You may have noticed but I’ve re-added a link to our photo albums. This link now points to a temporary website which is running Zippy Photos. If you notice any weird behavior with the site please let me know. There will be lots of changes coming to it soon. Hopefully within a few days I’ll have it integrated into WordPress but for now its an external site.
Month: April 2007
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole
If you are looking for something to do next april (2008) then look no further! Try running in the World’s Coolest Marathon at the North Pole. We can meet up with St Nick while we’re there.
Zippy Photos
I’ve officially named my photo album software Zippy Phtos. I’ve created a Google Code Page for it also. I’ll be updating it with downloads, general usage information etc. I’ll also be using its subversion code repository to keep the code archived as well.
Never go to a doctor with dead office plants
Mike showed me two sweet websites that help with RSS feeds.
The first is Feed Rinse. Feed Rinse is a free website that will allow you to setup an RSS feed that filters another RSS feed. This means if you subscribe to an RSS feed that has a bunch of subjects that you don’t care about you can filter them out.
The second is Feed 43. Feed 43 (or Feed For Free) is a free website that allows you to convert any website that doesn’t have an RSS feed into an RSS feed. I haven’t had a chance to play with this yet but it looks like you need to write some sort of script to determine what on the site should be considered an article etc. I’ll post about it again after I play with it for a while.
To alcohol! the cause and answer to all of life's problems
Roger’s Bachelor Party. Don’t worry the strippers aren’t in the video.
Why we love The Office
ahhhh Jim and your crazy antics:
Filesystem Photo Gallery
I’ve been looking for a good filesystem-based Gallery system for a while. I haven’t been able to come up with one that has the features and is as lightweight as I’d like it. Therefor I decided I’d write my own. I implemented the first version in .NET but have since ceased development and decided to move away from IIS/windows and begin using linux/apache and an external host (powweb). I also want the Gallery system to work seamlessly with WordPress and any other PHP based content management system (or blog engine). Therefor I decided to scratch the .NET version and start on a PHP based version.
I started working on my new PHP filesystem based Gallery system last night. It’s intended to be extremely lightweight with no database interaction. It will assume the first image in a directory should be the ‘thumbnail’ for that directory. It will dynamically generate thumbnails for images which do not yet have a thumbnails. This is so that they are only created once.
I’m very surprised at how fast the The system is coming together. I suspect that in a few days I’ll have a working version with most if not all of the features I’m looking for.
The only problem is I have no Idea what to call it. If anyone has any suggestions I’d love to hear them.
As soon as I come up with the name I’ll publish a google code site with all the documentation and downloading goodness.
Flowers
2005 Oscar Winner for Animation, Pixar’s Delivery:
Animation is about creating the illusion of life
Found a fantastic animated music video:
Mets 1 Yankees 0
Friday I drove down to Poughkeepsie to see Charles for his birthday. After arriving we went straight to the city to meet some friends of his and goto the Mets game. The Mets won. The game had nothing to do with the Yankees I just like to taunt Yankee fans. After the game we met up with Sanjay for a lesson in expensive drinking and a place to stay.
Saturday Charles headed back to Poughkeepsie while I headed to the International Car Show with Sanjay. Check out the 2008 Ferrari for a sample. I’ll post a link to the whole gallery once the photo gallery comes back up. After the car show we met my Brother for sushi at Lan and had probably the best sushi I’ve ever had. After dinner my brother and I went to one of NYC’s oldest pubs McSorley’s for some Beers. They only give you two options, Light or Dark McSorley’s and when you order a drink they always give you 2 instead of 1. After that it was time to catch the train back to Poughkeepsie so we said our good byes and headed out.
That’s my trip in a nutshell.
Randy Aldrich 