Archive for April 23rd, 2006

23 Apr 2006 Tubular Blue
Author: Gail |  Category: Photography  | Leave a Comment

It was a cold and rainy evening in Toronto. The kind of night where the sensible people stay home, and the rest of us don a hat and put fresh batteries in the camera.

More shots from the evening:

shave and a haircut, two bits

23 Apr 2006 Interestingness1 Video, by TheLastMinute
Author: Gail |  Category: Flickr, Linkage, Other Photogs, Photography, Videoclips  | Leave a Comment


Interestingness1 by thelastminute

I don’t remember how I first came across Duncan Rawlinson’s site www.thelastminuteblog.com (I first linked to him back in September 2004), but he’s been videoblogging lately and put together this movie of Flickr photography that made it to the ‘interestingness’ pages. Except for a glut of self-promotional mistagging in the middle, most of the photographs are genuinely “wow” and “WOW” and “awww” and all that.

I can’t begin to guess how many photos comprise this video. Beware of stimulation overload!

Blog post is here: Interestingness1
Video is here: Interestingness1 movie 75MBs
Flickr image and text: Interestingness1 on Flickr

23 Apr 2006 Happy Birthday Alvin!
Author: Gail |  Category: Family  | 3 Comments

I don’t think my brother reads my website, but seeing as I live practically on the other side of the country now, this will be my virtual public birthday e-card to him (lasts longer than an e-card, too!).

It all started with those chipmunk cheeks:

Alvin the Chipmunk, circa 1978 or so
Alvin, 3

Alvin was the only one in my family who was born in Canada, thus eternally spared from the cost and hassle of obtaining a Canadian Citizenship Card to get a passport. Something I’m sure my parents didn’t have in mind when they bore him, but… I digress.

I remember the day he was born, even though I wasn’t yet three years old at the time. Allan, who was nearly four, and I had to wait in the car in the parking lot of St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg. It was 1975 and we were two restless kids, waiting, waiting, waiting. I think my mother still has the photo of us sitting on TOP of the car. In those days I don’t recall it being unusual for us to be unsupervised, but maybe we were acting up and Dad exiled us to the car where we could be as loud as we wanted and took a photo for posterity. After all, Allan and I, at 12.5 months apart, are even closer in age than Melissa and Michael. With all the fighting going on between us, we were looking forward to another sibling for tie-breakers and sharing chores and victimisation!

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23 Apr 2006 Tweak, Tweak
Author: Gail |  Category: Unabashed Geekiness, gailatlarge.com  | Leave a Comment

That’s the sound of me manipulating lines of code as I bring to you a couple of bright and shiny new pages, hot off the online publishing press. (English idioms are nonsense, aren’t they?) They’re available for clicking at the navigation bar above.

Archives

Not just any old archive system, this uses ELA — Extended Live Archives by Arnaud Froment — which implements a dynamic archive, allowing the user to browse through without having to reload the page. Have a look! I don’t know if it will work with all browsers, so there’s always the sidebar to dig around with.

Links

I also made a separate Links page with categories. I think I’ll tweak this more in the future, but for now I’ve imported the OPML from Bloglines and I’m working with that. (You didn’t think I hand-coded this page, did you???)

Also:

  • My Contact page has been updated, for those in the know.
  • The Photography page has been trimmed down and an image strip added.
  • The About and Videoclips pages will change soon, too, once I figure out a better way to display them.

As always, feedback is appreciated!