Archive for April 14th, 2006

14 Apr 2006 Wrestling with K2
Author: Gail |  Category: Unabashed Geekiness, gailatlarge.com  | 4 Comments

I’m a big fan of Brandon Hoover(aka Javajive)’s blog showcasing Indonesia, and the geek in me loves the Ajax-driven commenting feature in his K2 template. This sounds like total gobbledy-gook, I know, but bear with me, you’ll see what I mean once I finally get the thing up and running. I haven’t been able to find any similar templates with that particular commenting style designed for Wordpress 2.0 and there are other features in K2 that I like, so I’ve decided to plunge right in and switch this one over.

As much as I derive pleasure in messing with code, I’m not a programmer by any stretch of the imagination, so this could take all night. If you see any weirdness, it should go away (hopefully) sometime soon.

14 Apr 2006 Interestingness
Author: Gail |  Category: Flickr, Photography  | 5 Comments

I don’t know what formula Flickr uses to calculate “interestingness” (from what I read it changes often), but the Flickr API allows developers to display such photos in creative ways. The Flickr photographer flagrantdisregard comes to mind first, with all the Flickr Toys he’s created from badges to postcards to stamps to slideshows from the Explore page.

Came across another display method today, this time another developer using the “interestingness” ranking output for photos.

My “interesting” photos on black or white.

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14 Apr 2006 Toronto Flickr Meetup @ Green Room
Author: Gail |  Category: Flickr Toronto  | 4 Comments

Boy, time flies. I’ve barely been here in Toronto, and this was my third Toronto Flickr meetup! I wasn’t living here yet when I attended February’s at the Red Room, and last month I wasn’t here for even two weeks before the meetup at Gypsy Co-op then went to Europe only a couple of days after, so the Flickr meetups seem to mark my comings and goings. Fortunately, they’ve happened to fall on a time that I’m here.

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With each gathering I meet a few more people, recognise a few more from the forum, and some from the previous meetup. I’m also — little by little — getting my bearings, after consulting maps of where each meetup is located and the best routes to get there. I know there are many benefits to going to such events, but yet I find a part of myself unwilling to go. The part of myself that’s practical and a good sport has to persuade the unwilling side of me to get out of the apartment, and this time the unwilling side nearly won. It’s not that people aren’t friendly, or the locations are far away, or times inconvenient. Not at all. In the two previous meetups, I’ve come away with positive feelings. I always have a good time, I talk to people. I seem to recall feeling this way before the other two meets, but once I got there everything was OK. { continue reading… }