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Trying out some new software

Posted on September 25, 2004 | Filed Under Internet

As you can see the site has changed quite a bit in the last few days. I’ve added quite a bit of stuff, like the left hand sidebar that shows the most recents posts on the blog, a category listing of the different posts, a calendar to see the current months post, a search and RSS feeds.

I have also worked with CSS to enable little treatments on the site like the dotted underlinging of links and changing color when you hover over them. Now, I am finally getting my photos online using an application I found today called Galerie. If you use iPhoto for your images and want to post them on the Web, this application is the best I’ve seen anywhere.

It was incredible simple to use and has more user-configurable features than any other plug-in or application — best of all, it’s free.

To make an album, just start the application — it launches iPhoto for you — and choose the iPhoto album that you want to use. Then it’s just a matter of changing the size of the images and thumbnails and Galerie looks after everything else for you. I tried to use the built-in upload feature, but I didn’t have any luck with that. No matter, I just uploaded them directly into the ftp and everything works.

I wish it had a feature to make an index page, but I can do one of those too. This is a damn cool application!

Update: Seems I made a mistake about the application’s ability to produce an index page of all the albums. I updated the blog.

The Twiggy update

Posted on September 25, 2004 | Filed Under Family

Well, Twiggy has been with us for several months now and she is doing great. Earlier today we went to the local SPCA Dog Jog, an event that features fly ball and agility demonstrations, as well as showing some of the dogs that are currently in the SPCA waiting to be adopted.

Monique and I took the kids, but unfortunately we couldn’t take Twiggy with us — we just weren’t sure how she would react in that situation and didn’t want to take any chances. We did talk to the organizers of the fly ball club and told them Twiggy has been trained in the sport, so they invited us to a class tomorrow.

I’m pretty excited to see how she will do tomorrow because many of the characteristics we notice in Twiggy were present in the dogs today: high-energy, focus, determination, loyalty. It was really incredible to see so many dogs behaving like she does. We figured that fly ball would be a really good release for her and from what we hear, she was pretty good at it — maybe we’ll have a champion.

When we started fostering her, they recommended she be placed in a home without kids because of her demeanor, but she is doing very well with ours. We couldn’t ask for a better, if not a little calmer dog.