Okay this meetup could potentially be cool. Also the venue is in a convinent location, and I’ve never been there, so I’m willing to try something new out. I think we should plan a blogger takeover. 😉 But really, if you plan on going let me know and maybe we can carpool or eat or something.
Playing
The now playing section is now being pinged again.
Slimbrowser
Just found a quite nifty add-on for IE that gives you nicely done tabbed browsing, a sweet search bar, pop-up blocking, some auto-login stuff I haven’t played with yet, and a page zoom. Sound like what you’ve been waiting for? It uses the same engine as IE, so I see now reason why this shouldn’t replace it for me. My only compliant so far is it won’t let me reorder my links toolbar, but I can live with alphabetical. Did I mention it’s freeware? Hat tip: Dougal Campbell. Okay favelets don’t work. Bummer.
Just An Arm?
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen all day:
Saddam’s doctor called a meeting of all the Saddam’s doubles.
“Men, I’ve got some good news and I’ve got some bad news. The good news is Saddam is still alive. The bad news is he lost an arm.”
New Yahoo
Saw this via Simon and I must say that I’m quite impressed. The interface is clean, the results are an ordered list and there’s all sorts of nice features and semantic goodness. Plus I show up twice on an image search for “photomatt.” If they had good toolbar this could definitely replace Google as my main search squeeze, unless of course Google comes back with something new, exciting and neat. While we’re on the subject, could someone tell me why I keep getting hits from a MSN search for “google.net”?
The Anti-Photobloggies!
I guess the cat is out of the bag now. In the fine tradition of all the other blog awards out there, I am proud to announce the Anti-Photobloggies, the world’s coolest photoblog awards. What’s going to be neat about it (I think) is that in addition to sites, individual photos can win awards. So go check it out and spread the word.
Houston Craig’s List
Well all the “cool” cities have had these things forever now, Houston is finally catching up. Hat tip: Leia.
Where’d it Go?
I just noticed that an hour is gone! Okay, now I really need to hurry up and get things done. This has been an incredibly productive weekend, but you’ll have to wait a few days to see all the reasons why. 🙂
Whew
That was nice. Pictures up.
Gallery: 4-6-2003
Auto-imported from old gallery:
Oot and Aboot
Well I’ve spent most of my day taking care of cat mishaps, spring cleaning, and over here, and now it’s time to spring from my cave into the world, and a birthday party tonight is the perfect excuse. I’m supposed to be providing some music, so I better go so I won’t be late(r than I already am).
For Great Justice!
“Again, thank you all so much for the Cybertron sized responce to our story. This is so amazing.” Optimus Prime’s Weblog. Hat tip: Anil.
A Little Late
I totally missed this this April Fool’s gem. In a perfect world Jon would ping Weblogs.com when he updated and roll to the top of my link list.
miniBB
I’ve spent all night hacking miniBB to have some semblance of standards compliance. I like it a lot because it’s simple and easy to get around, but the coding style (or lack thereof) in the source is really painful. In addition to no formatting of the PHP, the HTML suggests a lack of a basic understanding of markup languages, with enough nested tables to curl your toes. But guess what, it validates. On that note I would like to announce that the WordPress Support Forums are now up and humming along nicely.
Previously Reading
The Reading sidebar now has an archive page.
My Own Medicine
What’s good for the goose… St. Thomas High School (which I didn’t attend) is now compressed and loading using the zlib method which has grown on me since I wrote that article. STHS is the one major client I have that I don’t host (hence the non-mod_gzip compression) which made things very interesting yesterday afternoon when their host moved the site onto a server with PHP 4.0.6, breaking most everything in the process. However the host was very helpful and they handled the situation quickly, upgrading within an hour or so.
PhotoPal
This code really tickles my fancy. If I were starting a photolog now this is what I’d use, but 5596 photos later the prospect of converting is not trivial. I hope this trend of well-designed web applications continues.
The Ones That Almost Made It
So you’ve seen the ten that were chosen from a pool of over five thousand, but wouldn’t it be interesting to know what photos didn’t quite make the cut? Here’s the story of the six photos that almost made it:
- 6-1-2002, Rachel — I really like this photo but it’s a tad washed out in the colors, though nothing that couldn’t be tweaked I suppose. In the end it was just pushed out by stronger candidates.
- 1-19-2003, Sarah C. — This is one of the more interesting ones from the photoshoot with Sarah. Again, I like the shot but the contrast is a too high on her face, and overall it’s blurry due to the lack of light. Gotta love the hair though!
- 2-20-2003, Duck — A fairly recent photo that has some pretty interesting elements. I especially like the duck behind the main one that’s checking everything out. I also enjoyed these subjects because they didn’t attack me like the geese did.
- 2-16-2003, Wood — Sarah W. swears she took this photo even though I’m pretty sure I did. The whole day is worth checking out as a lot of the photos came out very well.
- 2-16-2003, Sauce — A cool picture of something hot.
- 3-23-2003, Trees — I was extremely close to putting this one in, as personally I really enjoy this photograph. In fact it’s my desktop right now. There’s just something about the contrasting colors and shape of things that tickles my fancy.
10 Photos
I cannot describe the thrill I felt when Rannie asked me if I wanted to participate in the latest 300 Exposures Project. Well my ten selections are now online. I put a little story with some of the pictures, something the photolog format here doesn’t really lend itself well to, so go check it out even if you’ve already seen the pictures I’ve chosen. And leave some comments so I don’t look like a dork ;).
Done!
Stick a fork in me, because I’m done. My second paper has been handed in and my weekend starts now. Hallelujah! This weekend is looking good with dinner tonight with a new friend who’s in town, a party Saturday, and hopefully oodles of free time to catch up on my reading (check the new sidebar) and work on some new projects.
Do you know that feeling when you’re so sleepy that you can be doing something and you close your eyes for a second and you immediately fall asleep and have a dream, usually quite vivid, and then your eyes open one or two minutes later with a jolt? That’s the state I was in when I wrote paper #2, so barring accidental genius and it getting high marks from the professor, I will not be posting this paper either. Don’t worry though, I have one coming up on psychological and ethical egoism that looks like it’s going to to be good, and I’ll definitely post that. For now, I need a long nap.