Posts Tagged ‘flickr’

All over the map

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

For better or worse, I seem to be updating my various social web accounts these days, and somewhat separately. Not duplicating content really except for the video. I’m tempted to come up with another “master” feed for all these on the home page again. But maybe they’re all best left in their own places. Well, if you’re missing out on one, feel free to join on.

Blog

you are here — haha. Right now the focus is weight loss. For a long time the focus was web development. I’m okay with it switching around.  Who cares. :)

Facebook

Everyone I know IRL is on this.  Don’t really want to publish everything here for that reason.  Just harmless status updates here and there.

YouTube / Qik

Got no live performance skills, per se — kinda shy, but video is a great way to connect.  And video production is something I should be more comfortable with. So I suffer through it. :)

Twitter

Used to be about posting web dev links.  Still is a little, but getting more about personal updates in the last few months.  Lost followers for that, haha.  Whatever. :)

Flickr

I blew my 365 project after christmas.  Uploaded so many photos I lost count of where I was on the project.  Now I just put journal/twitpic type photos into it with my phone as I go through.  But not an everyday thing now.  At least twice a week I’d say.

Gowalla

I am not comfortable with location based socializing. But not like discomfort ever stopped me. Haha. Kinda kept this one under wraps, just enjoying seeing where people go for the hell of it.  I think only a couple friends live within 100 miles of me.  Whatever.

Podcast

I even had a podcast at one point about web development.  Had the same challenge there as with the video now, except there was too much production effort.  These things should all be dead simple or they won’t last.  Who’s got the time when it don’t pay the bills ya know?  I’ve been meaning to see if it’s much easier with the wordpress podcasting plugin.

Conclusion

I do all this for the technical wonderment. I really like being into the latest web services as a web developer and dude with an iphone. So ironic that a shy person like me puts themself all over the web like I do.  Hope it doesn’t bite me in the ass someday.  Oh well.  You only live once, some say.

    Clouds

    Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

    This is what I saw coming out of the gym yesterday, a day before our little rain came.

    My Flickr blog

    Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

    Each day I post a new picture on Flickr as part of my “365″ project. Go there if you want to see more of what’s up with me day to day.

    I started putting the pictures up here too, but,… bah.  I’ll save this for when I’m feeling more verbose.

    Check the home page for my current Flickr and Twitter posts.

    By the way, if you want pics on your blog to load really fast, store them on Flickr and use Flickr’s image URL in your posts instead of hosting the images on some poor little server where the blog is.

    Flickr photos on my website

    Monday, October 19th, 2009

    It’s been on my mind for a while, got it partially implemented a couple weeks back, and today I finally finished it: my Flickr pics on my homepage.

    I recently decided to make Flickr the primary place I upload personal photos. Facebook used to be the primary place to upload, but frankly, I’d rather have people going to my website than Facebook for my activity, and I’m not interested in being in front of people constantly, if much at all.  Where better to not be noticed than on your own site.

    One day I got a wild hair to start a picture-a-day project on Flickr called “365″. That restarted my interest in showing the pictures on my site.  And I just enjoy playing with API’s.  Especially well-done ones like Flickr’s.

    To get the pics showing, a cron job runs every night that uses the Flickr API to build a javascript file that my homepage calls whenever people visit. The response from the API takes too long to tie it directly to my website; best to have a little static file just ready to go whenever. So there’s a javascript data file made every night, then a javascript controller and CSS for the web page that puts it all together. And the jQuery library eases the javascript code as usual.

    27. Flickr on my homepage

    I’d imagine this is the most sensible approach. If you have a better way, please tell me in the comments here.

    It would be nice to incorporate a “Set” selector someday.  Good enough for now. :)

    Flickr 365 – More of a log than a gallery

    Saturday, October 17th, 2009

    More than 3 weeks in I am getting closer to missing a day. These were taken within a couple hours of midnight.

    Initially I had an alarm set that I have since turned off. Would be good for me to reactivate my alarms, for various reasons. Might have to do that.

    For whatever reason I haven’t promoted the latest photos on Twitter. This has caused my daily views to return to zero. That means people are not really subscribed on Flickr or this blog. Twitter has driven all of my hits.

    Well, if I have a good photo I’ll promote it. I wouldn’t say the above are good photos. Just follow through on a commitment to take a picture a day. More of a log than a gallery.

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