The Da Vinci Code
So, my sister Jenny was reading The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown when she came out for her vacation and since she bought the bigger version (with pictures), she gave me her old one. And thus I got hooked. She had me read a couple of pages in the middle of the book, and my first reaction was a strong distaste. I mean, this is Jesus the story is meddling with. Jesus, the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of God, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, my Lord and Savior--you've heard of Him, surely.
Wisdom from Ben Stein
I just had a good friend point this article from Ben Stein out to me. Wow. It is extremely well-done. I'll paste a few excerpts from it...
More muscle than you kin handle
Just finally got a chance to sit down at the laptop for half an hour and uploaded 50 pictures or so from the great time I had over the last couple of weeks. My sister (Hi Jenny!!) and her 2 youngins (Hi Nate and Elijah!) were out for 2 weeks. We had a blast, visiting Hershey, indoor swimming and diving, Lake Tobias, and other cool stuffies too.
Even if you remove the language, you are still shooting people…
Flickr assimilation now complete
I have now joined the Borg Collective officially, I can say, and have moved all of my photos off of my personal website and onto my Flickr account. Time will tell the wisdom of this move, I suppose. I can say that the features that Flickr offers are WAY cooler than anything else I've seen in this space. I had previously been using Singapore, but became quickly disenchanted by the lack of good themes/templates and the lack of integration into WordPress.
Sweet little Flickr Uploadr thing for Linux
I don't know why I didn't think of looking sooner, but after struggling with the official Flickr Uploadr in Linux with Wine (the tool itself works great, but the windows file selector doesn't allow you to preview images, and I can't find a windows tool that works in wine that does show previews/thumbnails and works with drag-and-drop to the Flickr Uploadr), I decided to search for a Flickr Uploadr solution for Linux.
Flickr Uploadr for Windows runs fine under Linux with Wine
Yay! =:) Drag-and-drop doesn't work, but the program installs and runs fine in Linux with wine!! The versions I'm running (I'm using Mandrake LE 2005 (10.2) these days):
My brother, Josh Kasper, the professional skateboarder
Doing the Flickr thing
So, I've been using Singapore for the last few years to manage my photos, and it's alright--not too horrible, it's free, it does a pretty good job, has a couple of template options, etc. However, I really would like something that would let me tie into WordPress better. To Singapore's credit, they do allow for this by providing an easy way to do this with the external template. And I've used this method to fit it into my site, and it looks moderately good.
Ack. Sorry, I’ve moved back to / from /b
I guess I was thinking that it would be neat to have a different /index.php than my WordPress blog. But... well, I never have and never will and there's no point in it begin there. So I'm moving everything back to http://movingparts.net/ from http://movingparts.net/b/. Sorry for the chaos. =:/