Photo category
Posted: Mon 18 July, 2005 Filed under: Photography, Resolutions, Thoughts 1 Comment »While I’m stumbling around thinking about how to write a CMS for a photoblog (yes, I think that’s the way I’m going to go with it – having looked at a couple of photoblog templates, they’ve annoyed the shite out of me very quickly for not doing stuff the way I want – oh good, more coding work) I’ve changed around my blogroll a bit.
There’s now a new category, simply named “photography” for the photographic sites I look at regularly, such as Chromasia, DDOI and so on. I just want to keep the two sections seperate for a while, and see how I do with it.
I’ve got a lot of photo stuff coming up – for our Anniversary thing, Herself bought me a portfolio (I’ve been saying about doing one all this year, and hadn’t got round to it just yet) so I’m also going to be working on building that up in order to whore out sell some of my stuff, with any luck. It’ll be interesting to see who says what when I get round to touting it about a bit.
All of which makes this kind of thing a lot more interesting, of course…
Brief Pause
Posted: Mon 18 July, 2005 Filed under: D4D™ Leave a comment »Yes, I’m still alive. I just ended up decided that my “quiet weekend” would also consist of little to no time on the computer, and so I took a proper break for a couple of days.
It was a bit “spur of the moment”, otherwise I’d have written a couple of posts that could go up on a post-dated thing like I normally do when I’m away for a weekend. But well, I didn’t. Nowt I can do about it now, so it’s just one of those things.
Normal service will now be resumed.
When?
Posted: Fri 15 July, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts 2 Comments »As the world and its dog knows, the new Harry Potter book comes out tonight. Well, technically it’s tomorrow.
One of the shops here has it listed as “midnight Friday” for the release of the book, and they’ll be open at “midnight Friday” in order for people to buy it. Now, while I have to wonder about anyone who’s going to hang about in Wokingham town centre at midnight for a book (when they could get Amazon to deliver it a mere eight hours later at about half the price) I also have to wonder whether “midnight Friday” is the correct term.
I would say that “midnight Friday” equates with “one minute after 11.59pm on Thursday”. Really it should be “midnight Saturday”, shouldn’t it?
Reasons to Worry
Posted: Fri 15 July, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts, Weirdness 3 Comments »OK, I’m beginning to worry about myself a bit. In the last 24 hours I have :
- Been quite pleased about having a quiet weekend.
- Been chucked out of a gig before I even get in to it
- added a photo of a man in a bunnysuit over there –>
- put the same photo as the wallpaper on my phone
- started thinking about what would go into my own self-written photoblog CMS
- even come up wsith a potential name for it
- complained about an error in a newspaper (well, news website) and managed to get them to change it
and, most worryingly of all,
Soon I’ll be getting out some slippers, and having afternoon naps.
Quiet Weekend
Posted: Fri 15 July, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts Leave a comment »Amazingly, we actually have a quiet weekend planned. It’s the first one in far too long. Friends are here today and tonight, and we’re out at another friends tonight for a barbecue and birthday thing. Then they’re off home tomorrow, and lo, quiet weekend.
Can’t wait.
Arse’oles
Posted: Fri 15 July, 2005 Filed under: Customer Services, Music, Photography, Sweary, Thoughts 7 Comments »Dear Brixton Academy,
You utter, utter bunch of cunts. I arrived at the venue last night to see Nine Inch Nails, which I’d been looking forward to since the tickets went on sale. When I got to the door, the security jobsworth motherfucker person searched me and my bag, and refused me access.
My sin? To be carrying a camera. To whit, a digital camera. Now, I realise that the ticket says “no professional cameras”, which is fair enough. And mine, while nice, is most definitely not a professional camera. But no, it turns out that – according to Brixton Academy – “professional” is the same as “digital”. If you’ve got a digital camera, you’re not coming in. If you’ve got a 35mm camera, you’re not coming in. Non-professional cameras would be non-digital, non-zoom, “use once” cameras. And that’s about it. Fucking hell, my bastard phone is listed as a professional camera under your classifications.
Oh, I did get told “you can leave it with us, and collect it at the end of the show“, but that comes listed under the “Yeah, right, pull the other one it’s got fucking bells on” scheme of things.
So, all told, that’s £40 up the swanny. I don’t know if the “no digital cameras” is the policy of the venue or the band, or if it’s just that you have utter fuckwit bastard cunts for doormen. Quite honestly I’ve no intention of finding out. Because I won’t be going back to Brixton Academy again.
You cunts.
Sincerely.
Lyle.
UPDATED : What really rankles is then seeing other people’s photos from the gig.
Photobloggery
Posted: Thu 14 July, 2005 Filed under: Photography 5 Comments »(Note : I’m going to I did leave this at the top of the page for a few days. There’s new stuff underneath, just scroll down a bit…)
I’m thinking about setting up a seperate blog (potentially held under a different site name) purely for photos. I like the design and ideas behind Chromasia, but I know he runs that on MT, which is a bag of worms I really don’t want to get into.
So, what I wonder is this : does anyone run a pure photoblog under WordPress? Or is it going to be easier for me to write some stuff myself in order to do it how I want? Or even just use a different CMS entirely? (I’m currently slightly edging towards the latter, if only because I’m a sad sod, and don’t have a problem with learning yet another piece of software)