So, after talking to Will, he's going to migrating his colo box from FreeBSD to Linux and during the process will be upgrading to PHP5, This will allow me to integrate some of the prebuilt modules for both twitter and flickr integration and the best part, not waste a lot of time reinventing the wheel coding it myself!

So, for the next few weeks or so, it'll likely just be manual updates and a few photoblog posts!

I had planned to integrate tweets (twitter) into the site, but have run into a snag where an older version of PHP is installed on this box. In the past, when I ran my on server, this would not be a problem at all. But you see, I now host it on a friend's colo server and he hosts many other sites. So, it's looking like an upgrade to PHP5 may not be in the question for a while now.

Maybe this will force me to write some code and do it myself. hmmmm....

Though, to be fair, that's one of the reasons I moved to drupal. I wanted to write more and focus less on code.

-M

As You all may notice, there is a theme change here. I upgraded the base code from Version 5 of Drupal to the newest Version 6 and ran into some problems with my Aquax and Empire themes.

Rather than rack my brain any further on it, I decided to install one of the "contributed" themes and just modify it to my taste. Other than the banner image, it's all still pretty much stock, but you can be expecting a few changes over the next few days/weeks as I personalize it to my taste.

Anyhow, the reason for this is that I've decided to start using my website again for a myriad of purposes. I'll be integrating some twitter action, so as to get the microblog updates I so regularly do now, as well as integrating with both flickr and my business website (http://conceptofproof.com) to do some photoblogging. I also plan to do trip writeups and synopsis to show some of the paths that I've taken during my travels and photo journeys.

Anyhow, look forward to updates. They may not be as frequent at first, but will become continually more frequent as I get things tightened up with the website itself.

Thanks!
M

Occasionally, I am asked the question of what my typical workflow is. While it has changed many times over the years, this is the latest iteration. Mind you, I use this setup for my photography and my "day" job as well.

It consists of the following:

   - 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
   - 2GB DDR2 SDRAM
   - 256MB ATI Radeon X1600
   - 2x250GB Accomdata External Firewire drives for cold backup and Media (RAW Photos and Music)

21" Samsung Syncmaster - 1600x1200

It gets the job done.

I Love my kid!

To those of you that didn't know, I spent some time banging skins for The Shut Up Shop. Though we did not play a phenomenal amount of shows, we were blessed to play with some great bands. Sitting here at work, Do The Leg by Eaton Lake Tonics cycled onto the trusty ipod. The more I hear this music, the more I enjoy it. It's catchy and has some great hooks. It's hard to describe what genre it would fit in, but I'd file it under indie/pop.

I digress. One of the bands that we were fortunate to play with was ELT. They were a blast to hear live. If you get a chance, catch up and lend an ear to these fine fellows. I insist you'll have an enjoyable experience.

p.s. This was filed under blog as it's not really a review. In case you were wondering