Okay. The headache has receded. I don't know what brought it on but it was rather painful. A couple of big multimedia things today -- late in coming. A couple weeks ago I attended the graduation of one of my cousins - Elise, of the Butler clan. It was really interesting seeing everyone -- as their faces were all familiar - but I was only able to recall a few names. Fortunately, you the viewer don't have to recognize either the faces or the names. You don't have to do anything. But, if you prefer to, you can peruse some of the occasion at my new Flickr setup here. (Most of you will know that by clicking on the pictures on that page you can get a bigger image and other goodies, but I thought I'd mention it for those of you not up to the savvy) I also hooked up that little daily zeitgeist thing on the side, so that will be morphing and changing as I upload more pictures this month.
The other big upload of the day is this 2mb movie that features a short snippet of Elise's quartet from the graduation party. Those in the know will be able to scan the crowd and recognize many faces. Those of you outta the loop will have to settle for the limited notations on the photos in the Flickr. I tried my darndest to get that movie file size down to a reasonable amount. I'm astounded that Myerk was able to shrink wrap his drummer movie into a mere 500 kb. Wish I had that kind of power.
I should be a little more attentive to content around here in the coming days. I was distracted a little by the struggles for a more cohesive form and perhaps the hours of rearranging divs and ids was what set off the headache in the first place. Rather disheartening that I took all the time to set up that photo page and upload the scripts to create automatic galleries before I decided to give Flickr a try. There is so much cruft, so many broken links on this site that have been indexed since I made the switch over to .php from html. A simple htaccess redirect would change all that -- but I haven't a clue how to manage that yet.
Went to the library and picked up XML in a Nutshell, The Essential Guide to RF and Wireless and The Cybrarian's Manual in an effort to become the consummate geek in the shortest amount of time. I figure that while I've got the behavioral aspects down, I've still got quite a bit of the technical side to catch up to. It's amazing how much easier it is to read these books with their larger font as opposed to the 8pt font in my Proust book which has sat mostly undisturbed the past few weeks at my bedside...
Well -- I best be on to the geekdom building...TO THE WINDOWWWWW TO THE WALL!!!!
