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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.

Chocolate, the way it was meant to be

Cameron — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:12:30 +0000

I bought some chocolates at Haighs today (well, yesterday) and would just like to proclaim to the world that I was thoroughly impressed with the whole process. The fact that I was requested to inspect the goods before purchasing them (ie. the guy opened the box and showed them all to me,) the way he spent a good 4-5 minutes wrapping them despite the shop being absolutely packed with people buying chocolates for Easter (I wasn’t, fwiw) and the line being at least ten people long (this was at the Adelaide arcade store, you feel crowded when there’s four people in there, let alone fourteen!), the way the box was gift wrapped, then put and a protective bag, and in a carry bag, and finally the way in which at the conclusion of the whole process, he asks me “And would you like some chocolate?”

It made being a customer truly pleasurable.