owns Flickr). And for the past year I have been waiting for my little “pro” icon to disappear from my Flickr page. But it has remained! However, today when I went to my Flickr account there is a big yellow warning box at the top of my page telling me that due to not having Verizon internet service anymore…. my Pro status will expire Feb 1, 2009.

Haha! Good thing I am geting FIOS soon.

I liked the black/yellow/blue original scheme based on another site that I go to every once in a while, but everyday it started getting hard to read (I also think the black/yellow/blue looks really good on my macbook pro, but not so much on my Windows based machine. So I changed it! I have a few things to still play around with, but I think the grey/blue-ish/pink is better at least on the windows machine. (though in attempt to match it to my Flickr Badge it may be overkill and too Flickr-ish… I am sure it will be green before the week is over )

(also as a note I think Blogger is greatly superior to the Yahoo 360 Blog environment I migrated from (Number one best feature is the ability to add HTML/Java widgets, and move them around – which I do alot )

But there is one thing that Yahoo excelled at and that was the embedded poll that you could use in each blog post. at Blogger its a sidebar feature so its hard to tie it to a specific post.

Made myself sit down and tag all my photos in Flickr.

I have been pretty good in recent months, about tagging when I upload, but I had about 100 sitting out there from a while ago… that I never got around to.