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A few weeks ago I ran in the Revlon Run / Walk for Women, a 5K that raises money to fight women's cancers. I was originally planning on walking, but I decided to run instead. My final time as 34:54 and I came in 2,359th place out of about 65,000 people. I ran in honor of my beautiful, wonderful, strong mother who is a 5+ year cancer survivor.

There is still time to sponsor me, so far I've raised $220, but I would like to raise $2,000. You can click here to sponsor me. Thanks!

On Sunday I spent the day covering the historic landing of the Phoenix on Mars from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena. It was an exciting assignment for Wired that entailed four separate trips, one to Goldstone in the Mojave and three to JPL. Here is some of my coverage from the landing, click on the screen-grabs to read the articles:

Screen-grabs hosted by flickr.

• Trumbo This looks like a great movie about a great man who wasn't afraid to stand up for what he believed in. (tags: movie trailer trumbo dalton.trumbo)

I'm covering the Phoenix landing on Sunday from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Today was my second trip to JPL in as many weeks. I had a chance to interview two of the Mission Managers and I recorded them with my totally awesome Sony PCM-D60 using an excellent Sennheiser MD46 microphone and listening to it all with my Sennheiser HD 25-1 II headphones.

The first interview is with Joe Guinn, Mission System Manager:

My second interview that I recorded today is with Barry Goldstein, Phoenix Project Manager:

Screen-grabs hosted by flickr.

A funny anecdote: After interviewing Goldstein in Mission Control I asked him to move into some better light for a photograph with a good background. When he was walking over there I signaled Reuters photographer, Mario Anzuoni, to follow me so he could get a good photo as well. After I shot my photos Anzuoni took his, which is now up on Reuters. Here are some other great photos of the San Diego fire by Anzuoni.

Last week I took an early morning drive out to the Mojave Desert to visit NASA's Goldstone facility. Goldstone is one of three Earth locations of the Deep Space Network (DSN). The DSN is used to listen to and control spacecraft and has been around since the 50's.

A few days later I headed to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to get some photos of Mission Control and interview a lead technician responsible for the landing [click to listen to the podcast].

I will be covering the landing live on Sunday for Wired.com. My Mars landing coverage can be found here on Wired Science. Click on the image below to see the gallery:

• Chinese Wedding Photographed During Quake This is amazing, powerful and moving. Thankfully all the guests survived according to the comments below the post.

(tags: china chinese.quake wedding photography)

• LolCat of the Day Haha Crocs. (tags: lolcat crocs)

• Awesome POV Bike Display I want one of these. Actually I want two of them. (tags: pov microcontroller bike bicycle)
• Video From Last Weekend: Search and Rescue Training Put together by Jeff Lehman. Look out for me in a funny hat and on rope. (tags: sbsar sar cave rescue training)
• Remote Camera Trigger Mayhem A cool article from the Reuters blog about shooting a big horse race. Very many cameras all triggered remotely, ftw. (tags: photograph reuters pocketwizards photojournalism)

• Retired LAPD "Film Cops" May Be Replaced With Real Police I've always thought that the retired police that the film crews use to stop traffic don't properly enforce the laws due to their close relationship with the studios. It looks like they may be replaced with real on duty police officers. (tags: lapd filmla filming downtown.la)

I'm trying to get in touch with Dane Reese. He was an inspirational teacher when I was in High School in Santa Fe, New Mexico. If you know or if you are Dane Reese and you're reading this, click on the Email button on the left hand side of this site and let me know how to get ahold of him. Thanks!

UPDATE: I got in touch with Dane. He's doing well and just recently got his PhD in Education (Transitive Learning).