March 29, 2005
I got an account tonight and I have a bunch of invites to give away. Feel free to leave a comment or drop me an e-mail if you would like one. So far, I am not too impressed. The blog has less templating capability than Microsoft Spaces. If they want to make this popular, that needs to be high on their list.
March 09, 2005
I have plenty of storage and bandwidth available these days and because of that, I can't quite bring myself to get a paid account on Flickr. It is kind of a shame to miss out on what they have to offer. Perhaps someday they will offer a less expensive way for us to participate while hosting our own photos. Until then, this set of Photoblog Scripts and Programs look extremely interesting.
March 06, 2005
I have a new template in the works and I should be releasing it very soon. Until then, you dudes need to chill just a bit.
January 18, 2005
A few weeks Michael Heilemann wrote about his search for a gallery solution . And in my wanderings, I have found he is right: there seems to be no perfect solution. If I was dying to do things in MT, I would be looking to study Doug Bowman's tutorial, but since I am not, I won't do much more than admire it. PhotoStack has been my first choice. I think it is largely there feature-wise, it just needs some work done to make it easier to style. The best Flash gallery I have seen lately is SimpleViewer while the best flashy but non-Flash solution is Couloir (check out Photo fades and then some for more information.) I think the answer might lie in a combination of the last three if I had time to get it done.
January 10, 2005
I got a summons for jury duty recently. That is something I have been patiently awaiting for 20 years now. I have always wanted to do that...except that January is a busy time for us in the Library and this week especially would not be a good time for me to be away. Monday was even worse. But there was no way out of it (even being a county employee does not help) so away I went. I arrived at the Courthouse a few minutes early and found a parking space (behind the County building rather than next to the Courthouse). I went to the Main entrance, dropped all my things in the bowl at the metal detector, and stepped through. Then I had to explain to the security guard that my Lexar Jumpdrive Secure was not a weapon of some sort. Past that, I spent a few minutes wandering through three floors looking for a sign of where we were supposed to go. It turns out, of course, that we were to gather in the basement. Then it was sit and wait. Fortunately, I had added eReader to my new Treo 650 a...
January 07, 2005
One of my weblogs is getting bombarded by spam pointing to sites at GeoCities.com. I don't think this is going to work out very well (I would expect Yahoo! to be removing the relevant pages forthwith), but I don't think I am have to be too concerned about adding GeoCities to my blacklist. It hasn't been much of a blogging haven since they turned off FTP.
January 03, 2005
One of my Christmas gifts this year was an MP3 on Channel . And, being the techno-guy that I am, I wanted to use it to listen to podcasts . My problem was that most of them lasted longer than my average drive. It makes them mighty hard to listen to them in one session. After doing a little research, I found the solution: Mp3splt After a little experimentation, I found this command works best for me. mp3splt.exe -f -a -t 3.0 filename.mp3 Now it is simply a question of finding enough stuff to listen to.