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• 03.21.07 Site Update posted in geekery, personal, the site

  I had a short conversation with a friend this morning, and he had suggested how nice it would be to have a “Download” link available while in the photogallery slideshows. I agreed.

  If you are not familiar, the script I am using to display the zooms of our photos is an handy-dandy opensource script by the name of Lightbox. And as such, adding a download link to the zooms required that I examine that code a little closer. I scanned the lines for a few minutes and Bob’s your uncle. I managed to slide an extra button into the mix. So… now when you view a zoomed image, you should see a “Download” button next to the “Close” button. As with most image downloads, clicking it will pop the image in it’s own window, while right-clicking will let you decided what to do with it.

  Enjoy.

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• 12.16.06 All we want for Xmas posted in personal, the site

  <shameless ploy>

  It’s not too late to buy us presents for the holidays! We’ve added some links to our Amazon wishlists down at the bottom of the page. Feel free to purchase a book for Nora or a CD for the ‘rents.

  </shameless ploy>
  

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• 11.29.06 Back from T-day posted in personal, the site

  We got back from our vacay on Monday. Things have been a bit busy with un-packing, cleaning the house, and catching up on work left unfinished before we left. All the photes from the weekend have been downloaded to Echo Base, but I have yet to catalogue them and whatnot. Sorry. I promise that will get done tonite.

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• 11.13.06 The update continues posted in personal, the site

  Relax my friends and family. The archives are slowly being filled with pre-dated entries for all of our photes. I’ve been working for as long as my eyes can stand to look at a glowing computer screen. I’m hoping to have the archives filled with photes dated back to Nora’s birth by the weekend.

  In the meantime, I’ve added links down below for our Amazon wishlists. If you haven’t finished your Christmas shopping yet, look there to get some ideas. Nora, of course, get’s all priority. Spoil her rotten so that we don’t have to.

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• 11.09.06 Changes posted in geekery, the site

  I was bored, and as such, I will be making changes to the site. Please bear with me.

  update: I’ve decided to go with a pre-packaged WordPress theme for the site. It’s very clean and very much along the lines of something I would have done if I had the time to put for a good effort. Of course, I’ve modified a few snippets of code here and there.

  Also, I’ve decided to incorporate the photogallery into the blog. There are a lot of gallery “solutions” for WordPress, but they mostly suck. So… I’ve written a little PHP script that lists thumbnails for all the images in a specified folder. Now we can easily preface our photes, and you can easily comment on them.

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• 08.10.06 Goin’ to the Chapel. posted in personal, the site

  And we’re gonna watch Shawn and Laura get married. As such, there will be even a greater delay in me being on top of putting photes in the photolog. Expect the wife to crack the whip on my back sometime next Tuesday.

  The wedding is in Iowa City, IA. It’ll roughly be a 20-21 hour drive with child. We’re leaving tonite when I finish work and driving as long as we can before stopping. It might be Billings. It might be Sheridan. It might be Sturgis. Only the shadow knows. Hopefully, Nora behaves and we can have a relatively stress-free drive. Cross your fingers and hold your thumbs.

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• 07.16.06 Sorry for the phote delays. posted in geekery, the site

  As a previous post mentioned, we purchased a new machine for the house. A fantastic toy that will take the place of this and next years’ Xmas gift. So, I have been busily setting the machine up so that my old PowerBook can be sold to help offset the cost of the iMac. I hope to have everything in order by Monday night, so you can expect a flurry of new photos on the photolog that evening.

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• 06.21.06 New blog. posted in the site

  We are sorry for the horrendously long hiatus, but Matthew and Sarah have been a tad bit preoccupied. You see, they’re having a child any day now. ‘Tis due on the 25th, but it might just drop sooner. We’ll see.

  At any rate, they should be able to blog more regularly in the near future. Who knows, maybe the kid will start blogging before long.

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