Well the last few days I have updated many things in a lot of different areas, the most noticeable right away is I have updated my website theme, I’m still not 100% happy with it, link colors are a bit off and such but its “good enough” to go live, if your reading this via an RSS feed go check out my main page and drop me some feedback. ( if your really interested in the theme and want it for your own website you can grab it at http://www.imbrandon.com/misc/human_0.5.tar.gz
I’ve released it under GPLv2 , its not perfect but its exactly what I’m running as of this writing. )
The next thing is I changed ISP from Comcast Cable ( ugh ) to Yahoo! Branded AT&T 6M/768k DSL, not only is this faster and cheaper than my old connection, it has the nice side effect of giving me a flickr Pro account free* ( *included in the connection price somehow I’m sure ), that brings us to the next change …
I’ve started using my flickr pro account and am loving it, with things like the fuse filesystem FlickrFS and kFlickr makes using flickr easy and painless. Along with that there is this awesome GPL wordpress plugin FAlbum that lets me integrate my Flickr sets into a photoalbum on wordpress very simply and looks great too. Visit my new web album here http://www.imbrandon.com/images/ ( I’ve uploaded just over 100 photos to get it started, I still need to tag and sort most of them )
And last but not least on top of my Ubuntu Core Developer Status, I’ve finally got in contact with a “full-time” sponsor for my contributions in Debian, this will make my application for NM alot smoother with an Advocate ( when I get around to filling out the NM form, LOL ), wish me luck.
Says:
December 7th, 2007 at 6:05 am
Hi Brandon,
Nice clean theme, has a tidy feeling to it in a human kind of look :).
Just no sure if this intedend, when i maximize on epiphany (firefox too), the background (human theme) doesn’t scale, and I see white background. Here is a shot:
http://www.digitalself.org/~alfmatos/imbrandon.com-epiphany.png
Says:
December 7th, 2007 at 9:20 am
I’m not having the background issue so hopefully it’s taken care of.
I had a good chuckle when I saw this theme and I’ve got to say it’s pretty cool. I’d change the pinkish colour though as I don’t think it fits well.
Very cool none the less.
Says:
December 7th, 2007 at 10:38 am
This is actually pretty sharp, wasn’t sure at first, but after scrolling up and down a few times it looks good. The background scaling is off when I expand the window, other than that pretty damn nice bro.
Says:
December 8th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Any tips on the Flickrfs stuff, or does it “just work”? I just bought my first digital camera, so will be playing around with that shortly. btw, you don’t need to have a pro account to use flickrfs do you?
Says:
December 10th, 2007 at 6:24 am
No you dont need a Flickr pro account to use the flickrfs, but without a pro account you are limited to 100MB of transfer a month, iirc the pro account is $24 a year, well worth it now that i have used it.
as for FlickFS, it “just works” , i like it far better than the GUI apps on linux so far.
Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 4:35 am
What do you mean ?