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Entries from 'October 2007'

Tiles2KML Borks System After Install, Uninstall

October 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I was going to Aside this entry, but I realized there’d be too many words I’d want to convey in relation to the issue. With that said — I took about half the day yesterday, trying to determine why on Earth FWTools and OpenEV wouldn’t load — passing out a bizarre error message:
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  • Sat, 27 Oct 2007 at 6:00 am · I upgraded the site to WordPress 2.3.1 over a morning coffee. One of the major upgrades last week was to version 2.3 — after waiting awhile until a few plug-ins caught-up. I still have to go through the entire site and clean-up the taxonomy — recategorizing and adding tags, possibly sending a couple of the less interesting posts to the bin. I’m really digging this upgraded schema though — kind of can’t wait to see if someone figures out they can tie-in the taxonomy structure with a visual representation of tagged images. · (0)

Easy Asides for WordPress

October 26th, 2007 · 36 Comments

I was looking for a way to incorporate Asides posts in my WordPress template, and came across a few options. Unfortunately, none of the options that I found would accomodate the way that I have my AdSense ads recursing through the loop to figure out at what position to place them. (Unfortunately, you have a […]

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  • Fri, 26 Oct 2007 at 9:52 am · Gabe Rudy sent a note that he’s updated his Seam Carving standalone program, developed in Qt with the CAIR library. I’ve tested it, and aside from being potentially the most complete of the GUI versions, it’s arguably the fastest. · (0)

The Many Faces of Social Networking

October 24th, 2007 · No Comments

The term Avatar is generally synonymous with the metaverse — but in social-networking circles, the term Gravatar has become a widely adopted term. These are the little 75 or 80 pixel square icons that users add to their profiles, or share attached with accounts and services — to display globally in forums, blogs, news sites, […]

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Seam Carving Round-Up

October 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments

There’s been a great deal of buzz for a couple months, concerning a technology known as Seam Carving — also being refered to as Content Aware Image Resizing or Aware Image Resizing. I’ve been experimenting with this for awhile, and I’m seeing some wonderful potential and practicaliy in its use — though, at the moment, […]

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  • Thu, 4 Oct 2007 at 6:53 pm · I caught the release of the WordPress Petition Plug-in through the feeds, and couldn’t help but note it. I’ve wondered how long it would be for the blogosphere to incorporate utility to organize and project in the true spirit of democracy — the inherent functionality that the Internet affords us, above all else. Unfortunately, my technical geek-ish-ness is usually undermined by being just as aware that there remains to be only ~50% of the US population with access to the Internet. A sobering thought, isn’t it? Perhaps ironic — about the same number of people typically turn-out to vote in elections. · (0)