07.16.07
Posted in blog, personal at 8:24 am by wingerz
The past month has been quite busy. In addition to starting the new job, I went out to CA twice (once to celebrate my sister’s college graduation, once to visit Jen) and Montreal (to attend Matt & Amy’s beautiful wedding). Brian & Tina, Caroline & Brandon, and John all came to Boston to visit. Meanwhile, our refrigerator broke so I had to throw out all the food (including lots of ice cream) and get that taken care of as well.
My new laptop arrived several weeks ago, and I’ll be getting back to posting photos once I get my monitor calibrated. The photo-processing backlog has grown to several months, and I’m eager to get back to them.
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05.06.07
Posted in photos, blog at 8:51 pm by wingerz
A few days ago Brian collected and posted a list of his reader’s blogs. As a result of being included, I noticed some extra traffic coming to my site. To accommodate new readers I’ve set up a feed for my photography-related posts, which is perfect for fellow photographers who aren’t all that interested in my occasional post about the Semantic Web and video games.
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10.12.06
Posted in blog, technology, amusing, development at 6:45 pm by wingerz
Digg is not the best source of news, but it certainly is amusing. Lots of fun YouTube videos and an occasional interesting blog post or article. Comments are usually good for a laugh too. Users submit links and other users digg it up or bury it down. For the most part I only monitor the popular stories.
I threw together a quick-and-dirty Wordpress plugin to show the last 10 things that I dugg in the sidebar. You can do it by sourcing some Javascript from digg (it just does document.write()s - no JSON). Rather than rely on that, I curl it every few minutes and source the local copy instead.
A quick scan of the current headlines makes me quite happy.
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10.11.06
Posted in blog, technology, development at 7:09 pm by wingerz
One of the weird things about programming is that you can spend a good amount of time doing something like refactoring or reorganizing your code and you feel a sense of accomplishment afterwards, even if no one notices.
I’ve heard that it’s good to have some area of focus for your blog. Unfortunately, there are a variety of topics that I enjoy posting about. Rather than set up two blogs, I’ve decided to separate the content into four main areas:
- Technology: Work, coding, techy stuff.
- Food: Eating in and dining out, hopefully with a lot of drool-inducing photos.
- Games: Video games and other diversions, mostly Nintendo fanboyism.
- Personal: Life events and observations, along with wacky stuff that comes my way.
The few lines of code that I had to write/update dealt with feed generation - I just wanted to be able to pass a category name to the function that creates feed links. I also had to modify one SQL statement so that it would fetch comments on posts in a specified category rather than all comments on all posts. WordPress’s comment feed code was RSS only, so I decided to use Feedburner to expose the feed in other formats.
I’m still playing around with the category hierarchy. I’d also like to make it more obvious that there are four areas, probably by applying a different theme to each one.
In the end, I’m not sure how much of a difference this will make because I’m surrounded by engineers who love to play video games and cook.
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