I have a few things I’ve forgotten to post about so in the next day or to I’ll get to posting about them. I also need to get the rest of my pictures online. I’ve been spending most of my free time working on the new KA site http://uwka.com/blog/ is the staging area. It is still a work in progress but i’d like to get migrated over from the current uwka.com by the end of labor day weekend so hopefully I can continue to find time to work on it.
The Husky football season starts friday and I’m excited. I’m also going to be putting together the summer updates video soon for all the KA’s, I’ll post that here and on uwka.com. It will be the first post of the new site design.
One last thing, I found out facebook has scrabble called ‘scrabulous‘ and it is pretty fun
to play online. I usually do that while working at the same time, it is kind of distracting, but oh well, it is fun 
Anyway, I gotta work at 8 so I should go to sleep.
It was fun! Played Enemy Territory (lame), Gears of War (I suck at it but, it seems pretty awesome), Company of Heroes (we got rocked but, again it seems super fun), Counterstrike Source (Decided not to make it a tourney game, but we played several maps, fun as always) and unofficially, Quake 3 (I burned a few CD’s of it and there were eight or so of us on there for a few maps).
Overall, it was a fun time. I enjoy hanging out with most of those guys, they’re pretty cool I also am glad to have been exposed to two pretty cool games that I might have to play more with: Gears of War (supposed to be released for mac!!!) and Company of Heroes.
I took a few pictures but, it is after 6am so I’m going to go to sleep now. I’ll post them ASAP (Monday at work at the very latest, I promise).
Basically it takes a number of teams and a number of players (or alternatively a comma seperated list of names (no spaces)) and prints out random teams. I wrote it in about an hour so if it has bugs, tell me and I might fix them but it seems to work for my purposes. Use it however you like but I’d prefer if you left the junk on top
edit: This script I used to display the code is really cool! Check it out here.
I stayed up way to late working on the gallery. It now reads from my flickr profile. I’m using a wordpress plugin called slickr that works pretty well. It doesn’t know how to handle tags, descriptions or comments for now but it seems to be undergoing active development so I’m hopeful. It seems like a limiting factor for displaying lots of information is the use of lightbox which is light by design. I might need to extend lightbox to fit my needs if I want to fit more data (like tags, descriptions and comments) on the pic previews.
I got sick of Gallery2 not doing what I want it to do so I decided to go with a hosted solution: flickr pro. I paid for 2 years. With my new 8mp camera I’ll need the removed upload limit and I like the ability to store my photos in full res online somewhere. I’ll slowly add my whole iphoto library to flickr as I get time to tag and describe them all.
http://flickr.com/photos/xijio/
Also, if anyone knows a good wordpress plugin for flickr, let me know. I have seen several and don’t know which one I want to try, any thoughts?
This is possibly the coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Essentially it allows you to resize images by removing the least significant pixels or increase the size of images by adding meaningless pixels. It even allows for the easy removal of things from images. Just watch the video at the bottom of the page, you’ll understand what I mean. Totally cool. I want the software! Photoshop plugin anyone
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I went to the doctor again yesterday because I still had sinus / chest congestion. He had me get a chest x-ray and some blood work done and then come back to him. The chest x-ray looked good (that’s a good thing) and my white count was slightly elevated. He told me it is bronchitus most likely bacterial. He put me on three new drugs: azithromycin (anti-biotic), prednisone (I don’t know what this is for) and albuterol (an inhaled stereoid commonly used by asthmatics). The combination seems to be helping. I still have chest congestion but it seems like it is getting better, I attribute this to the new anti-biotic.
The one bad thing is now I’ll most likely have to miss the hike this weekend as the doctor advised me not to go. Bummer. Oh well, I hope I continue to feel / get better!
Why is there no good implementation of this? It seems like something tons of people would want to do yet there are no plugins available to get the job done.
Here is what I’ve found:
- WoogleCal is basically a tool that reads google rss feeds and sorts them by date (because apparently google is too stupid to do this) and shows only events in the future (again, google come on).
- Google Calendar Widget is a widget that isn’t actually compatible with wordpress and requires modification of the default wordpress files to work. It is also a widget which doesn’t necessarily fit my needs.
- Alan Gutierrez describes what seems like an elegant solution but, there is no work being done on it from what I can tell.
- Finally, you can use the google provided html to embed a calendar. This is a somewhat clunky solution though
Sigh, if only I had some time on my hands to do some mashing. I’m going to experiment with the above options to try to get something that will fit my needs for a project that I’m working on.
I ate the whole bottle of Augmentin (over the course of a week, spread out to about one every eight hours) but… I’m still sick. I guess it either a) isn’t bacterial or b) is a specially bread super bacteria that is immune to normal anti-biotics. I’m pulling for the latter as it would be cool to be the cause of the world’s demise. I really don’t want to go to the doctor again but, if I’m still not feeling well I’ll probably have to.
Boo infections.
Congrats to them! The wedding was wonderful and I’ll upload all of the pics to my gallery and all of the video to viddler tomorrow at work (where I have super fast upload speeds).
edit: iPhotoToGallery failed me (it appears to be working fine but once it tries to start uploading nothing happens and then it times out and says it failed after uploading 0 files). I don’t have time to mess with it now, I’ll investigate when I get home and then try again tomorrow.
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