Archive for October, 2011
Out of the blue. Boom. Black screen. Flash. Then an alert that the video driver dirtnapped. Impressive.
No sign of the ducks. Chilly ride this morning.
I’ve been tweaking how I manage the ephemeral media here on my blog. Today, I added a page that shows the most recent 50 images uploaded to the site, with links to the post about each image. It’s a bit more like a photostream view, and the page includes links to the larger bloggish photostream view, as well as the RSS feed for ephemeral stuff.
To do this, I’m just using the native WordPress media manager to handle the images (which happens automagically), and the YD Recent Images plugin and Widgets on Pages plugin to embed the photo/imagestream on the page. This is pretty close to how I imagined displaying images here. Now, to think more about how to better replace the missing community features from Flickr’s Contacts page…
Showing grampa how it works
people gripe about content consumption and distraction and superficiality. but, we choose how we are. we choose to waste the potential of what would have been described as science fiction only a few years ago.
You can decide to throw birds at pigs. You can decide to check in on which strangers are pretending to like you today. You may even decide to see what you would look like if you were really fat.
Thing is, you could also decide to read. Just for a couple minutes. Maybe more. Maybe less. Who knows. It’s your decision. – Merlin Mann
absolutely. we choose to waste our time on banality and meaningless drivel. we can just as easily choose to spend our time on more interesting things. we can’t blame the tools. the choice is ours. I’m sure as hell going to try harder.
we created a waterfall, and a lavafall. they mix in interesting ways…
Finally set him up with an account, and he’s building like a pro…
The things we do for our kids…