Entries from May 2006 ↓

Try to arrange your life in such a way that you can be disinterested. It is the most expensive of all luxuries and the one best worth having. -Dean Inge

Looks like Yahoo! has finally allowed for some changes at Flickr. About bloody time. Flickr hasn’t seen a decent new feature in I don’t know how long and that’s pretty disappointing.

Changes are to include navigation, search, organizr, menus and an increase in the number of photos viewable on a single page. Not a bad list but it’s hardly a complete one. The changes should be available in the next week or so.

Now how about adding statistics, comment notification or any of a multitude of fairly obvious features that should be a part of the site? I love Flickr and all but feature stagnation keeps me from going Pro. I just don’t see a compelling reason to pay when I don’t want to store all my photos online.

I had my first experience with Automator on Sunday evening. It started when MiHwa sent some pics of her trip to DeokSu palace. This was the palace we went to last year only to find it was closed for renovations. We watched the guard changing ceremony and then hiked to Gwanghwamun Palace all while my cold festered culminating with my ears blowing off my head on the flight to Japan. Of course you already knew that so let’s move on…

Anyway, in one of the pictures she had what I would call her serious face. I know that face as I have caused it to appear on more than one occasion. It’s bad news my friend ’cause when I see it I know I’ve dissappointed/angered her and will shortly be entering the world of hurt.

So we were chatting away and I was laughing that I needed to write a script that would display that picture at 9PM every night. Why would I need to see this picture at a set time every night? When she was here, she instigated the thou shalt not smoke after 9PM rule. I bristled at first, mostly because there was now a rule where there wasn’t one before but soon I accepted it (sort of). Now she’s 8,000 kms away and well, sometimes I ‘forget’ about the rule.

So I decided to give it a shot and see if I could pull this off. I fired up Automator and 10 minutes later, I had it working. It was so easy it’s practically stupid. MiHwa was sorta happy, though not all that impressed with the idea of me using her picture to remind myself of the rule.

At least she could concede that is was kinda cool and now, I have an automatic reminder of how I disappoint her. That’s real life tech…

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