Archive for April, 2008

New books purchased today: J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (to read with Evan), John Szarkowski’s The Photographer’s Eye, and Frank Warren’s compilation Post Secret. Looking forward to reading every page of each book. »

It’s not a full examination of every technical aspect of RAW vs. JPEG, but I show some of the reasons why I try to shoot RAW almost all the time, as well as some reasons why I sometimes shoot in JPEG instead. Some of the subtle differences didn’t really translate into the compressed video... »

I’ve been struggling with this problem for some time now, and am a bit stumped. Bits of it are trivial to solve, but when I start hooking things up, there’s a pretty big gap and disconnect. On the surface, it’s a simple problem. I’m using Drupal, and am building a website to store things like... »

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about publishing things individually, on my own, as opposed to scattering stuff across the various services out there. Partially, it’s because of some sense of wanting to retain control and ownership of what I do. Partially, it’s a thought exercise to help figure out what it would really... »

still struggling to find a way to properly represent a complex hierarchical taxonomy along with paired year data in Drupal, to do something like allowing a contributor to specify that someone received a UBC: Bachelor’s Degree: Bachelor’s of Science: Zoology in 1998 – in such a way that I could use the UBC, Bachelor’s,... »

AsideShop should be able to provide some almost-Drupal functionality in WordPress. Without the content types stored in the database, and just at the presentation layer, but still this could be very cool for building websites where you want to display different bits of content in different ways. Could have different templates for podcasts, videos,... »

but, can asides be posted without having to enter anything the Title field? asides aren’t big enough to need titles… Update: YES! No title necessary! It’ll use the post ID in the slug, and looks like it works just fine. Rock. »

I’ve been playing around with the idea of publishing all of my content in one place – what would that look like? What would be lost, with respect to the social network effects that exist in other hosted services? It seems strange to be posting blog entries here, short updates to Twitter, photos to... »

I was missing riding my bike – having parked it for 2 days following the second freak spring blizzard of 2008 – so decided to ride this morning anyway. Fun, in parts. Not so much, in others. Slush froze into clumps of sharp, crunchy ice, making some of the road sections difficult. The paths... »

yeah. the flames choked. again. defense was stuck in third gear. offense was shaky. we got outplayed. again. “blue collar work ethic” only goes so far – you have to show up, too. »