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Aesir Photo Gallery – Powered by Zenphoto

Cameron — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:54:20 +0000

The Aesir Photo Gallery is up and running. Website isn’t much yet, but photos are the most fun to look at. A website might be useful for prospective members and such to find out a bit about the crew, but hopefully the photos give a bit of an insight into the kinds of fun we get up to

The photo software I chose for the Flash Rovers photo gallery is called back in the day when I was a flash prospective and set up their website with Anton is called Zenphoto. Since then, I’ve noticed Fullarton Venturers and Chloe using it too

It’s great software – very simple, easy to use and less overloaded than Gallery2. Open source of course (all the good stuff is these days!) That said, with every new version they’re implementing new features and some of it feels like bloat to me. I guess it’s hard to say which features should be included (some are really useful, like captchas for comment posting, and drag and drop sorting of albums) while some are less so (like buttons on the frontpage of the admin control panel to refresh EXIF data and reset image hit counters.)

Apparently they’re going to be implementing a plugin system soon, which should alleviate some of the problems and develop some long tail goodness.

Google Calendar is Sweet

Cameron — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:17:23 +0000

Google calendar is sweet. I just created a crew calendar for Aesir (my Rover Crew) incorporating SA Rover events, public holidays and crew activities and embeded it into a webpage – took no time at all

All available in ical format for easy digestion by applications which support ical (which is an open standard )

It’s times like this when things just work that I really love Google.

Ramble Report

Cameron — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:13:45 +0000

I’ve been spamming my Rambler’s Badge Report around a bit lately, but if you haven’t seen it, check it out! The basic gist of it was that I organised I hike in the Flinders with 4 other Rovers – Anton, Kate, Jess and Nat. We walked 126km over 7 days and had an awesome time. Weather was good, and all the planning paid off with everything going smoothly. The report is pretty long, but there’s some nice photos in there too. Oh for the non-scouty people out there, the Rambler’s Badge is part of the Baden Powell Award, which is the Rover version of the Queen Scout Award.

Also updated my Heysen Trail completion log. 18% complete

And then I was Photoshopped

Cameron — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:30:00 +0000

So, sweet looking photo from EV, thanks to Daniel Salmond, lets make an avatar/display picture/100×100 image from it. We’ll have me on the left hand side with sky on the right…

Hmm lets get a bit more of the kilt in there so we know I’m not just wearing a pair of shorts…

Actually while we’re here, that watch isn’t very authentic, lets get rid of that then eh.

Hmm well seeing as we’re on a roll, lets darken the zinc cream to make it more woad-like, add a six pack (of rum?) increase the size of my arms… etc. etc. (can’t be bothered/am quite happy with the way I look anyway/wouldn’t say no to the rum though…)

I heart photoshop.

Helium Balloons, Mirrorballs and Christmas

Cameron — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:24:50 +0000

Note to self, don’t release helium balloons around your mirrorball/s.

Also, don’t make Christmas trees with your Jewish Joey.

So Roverball was fair awesome. The week leading up to it was pretty busy, but everyone had a great time on the night. Not sure about the budget as yet though. Some photos are at the GRovers website, and the Flash one.

Also, Paul said he was interested in going to the Chalet = “fuck’n epic!”

Heysen Trail Completion Log

Cameron — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:28:40 +0000

I’ve spent the morning whipping up a nifty Heysen Trail Completion Log for myself. I give it the total number of km I have completed and php creates the percentage and adjusts the completion bar for me. I learnt a bit about css clipping and positioning and also how to get php running inside a css file, so the exercise wasn’t completely without merit.

If I was feeling particularly hardcore, I could have it run off a database, but it’s just not worth the effort really.

Searching for my towel

Cameron — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:31:01 +0000

Yes, I am searching for my towel. This does not bode well for the coming weekend.