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Been a long time.

gdekadt@mac.com — 2008-08-10T20:03:38+02:00

Just to reiterate - v1 this site is indefinitely .

Did this

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-07-31T23:22:01+02:00

My morning of fame with the kids came off OK.

I was up to run a two hour workshop last week - keeps the little darlings of the streets you see - so I went with the keep em busy line. They had to flesh out a story and give life to the characters a la cadavre exquis. Then the little loves had to make em, and the scenery, and then put on the show. Better than reading them a dodgy Shakespeare translation badly. [Although reading up on A Midsummer Night's Dream was fun.]....

This is the final result - to be roundly flogged tomorrow.

been quiet recently ...

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-07-28T23:07:11+02:00

Flickr

Seem to have been very absent. Then it's also been very hot. Here's some photos to fill the void …

And another

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-07-13T18:20:19+02:00

Again from those nice PP folks

Green Room Open Thread

Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) offers a few more lessons learned:

Mr. Speaker, yesterday the President said we continue to be wise about how we spend the people's money.

"Then why are we paying over $100,000 for a 'White House Director of Lessons Learned'?

"Maybe I can save the taxpayers $100,000 by running through a few of the lessons this White House should have learned by now.

"Lesson 1: When the Army Chief of Staff and the Secretary of State say you are going to war without enough troops, you're going to war without enough troops.

"Lesson 2: When 8.8 billion dollars of reconstruction funding disappears from Iraq, and 2 billion dollars disappears from Katrina relief, it's time to demand a little accountability.

"Lesson 3: When you've 'turned the corner' in Iraq more times than Danica Patrick at the Indy 500, it means you are going in circles.

"Lesson 4: When the national weather service tells you a category 5 hurricane is heading for New Orleans, a category 5 hurricane is heading to New Orleans.

"I would also ask the President why we're paying for two 'Ethics Advisors' and a 'Director of Fact Checking.'

"They must be the only people in Washington who get more vacation time than the President.

"Maybe the White House could consolidate these positions into a Director of Irony."

Nice quote.

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-07-12T00:03:30+02:00

Echos of Ben Franklin

Besides being loved by many women of all ages for his wit, wisdom, and charm, da Man on da hunna dolla bill left an amazing legacy of pithy quotes that we ignore at our peril. From one of the most magnificent minds in history, Professor Benjamin Franklin:

Who is wise?
He that learns from everyone.

Who is powerful?
He that governs his passions.

Who is rich?
He who is content.

Who is that?
Nobody.

That'll learn me

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-07-09T23:53:59+02:00

OK, so after my last - rather smug post I've had a week of bad luck. Phone stolen. PowerBook HD crash and burn. Tyre stabbed. Instant Karma's gone an' got me. Well as bad lick comes in three's I should be OK until the next time?

The moral? Never dis' the Dark Side.

Oh and then ITALY win the big WC. Grrrr. Rrrr.

My Favorite Windows Testing PC is my MacBook

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-07-04T11:46:45+02:00

OK - so it's a short article by a Mac geek who knows how to handle system problems - and has a nifty workaround for whatever issues he's having here - but it's still relatively amusing - to another [long-term] Mac geek.

Spotlight noindex fixed

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-07-03T09:39:36+02:00

Blimey guvnor - it seems that finally - at version 7 of Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 [mouthful - or is it too early?] Apple has fixed Spotlight to remember Privacy settings across reboots. TBC

Oh No It Isn't!

RapidWeaver beta

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-06-19T23:28:06+02:00

Yes still running this baby with RapidWeaver. Now v3.5 Beta. It's buggy as f***. Very annoying after the grand fanfares that alluded to a finished product.

Scalable Web Sites

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-06-19T23:12:16+02:00

O'Reilly's animal illustration covers tend to be fairly random.

Love this one.

Scientology

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-06-16T17:32:53+02:00

I've only just come accross this follow up posting out there a response from back when I found the South Park Scientology episiode, (injuctioned by Mr Travolta himself?). It's a crap Flash presentation, but hey ... scientology. Scary.

«Proyecto Basico» plans

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-06-15T00:24:32+02:00

George Bush - It Could Be True

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-06-07T23:14:00+02:00

Donald Rumsfeld briefed the President this morning.

He told George W. that three Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq.

To everyone's amazement, all the color drained from Bush's face; then he collapsed onto his desk head in hands, visibly shaken and almost in tears.

Finally he composed himself and asked Rumsfeld, …

"Just exactly how many is a brazilian?"

Thanks to the folks at Political Physics.

How to find devices on your local network

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-06-02T10:40:14+02:00

By: rpaege on Tue, May 30 '06 at 11:50AM PDT

[if you type a -c# flag after the ping command it will only report back once, as in:]

ping -c2 192.168.1.255

This code gets a ping from everything from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255

iCal World Cup Calendar!

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-06-01T10:00:13+02:00

Download this file

From Skype for Mac

FAT32 (Windows/MS DOS) disk image in Mac OS X?

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-06-01T09:23:07+02:00

Easy. In my case:

hdiutil create -megabytes 650 -fs MS-DOS -volname MS_DOS -o /Users/gabs/Desktop/MS_DOS_650MB

Where MS_DOS is filesystem [-fs] and Volume Name [-volname]. Output [-o] — using full path — to /Users/blah/blah/imagename. dmg suffix automatically generated.

Hat tip to MacOSXHints. Again.

Confident Bob & Lovewig

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-05-31T21:11:09+02:00

'Lateral Cuts' [ Radio Mixshow ]

I like this. It's an oldee from dave Mr_Hopkinson™ and mate in mp3 stylee: Lateral_Cuts-Radio Mixshow

Modify the iTunes 4.5 [still works in 6.04!] link arrows' behavior

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-05-31T20:46:38+02:00

An old mac hint that I'd forgotten about. Nicer.

… quit iTunes, open a Terminal window, and type:defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES

Lightboxing

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-05-29T16:43:40+02:00

Found this «nifty» tutorial on how to make a lightbox …

"an unobtrusive script used to to overlay content on the current page. Because it places content above your current page, it frees you from the constraints of the layout, particularly column widths."

OK - its www browser version of our old favourite the Modal Dialogue Box but with CSS and a bit of JavaScript. Via Treehouse Magazine.

CSS Superscript Lineheight Adjustment

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-05-25T16:57:08+02:00

Haha! Of course it's not a problem. (From www.soxiam.com)
sup { line-height: 0; vertical-align: text-top; }

Text Editor update

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-05-18T16:53:05+02:00

Thanks for the recommendation Dan. TextMate looks very good. There's a couple of interesting articles about it out there in blogland and beyond:

Trick Your TextMate: The Series. Very nice bunch of hints and stuff from Mr Garrett Dimon

A decent short Text Mate vs TextWrangler article at infocraft

Michael Alderete’s Weblog has a post on TextMate vs BBEdit with nice links:

… a few new tricks in this capsule review of TextMate at Vitamin, and someone built this nifty customized quick reference card generator for TextMate that could be indispensable.

Stephen Colbert update

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-05-17T10:56:17+02:00

Thanks to Mark Morford's notes & errata column at The SF Gate for reminding me about this roasting of Bush. Bloody hell, you can now buy it on iTunes as an audiobook. This loses half the fun, but hey, it's a lot of fun.

Comedy chunes

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-05-16T16:45:29+02:00

aside: Good 'ole iTunes.

Funny music comes in waves … yesterday I was treated to Chris Morris's Bad Sex then just now More Shopping by Bran Van 3000, a tune by Whale that reminded me of their Young Dumb and full of Cum.

Now a semi-comedy cover of Floyds Money by Gary "Nesta" Pine & Dollarman. Priceless.

CamelCase

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-05-16T01:38:43+02:00

Thanks to Mr Gruber for alerting me to CamelCase in his rant about WebKit vs Web Kit.

Variations and synonyms

There are two common varieties of CamelCase, distinguished by their handling of the initial letter of what would otherwise be the first of separate words. Where the first letter is capitalized is commonly called UpperCamelCase, PascalCase, or BiCapitalized. Where the first letter is left in lowercase is commonly called lowerCamelCase. This variant has also been occasionally called dromedaryCase or camelCase. For clarity, this article will use the terms UpperCamelCase and lowerCamelCase, respectively.

Bloody Hell!

MAC WYSIWYG XHTML

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-05-15T16:46:27+02:00

All I want is a simple tool to help me write web content and clearly formatted text. In particular a proposal for a web site redevelopment. Seems very wrong to be using Microsoft Word. The bloated wee shiite won't start up on this machine anymore anyway. Frankly very glad to see it gone. Something that does headings, helps with links and HTML entities.

Finds so far:

Nvu.

Mmmmm. OK - starts life in HTML transitional mode. Set to XHTML. Looking promising then it drops in a span with inline style into the text when you hit the BOLD button. What's wrong with just or ? Breaks go in as
.

SEEdit

Nice, but without the WYSIWYG.

Amaya

Grrr. It's got all the tags to hand - but is not a "Mac" app. Feels very much like an unpolished Open Source app. Screen redraw is odd. Very bad: I can't find a way to [select all]

Taco HTML Edit

Naw - not WYSIWYG, not XHTML ready (option for uppercase tags)

Well …

Perhaps I'll stick with TextWrangler after all

aside

Completely forgotten the very smart looking application that posts to WordPress et al. … Found it. In the end. MarsEdit. Loads of google searches and head scratching trying to remember where that one came from. Anyway, in the end it's no good for what I'm looking for right now. And its job of easing the posting of content to a WordPress blog looks to be under threat from within WordPress community: the shuttle has launched. That looks great. WordPress has been cumbersome in that regard.

CCD sensor dirt

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-05-15T12:46:47+02:00

I've got a dirty CCD. After my last, disastrous attempt to clean it I'm looking for new solutions. No pun intended.

Last time I went with the recommendation to use compressed air, "but make sure the tube/pipe/staw/whatever is clean before you let it anywhere near the CCD." So I did. Then between letting go and blowing air at the CCD - all the little drops of condensation that had instantly formed inside said tube/pipe/staw/whatever splattered all over it. Another fine mess. At least the charge to clean up the mess wasn't too bad. So - do I use a vacuum, eye-shadow aplicators DSLRClean™ or perfect fit (and Fuji recommended) SENSOR SWAB™. Mmmm.

A better Spotlight keyboard shortcut

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-05-12T18:08:15+02:00

{CONTROL}-{Space}. [Instead of {CMD}-{Space}.]
Now why didn't I thing of that.
Now it the Spotlight search won't grab my Mac when I'm trying to pan around in Adobe apps. Thanks to Google, again, and Dan Rodney

Drupal book

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-05-12T17:21:34+02:00

Fresh from the press. The wonders of new publishing methods. I now have a (fairly useless) screen-view-only secure PDF and a real book on its way. Shame they don't do a WordPress Book.

Last FM in iTunes

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-05-11T22:16:20+02:00

Only came across this service due to inclusion in the Scrible theme for WordPress - liked the look of it but left it at that. Now have seen a HInt about how to get going with Last.FM and then then keep using iTunes. We shall see. Added interest due to the work n La Hora Violeta site (development currently stalled due to lack of content from the lads). We shall see. Not sure about background re-encoding on my already struggling PowerBook - but hey - I like the idea and need some new music.

Where's my sound gone? [edit]

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-05-11T10:50:36+02:00

Good ole goooogle.

Thanks Mr Mac Observer and your TMO Quick Tip, One-click Speaker Selection, to solve the menu bar sound input/output selection problem I had. [USB headset for Skype causing more options - and System Preferences is a round the houses solution.] I thought I'd seen this before; being an occasional Audio Hijack Pro user and Rogue Amoeba fan. Easy, lightweight solution. Oh, yes by the way its called SoundSource and it's from those Rogue Amoebas

Me Happy Now.

NAS-ty

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-05-10T11:44:18+02:00

From the comments at Pilgrim (the article itself is flim-flam), via Decaffeinated
Here’s what I’d do (am in the process of moving to):Buy a ReadyNAS device from infrant - I’m looking at the 1U rack enclosure, because I have access to a rack, but one of their other boxes would be just as good. It’s pricey for a NAS, but it’s currently unbeatable, and supports hardware RAID-5. On top of that, its one of the few hardware RAID-5 implementations I’ve found that allows you to resize the array up by adding one hard drive at a time and rebuilding until all are replaced, and you have more place. Most seem to require you to destroy the array, and then recreate it.This gives you a great upgrade strategy - buy four hard-drives from seagate (5 year warranty, and best drives out there) that will provide enough space for the foreseeable future (defined by you) - $200 / drive can buy a lot of space. When they fill up (and it will be before the warranty is up), replace with the newer generation drives in the same price range - drive space will have jumped remarkably, and suddenly your array is much bigger. Rinse and repeat every few years.Not the cheapest option - especially for the initial setup - but you have some solid data protection. Either double for offsite storage (yes, pricey), or only worry about doing offsite storage for the most important information. Or find an offsite location for the rack enclosure, and trust they’ll never burn down…Comment by Isaac — Monday, May 8, 2006 @ 11:16 am

been out with the D70 a lot recently

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-05-10T11:39:12+02:00

The festivals and heavy weekends continue. This weekend it's the Virgin. She comes to town once every four years or so.
And Then there's Matthew's gig in Jimena de la Frontera.

Stephen Colbert @ The W H C A D

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-05-03T01:42:05+02:00

BushWhacked
Unbelievable rip into Bush at the white house correspondents association dinner

Free education from Berkeley...

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-04-26T12:41:54+02:00
This is, as they say, very cool.
"Berkeley on iTunes U" is now available by visiting itunes.berkeley.edu, and is open to the public as well as to all UC Berkeley students. The agreement brings the campus's multimedia assets under one UC Berkeley-branded media gateway.
Time to learn a bit about that thar philosophy.

"SketchUp" of the tricky bit..

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-04-25T11:38:42+02:00
Here's the solution to the sticky too many levels - not enough space problem. If you understand me. Whaddya mean there's too many steps?

shared server issues dealt with

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-04-24T02:59:16+02:00
Simple - had to put in a simple request for Power Mode PHP so no fancy PHP is run as CGI. Which is safer in a shered server environmnet you see. All good.

places I've been in my life

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-04-24T02:56:38+02:00

create your own visited countries map

shared server issues to deal with

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-04-21T13:09:02+02:00
My mt shared server package runs php in safe mode - so I'm getting permissions errors. Two plugins so far refusing to work (the default WP 2 database backup plugin and a Flickr Photo Album for WordPress) - with similar permissions errors for both and a third WP-admin by orederedlist which doesn't show up at all...

Doh.

Running of the bulls this weekend

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-04-20T23:04:04+02:00
Mmm: the local custom of the yearly running of the bulls (well they actually only use very small young bulls here - TBC) through the town goes down this coming weekend. Apparently a really unpleasant affair - Spain at its worst really. A macho - but ultimately cowardly - drunken mob hassling a poor confused beast down through the town. I hope to get some telling shots of these jerks from up close. Then again maybe it will prove to be incredibly powerful experience that encapsulates the majesty and suffering of life.

I doubt it.

Some more pics…

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-04-19T13:47:22+02:00

Squible is sacked.

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-04-18T18:56:50+02:00
That there squible theme is far too complex for its own good -needs some inline CSS and has too many stylesheets- but the hora violeta site is (god-damn-it) getting there.

Aside: flickr code for WordPress

Oh balls to it.

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-04-18T09:27:36+02:00
A WordPress powered gdekadt.com is ~~sacked~~ [was never hired - lets say postponed].

RapidWeaver lives to site another page. [Or something.]

I'll set up the Hora Violeta site with WordPress, using that ole Squible theme and the little knowledge I've gained thus far.

Meanwhile I've seen something new and exciting to keep half of one eye on (damn you Dan: it's a Ruby On Rails thing.) It's over here.

[Aside. New fave: orderedlist]

Hoppy Easter [hahahahahah: splat]

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-04-18T09:23:59+02:00

[nice one, india]

la hora violeta CD artwork

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-04-17T18:45:11+02:00
Digipack-tastic.

April fools

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-04-03T12:59:17+02:00
Of the few that I stumbled across my favourite was WordPattern . Lovely.

That, somehow, led to brainf*ck.

Wacking HordPress

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-31T21:25:55+02:00
Grrr and double grrr.

I've done something somewhere that prevents the content displaying.

I've also spent quite a lot of time looking at other more CMS heavy options this week. Bit geeky is not enough when you're after a quick fix. How does it go, "Cheap, Fast, Good. You can only ever have two out of three." Something like that. I'm after 1 and 3.

It all becomes clear

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-24T23:03:30+01:00

or does it?

The Lazydada site is testing a redevelopment of gdekadt.com in a WordPress stylee. Benevolence is the starting point. But I'm now looking at removing all the blog stuff from gdekadt - running two blogs seems a bit to much. KISS.

Once the "professional" gdekadt site is (re-)done I'll move on the personal site & testing ground: probably to be based on a the WordPress Squible theme.

In the meantime I'm still very much enjoying the ease of RapidWeaver. (Except for the FTP issues it has)

South Park Scientology episode

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-22T22:29:38+01:00
The South Park Scientology Episode. Thanks to the default WordPress blogroll link to Donncha.

WordPress install continues

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-22T21:22:49+01:00

Permalinktastic

Bleedin .htaccess file just disappeared. Huh? Back in and working. Now.
WordPress codex stuff here.

RapidFlickr

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-22T17:53:34+01:00
Aside

The plugin that makes generating beautiful photo albums & slideshows off your flickr account dead easy in RapidWeaver.

Could be good, LAMP-esque as I am at the moment.

On a slightly different flickr note: flickr feeds to iPhoto.

Hacking WordPress

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-21T17:33:08+01:00
~~TO DO~~:Static Front page - no sweat. Simple instructions here.

Hacking Benevolence Theme

Making custom templates

~~Making custom "home.php" file - and "sidebar_home.php" to differentiate blog style pages from dynamically generated static content.~~ ~~Arse~~. ... need to use "include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar_home.php');" rather than a simple "get".
The get command template tags call to standard template files. The include PHP command gets template files that are standard AND non-standard template files.

home.php

home.php loses pretty much everything from original index.php - just calls in header, sidebar~~_home~~, content and footer.

sidebar_home.php

TO DO: Get a list of Pages displaying ... (need to include template tag to get Pages) example
Pages'); ?>
and following on; to include the "Blog" category (no breaks - so it is a seamless list). (Blimey - getting php code to render in html is not nice.

~~TO DO~~: Getting list of Pages in the Sidebar, without "Pages" repeating...
DONE: Just remove "Pages" from inside the example above. Donkey.

TO DO: Benevolence Theme needs a (CSS?) solution to render sub-Pages nicely in the sidebar.
IN PROGRESS: using a .pagenav li.page_item li selector I can add indent - but it seems the text color won't change...
(NOTE: since I've had to re-do sidebar_home.php due to it losing all its contents - I'm getting a nice rendering of this. Magic. One thing I changed was to put the php calls to display Pages and Blog inside a title div.)

Hacking the standard templates

header.php

~~TO DO~~: Remove title from header.php (the "lazydada" bit: this should be done with some fancy graphics and such-like).
DONE: Commented out bloginfo link from blogTitle div. Knocked out a banner graphic. Very much a v1.
TO DO: do that properly - (perhaps an Image Ready navbar with fancy roll-overs: in the CSS of course)

sidebar.php

~~TO DO~~: Need to add the pages call into the regular sidebar, then exclude category "Blog" from the category listing to avoid duplication in said sidebar.
DONE: wp_list_cats('list=0'); replaced by:
wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=1&exclude=2'); where my "Blog" category = 2

footer.php

~~TO DO~~: Modfy footer.
DONE: easy.

~~TO DO~~: Sort out permalinks
DONE: Created .htaccess file - (WP 2 is not creating the file despite what is says - tried changing permissions (using Transmit) but no joy. ) - added code as promted by WP-admin.

in the beginning (the move to WordPress starts)

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-21T13:32:25+01:00
hmmwokay...

Got a new host as recommended by the Zeldman himself. Mine (Powweb) needed me to set up a new account to mess about/test/run the new project: henceforth lazydada.com. So fuck em. (mt) let me have 5/6 sites within my shared server which is nice. Anyway moving on... this is about getting WordPress to power a site.

So how's it going?

Not too bad at all: It is simple as they say. (I am a bit geeky already - but nothing much of that is required.) The only plug-in I'm after right away is Static Front Page from Semiologic. Flickr nonsense will come next. As for themes - I'm looking at hacking either blix or Benevolence by Theron Parlin. We shall see....

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-20T12:08:36+01:00
Hrumpf - removing Portfolio Net Publish (trial verson) prevents Apache web server from staring up. Thanks to MacOSXHints and sjoshi for "sudo apachectl configtest". sudo rm netpublish.conf you little f*****. Grrr, Extensis Portfolio. Grrr.

I am a Flickr freak.

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-20T10:23:49+01:00

Holga Color Flash Camera

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-17T02:08:57+01:00
I like.

Available here.

Contents (Starter & Deluxe Kit only)
• Holga Color Flash camera The famous Medium-format dynamo - now with a built in flash and color-gel filters! Prepare to employ your trusty Holga day or night as the flash opens up new worlds of low-light images with the beloved Holga effects - soft focus, double-exposures, streaming colors, intense vignetting, and unpredictable light leaks. A "B" setting keeps the shutter open for as long as you like, and the dandy new tripod thread allows for smooth tripod mounting...

• 1 Roll of Black Opaque Tape The perfect solution for light-leaking seams that you want to cover. This special variant of electrical tape will not leave a nasty glue residue after it's used. How nice! ...

Look at the house in Google Earth!

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-16T23:55:26+01:00

Here's the wee thing in Google Earth. Download this file: House outline and then have a look. You'll have to zoom out and pull the view back a bit - as it doesn't show when it first loads. But, hey, it's Google Earth and that's good and great.

WordPress to come

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-16T23:34:16+01:00
OK - WordPress can do Pages which contain static information that is generated dynamically. And setting up a non-blog home page is no big deal either. Last year when I was first looking into setting up this website it had seemed much more hassle than it was worth. Now I'm getting used to the faffing about involved in running it this site; I'm ready to do my homework on it. B'gads even Zeldman's using it now. It'll take a while though. Lazydada by name...

[aside] good grief - Sin City is a terrible movie.

I wish I could paint. Like this.

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-16T12:13:40+01:00
Having a clear-up of my files found this. A painting from about 1998 by my old friend Steve Rendall of my missus (c) [before she was] with Sarah (l) and Juey (r). Steve - you clever fucker. I love this painting. Unfortunately Jen wasn't too flattered - or I'd have had it. Love this painting.

Star ratings

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-16T01:38:48+01:00
* personal interest ** nice photo *** good photo **** great photo ***** david fucking bailey

New favourite ftp client and other stuff

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-16T01:17:15+01:00
Transmit by Panic has replaced Interarchy as my ftp client of choice. Been having trouble today with uploads to my host using either RapidWeaver or Interarchy. Transmit has so far been faultless. It's a nicer application in use too.

Flickr Uploadr is the tool for Flickr uploading. Beats the other option. Third option was nice - but needed iPhoto - which I'm currently dropping like a sack of big mouldy onions. I'll definitely have a look at version six when I get round to it - for easy printing and those nice books but not in a big hurry. Recovering 6GB of space by dumping its duplicated files (which are all archived anyway) will be lovely.

Oh yes - and while I like RapidWeaver - I'm begining to see this as a temporary solution. I'm not keen on the way it duplicates common resources for each page - it's missing the point of lovely lithe CSS standards. I wish that WordPress was more friendly to static page requirements. Oooh - the beauty of CSS done properly.

Most useful web tools:

TextWrangler

Transmit

CSSEdit

Xyle scope

New system for organising and publishing photos 2

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-16T01:12:49+01:00
Well...

Extensis Portfolio is still no good at doing what it should - metadata (in this case Photoshop ratings) written to files does not match the schema of Photoshop (or Bridge). Still happy with the Bridge. It would be nice if it could filter files by criteria other than its own labels or ratings though.

some pics

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-15T23:47:15+01:00

Don't laugh too much!

New system for organising and publishing photos

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-15T12:46:54+01:00
At last I understand the power of Adobe Bridge. The tool for embedding metadata into the image files themselves.

And then I reckon I've become an instant fan of Flickr. Well - when I say instant - I joined about six months ago. But that was all. Now I'm annotating my files with wonton abandon and sending them up to the big server in the sky. Amazing - just by dumping them there I'm getting hits. Good old Yahoo.

I'm dreaming of ways to kill-off my reliance on iPhoto. Its a lovely bit of software - and the new version is improved. But no IPTC/XMP/ITC metadata support is a pisser.

Oh - and Extensis Portfolio is back in use - but only as a niche tool. Another bit of software that really can't deliver. In this case it says it can. But can't. It's better - but can it embed the all important metadata back to the files - not in my tests it doesn't.

Now - just got to get round to tagging and rating my files properly. Ouch.

Get To Work.

The house as it looks in SketchUp

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-14T00:13:51+01:00

Here's a rough image I made using my favourite 3D tool (OK - my only 3D tool) of the new p[a]lace as it (just about) stands: in glorious 3D.

Architect

gdekadt@mac.com — 2006-03-06T10:57:32+01:00
Looks like we have an architect for the house. Of the four that I've met - some highly recommended only one seems to be reliable and capable.