I had one of those “once in a lifetime” trips this week when I went to New York City for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 2010 Inception Ceremony. This year being the 25th inception ceremony made it even more special.

Although you never seem to have enough time while there, visiting various sites around New York, such as Grand Central Station and Times Square, were as great as you’d expect. I look forward to visiting again to see more, though I doubt I’ll ever see “everything” the city has to offer.

Flickr Photo Set: New York – Rock Hall Inception 2010

Continuing my recent round of local trips to area attractions, I stopped into the the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum, located in University Circle, here in Cleveland, Ohio.

Flicker Photo Set: Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum

My dog is no doubt planning her revenge for taking this photo.

I love to travel, so I was especially happy when several members of the @Twelpforce team were asked if we’d like to attend the Direct Marketing Association’s 2009 conference in San Diego. Best Buy had won Marketer of the Year, primarily for our social media efforts such as the Best Buy Communtity and Twelpforce.

San Diego was great, and I have photos from walking around in my free time. The highlight of the visit was definitely the USS Midway, the longest serving aircraft carrier in the Navy.

I found a great little app called AutoStitch for the iPhone that came in very handy this week when I wanted to create panoramic views of the displays at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.

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The program works by allowing you to take a series of overlapping photos using the iPhone camera and “stitching” them together in one long, panoramic image. While you can find software to accomplish the same effect with more features for your desktop or laptop, I love the fact that you can create and save the panorama directly on the phone.

The only thing holding this $1.99 program back is the limited image quality available to my iPhone 3G camera. However, as you can see from the above examples, impressive results are still available despite the hardware issue.