the greatest woman in indianapolis
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happy birthday mom!
this picture reminds me of everything i love you for.
here’s to hoping i see you soon.
i miss you more than words can express.
j.
steenky daisies (my 2600th photo!)
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whoohoo
its a celebration
they may be stinky, but i love ‘em. kinda like Yahweh and us:)
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thanks tj & jill for inviting us over to the Fun House (as in Fun, not wacky:). the view of rainier is unparalelled, and the kids had a wonderful time “at the river” (as jaylie keeps wanting to call it).
spending a beautiful clear summer at the lake with a view of rainier is tough to beat, and is good for the soul (and surely spirit).
alrighty. i’m Just About Done with this. i currently have it working locally (watch it there, you may not want to use your username & password, since it’ll show up in the server logs as part of the request (or not–crud its been *that* long since i can remember whether or not POST vars show up in the logs–as far as filling my drive up with pool images i don’t mind), but i want to have it use the newer Flickr Authentication API. this will make it easier to demo on this machine, as well as give more peace of mind to those installing the software!
the gist:
the program grabs a list of the groups you belong to, and lets you choose one, downloads the images and thumbnails, and creates (or updates) the corresponding SimpleViewer gallery.
my application is so i can have a local version of my interested groups to back up to a disc, or even have an auxillary site for a group i admin.
should be ready for testing for interested parties by the next week or so…one major kink is that some of the “weirdly named” groups have trouble in SimpleViewer.
another thing i’m puzzled by, is how the Auth API has a mode for either web based or non web based, but it seems to be making an assumption that a web based application is for the public to visit a single website. What about apps such as i’m putting together (and the flickr gallery even) — a web based application that runs on individuals’ machines? I can’t think of a good way to not compromise the shared secret except by having all the individual web apps auth through me (so i can pass the secret over) *then* through flickr.
hmmm. someone must have asked this before, and granted i just started looking at the spec today, so i’m probably missing something. time to check the flickr forums.
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for this friday’s photo friday.
i was a little heartbroken when i saw the challenge this week (but ey why do they call it a challenge anyway?:) — joy suggested that perhaps i should do something with hair…so i went through my portraits, and almost used this, and happened across this again, so on a tangent i spent some time touching it up…and almost used it (her lips are actually kinda silky).
as i was coming in this morning however i was looking up at the clouds, thinking to myself how silky they were..boom! oh wait, but not being one to try to be *that* literal, i remembered that one set where i captured clouds had quite a few pictures with an unintentional “silky glow” to them…so i decided to push it again, and present to you the above image. :)
I mentioned earlier about the utility of SimpleViewer, and how it probably could be used to pull from flickr, and display photos. well what do you know; i started writing a little app that will be used for pulling from one of your subscribed groups into a local dir. I wrote it because our beatography group wants to have some kind of “outpost”, coming from our flickr pool photos. it’s written in php, and it’s all controlled from a URL, passing your flickr user and pass, and the group name or ID.
some groups i’ve pulled as tests
TODO:
i think its off to a good start. i’ve learned enough writing this that this is a positive step on my way to my master plan spoken of ages ago about my own flickr cache, suitable for burning. :)
i’ll have a front end available during the weekend probably, and have this generally available by the end of the month (we’re moving!!! so we’ll be busy)
why haven’t i seen any white people giving their testimony about why “unlimited rentals” are not really unlimited? so far i’ve seen black and what appears as hispanic. hmmm
hoping i’m wrong about this.
UPDATE: just saw some white people in the commercial. they musta heard me complaining. ;-)
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fun time had by all on a rainy sunday afternoon!
lots of my girl’s friends came out, and had a fun 6th(!)
thanks for all the facepainting jill, and thanks for all the big people for helping so much! there weren’t organized games, but the big people were good at taking what we brought (we did have a bit of balls, paddles and the like), and having fun with the kids.
here’s to the next +sun!
