Category: Site News

Picturegraphification

The other day I put up a photo gallery and several albums of photos. I’m still not sure how I want to incorporate it into the site, it could very well be it’s own section, and I could create an album of certain things for my portfolio. We’ll see, I’d be happy to hear your suggestions.

In other news, I think I’ve been making some progress getting the UO Waterski Club going. I’ve got a table reserved at the club sports open house, and am looking into a day to do an organizational meeting. Also it looks like in the next few weeks I’ll try to enter some tournaments.

As far as my skiing goes, I’m still struggling at 34mph. 32mph is cake though. I’d just really like to get myself up to 36mph so I can start cutting the rope down more. If you’re going to be entering competitions, it’s probably a good idea to be at a competitive level. 😉

Fire! Fire!

Last Thursday, after class, I finally received my new camera (Minolta DiMAGE G400). 4 Megapixel, 3x optical zoom, tiny sonofabitch. Was playing with it a little in my truck as I was on my way to the Math department’s picnic, played with it more before the after-picnic-party (and no I don’t have any shots from this).

Friday, my roommate invited me to go to a BBQ with a bunch of his friends in Corvallis. I went and had a great time. There seemed to be a shortage of BEEF burgers, but the ribs followed shortly after. Food was damn good, company was great. Passed the soccer ball around outside for a while. Then after the sun set, while most of us were watching BASEketball, Milo (edit: thx Trev0r) began twirling his firestick. This was quite amazing, and I do have some shots of this… (click to enlarge)
           
I had no idea how this exposure shot mode got turned on, but it kicks ass once you’re aware of it! I now know how to turn it on and off, but am still figuring out how to control it more. It’ll probably take me all summer before I’ve totally got the camera 100% figured out, but it only took me the one night to get the basics.

I’m looking into the possibility of starting a photoblog of some sort. I’m not sure if I want to host it, or if I want to use an established site service. It may take a few weeks for me to get something going, but you heard it here first I guess.

Yay, new toy!!

Seminar, Finished, Groovy

I got the chance to attend a Mac OS X Tiger/Tiger Server seminar today. Mostly it was an advertisement for the new features in the latest flavor of OS X, but there were a few subtle things I learned about. Mostly what was new to me were the features in Mac OS X Server. I could geek out for a bit here, but being that I probably won’t be running such a server anytime soon, I won’t.

Also today finally marked the conclusion of the journy that was building the math department a new website. The project had been just about complete for a while now, but we had to wait for a few things to happen before moving it over to the permanant server. Then when loaded on the new server, naturally, nothing worked. So after manually editing EVERY php file, twice, I was down to only 2 minor headaches, which could be lived without for a day or so. One, the photo album would load the expanded pictures, this was a simple fix to add _GET[”] to the variable declaration. Two, the random image rotator was seemingly completely broken. Somehow the line endings transformed themselves to DOS format, and a mystery character decided to rear its ugly head. Thanks to help from Hans, this got taken care of today as well.

On May 6, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Jonathan Brundan wrote:
Perfect.

I think you’re done…
Thanks for all your work!!!

Jon.

Yay! Thanks Jon!

Lastly, I updated my pr0tfolio with a short description of my latest web project, and now I’ll have some free time to put up some of my photography and other art works I’ve been working on. w00tles!