Built in 1799 by Alexander Outlaw for his son-in-law Joseph Hamilton. Both of these men were instrumental in founding the States of Franklin and later Tennessee. (ref: Historic American Buildings Survey).
This building was recently added to the Tennessee Preservation Trust's "Ten in Tennessee" list...a roster of some of the state's most endangered historic sites.
Well, I can officially release it now. This is a video I did back in May for News 2's video contest for the "Best Spot" promoting Storm Tracker. The contest promised $1,000 to the winner for the 30 second spot and the actual ad would be aired during the season premier of Lost.
Well, I won the contest with this spot. I got my $1,000, but the spot never aired. During the change in management at WKRN during the time of the contest, the choice was made to not show the spot.
Ah well. The fine print said they could change the rules whenever, so...it happens.
Anyway...here is the spot. During the making of it, I learned one thing...30 seconds isn't a very long time.
I'm on vacation this week down on the Gulf Coast in Florida. It's a nice little spot between the tourist traps of Destin and Panama City (places I'd prefer to avoid anyway).
The iPhone is finally activated. After 38 hours, I was able to use it. AT&T botched my transition big time. When I went through the initial activation process, it disabled my old phone almost immediately. Hence, I was without a phone for the entire trip down to Florida. I had many discussions with AT&T support. I even asked specific questions...such as, "is there any feature on my account that would conflict with the iPhone plan?" I had read from several other blogs that they had similar problems because of this. After the 24 hour mark, they actually figured out that I did have a feature that conflicted with the iPhone plan. All of the other representatives whom I had talked to previously apparently didn't realize this...even though I ASKED THEM THIS SPECIFICALLY. They just kept saying..."wait 24 hours and it should work."
At the 36 hour mark, I had enough (well...I had already had enough). I finally got to someone who knew what they were doing. They apparently had to activate my plan manually. I'm not sure why, but that's what fixed it. I'll be writing AT&T and recommending this person for a raise.
Having said all that...the iPhone is great. It's all I thought it would be and more. I may give a further review later. As I said...I'm on vacation.
In the meantime, here's a picture of a family on their front porch who I came across in southern Alabama on the way to Florida.
Yep. I got one. Thanks to the help and diligence of mDave of NashvilleFeed.com. I also saw Rex Hammock walking around taking pictures and Pink Kitty somewhere back in line.
Interesting day to say the least.
This was the first half of the line:
Right now I'm waiting on the newest version of iTunes to download so I can activate this thing.
Update - 9:40pm: The new hotness has yet to be used. Why? Because activation is taking several hours. I do understand, though, as at least a million people are trying to activate theirs at the same time. However, it sucks that my old phone was automatically deactivated well before the iPhone has been activated (I'm actually already an AT&T customer).
