My internet connection
I finally have AT&T DSL hooked up in my apartment. It took a long time coming and it was a difficult ordeal getting AT&T to work with me. The plus side is that it seems to be stable, I've maintained my IP address for a while now and speeds are pretty good. I paid for 6mbps and I've received between 4.8-5 mbps on speed tests. read more...
Posted on March 30, 2009 at 10:41 am. 0 comments. Tags: Internet DSL AT&T
Moved
I'm moved into my new place and the internet connection is finally back up. Thus my website is back up. Getting the internet up was a bitch, which I will recount a little later.
Posted on March 29, 2009 at 02:15 am. 0 comments. Tags: life site move
Move
Hey all:
I'm moving from Chicago to the burbs this weekend. So, that means that the website will be down Friday night until I get my internet connection at the new place.
Posted on March 17, 2009 at 10:26 am. 0 comments. Tags: site move
Images Scripts Update
I was thinking about this and I feel that things would be better if I stuck to a single sub-gallery method and just implemented tags of one sort or another. That way, I can have my sub-galleries of special events, such as specific vacations. And I can also just add tags to all the images, so that I can separate them by genre or type.
Posted on March 13, 2009 at 10:33 am. 0 comments. Tags: dev site images
Image Gallery
I've come to a realization that I've missed something in my image gallery. read more...
Posted on March 12, 2009 at 06:01 pm. 0 comments. Tags: dev images site
Camera Lens
Well, I sold my Sigma 24-60 F/2.8. I wasn't particularly happy with it. It had a loud focus motor. It back focused too much and it wasn't particularly sharp. I took too many photos that were blurry with that lens. So, I'll stick with my current 4 lenses (Canon 18-55, 55-250 and 50 and Tokina 10-17 Fisheye) and wait till I save up enough to buy a Canon 24-70 F/2.8 L.
The 24-70 will most certainly replace my kit lens, but I'm not sure if i should use it in place of the 50mm F/1.8. Moreover, I still need to test my camera out a little more to see if I do, indeed, have a focus issue with my camera body.
Posted on March 10, 2009 at 04:26 pm. 0 comments. Tags: Camera lens
Updates
I know I've been very lax in writing in the blog for a while now. Reason being that I'm moving soon. So, I've been making a lot of arrangements to pack up and get out. I'm unsure when my internet will be up and running, nor am I sure which provider I'll use. I may just stick with Comcast for the time being. read more...
Posted on March 04, 2009 at 05:07 pm. 0 comments. Tags: dev camera audio
Comment Screening
I wanted to talk about the necessity for comment screening. Before I developed my current blog I had used Livejournal for years and had WordPress installed for a few months. When I was using LiveJournal, people who wanted to leave comments had to be registered users. Registered users who used spam would be brought to the attention of moderators and banned (or so I presume) and, as such, spam was generally far more controlled.
When I used WordPress, no registration was required and because of this, a ridiculous amount of spam was left on my blog. To give you an idea, over a few months, I received about 3-4 legitimate comments on the 3 posts I made in that short period of time and about 60 or so spam comments.
Because of this, I've decided to employ comment screening in order to protect my site from being hit by spam bots. There's nothing I can do to prevent the spam bots from visiting sites and automatically filling in the fields, but I can prevent the material from being visible.
Posted on February 23, 2009 at 11:59 am. 3 comments. Tags: Dev comments
Image system
The next project I'll work on is my automated image indexing system that will take image uploads, convert to lower resolution images with a converted thumbnail and possibly a medium-sized, blog-friendly size. The image information will then be placed into a table and an image index will be created. I hope to incorporate tags as well into my system.
Posted on February 23, 2009 at 11:00 am. 1 comments. Tags: dev images
Comments
After a short hiatus due to personal issues, I think I've finally gotten comments up and running and ready to go live. I'll be monitoring which comments are used and see if tweaks need to be made.