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Wednesday, March 09, 2005

 
10:47 AM: and on we go [#] [0]

yesterday:
* they moved stuff around in my office. thanks for telling me! so that's why i couldn't access my remote computer. :P on the other hand, during the team meeting i discovered psu definitely wants to extend my contract, though there are no details till when. i'm guessing possibly till the end of their fiscal year (july). but gerrie's coming the first week or so of april and so i'll take some time off. maggie has also revised my hive objectives; they are much less granular in scope.

* thanks to my mountain dew addiction, i won a free itunes song! let's see if it takes me as long to redeem as it did my last credit (thanks, leeann!)

* john recommended me as an interview candidate for a blogger article at the pueblo chieftain. thanks, john! i, in turn, nominated chas. :)

* brian is going to get published! (australia knows the value of a good writer...!) paid, no less.

* jalex called us around 6 to tell us mount st. helens was erupting. we tried to book to the top of powell butte, but the traffic was terrible & the gates were closed. by the time we parked and got high enough to see anything, it was twilight and nothing looked out of the ordinary. however, that's what the mount st. helen volcanocam is for! :D

* i played with iphoto's web export feature a little last night. one of the artist's way participants asked for some photos and so i generated a basic, basic page to distribute them to the group. i'm getting tired of being a perfectionist w/ my photos, adjusting each one for the perfect ratio of byte reduction & image clarity. i just want to share them, you know? and iphoto proved to be wildly adequate. granted, iphoto's web export feature is incredibly limited: you get the choose the background color, the text title (not even a description), the color of the text title, whether to include the photo's title/comments, how many rows & columns you want, and what size you want the thumnails & final photos to be. that's it. it saves everything into three folders w/ an index file which is unfortunately not named index.html, much to my dismay, and titling it index.html breaks the "up" link in the pages with the larger photos. oh, well. something is better than nothing.
(update: mph recommends galerie. i saw this a while ago but it has a brushed metal interface and a lot of the templates look dumb, so i quickly tossed it aside. what i did -not- know, however, is you can tweak the templates and even create your own. very handy! and it's free.)