Suddenly gripped with an idea for how to do tagging in Singleshot, I created a virtual item type called ImagesByTagItem (and the notion of virtual items — items without a representation on the filesystem) and had its _load_items method cheerfully crawl the image store looking for images with the given tag in their ITPC keywords.
It’s […]
Inspired by reading about ITPC tagging and noticing that my image browser of choice, BreezeBrowser supported ITPC tagging, I set out to add support for reading those tags to Singleshot.
I first added an IMAGESIZER implementation that used PIL so Singleshot could use either PIL or ImageMagick as a way to generate thumbnails. Then […]
Heat recently smote a disk in my Linux server. The machine had two SATA drives in the 3.5″ bays. Several months ago, one of these failed. I assumed it was a typical statistical lossage and replaced the drive.
The new drive failed within six months. […]
Check your disks’ running temperatures. Be sure they’re not operating outside their envelope. The disk you save may be your own.
Of course I had to apply the header rotating technology I developed for the other blog to this blog’s header image.
In this case, I added a semi-transparent white rectangle to ensure the header text is readable over any of the possible background images without having to limit myself to a narrow set of colors in […]
I’ve been working on a site for some family members and selected the WP theme Travelogue for the WordPress install. I made a few modifications to the theme for my own use, including replacing the photo used in the upper left corner Polaroid. Replacing the Polaroid photo is relatively easy but […]
Until today, I had no idea you could download the Windows Media encoder software for free. It’s nice.
I sort of feel guilty for using a single-platform media format. Sadly, Windows Media is just better than Quicktime in a couple of key areas: a) the player b) the encoding software available to […]
I had a slow pan of this building as well as a bunch of stills intended to be stitched.
The still shots (15 shots):
The video stitch (57 frames):
I say “unfairly” because I apparently mangled the exposure of the still shots and shot it from a different position. I also avoided past the sign while […]
I finally got around to testing out my theory that a decent panorama could be made from frames pulled out of a slow pan using a camcorder.
I used Premiere Pro to extract all the frames and AutoStitch to stitch a selection of them. Photoshop’s Photomerge was unable to automatically place all the frames correctly. […]
This is pretty old (from a 2003 keynote), but I hadn’t seen it.
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy:
Good morning, everybody. I want to talk this morning about social software …there’s a surprise. I want to talk about a pattern I’ve seen over and over again in social software that supports large and long-lived groups. […]
Once you stop getting new information, make a decision. Exactly one person must own every decision. A wrong decision is frequently better than no decision.
Almost every technical decision has usability implications.
The engineers have to care about usability to even recongize the questions.