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Projectness

1:01pm JST Friday 11 January 2008 (day 13806)

1. adding an invite-yer-friends program to blogger station

2. wanting an easy way to publish pics from iPhoto to my site:

   • Tate
   • myPhoto
   • iPhotoToGallery

3. wanting to clean out my gmail inbox (need an easy way to post from gmail to my blog)

   IMified?

Lunch now so I can get off my computer and design the first item above.

get handover

6:01pm JST Friday 11 January 2008 (day 13806)

Natalie just called me from the GET Handover and I got to talk to Greg and Adriana! Great to hear their voices after two (2) years!!! Adriana just finished a voyage and Greg is leaving *tomorrow*.. wowowowowwowwoww

3:20am JST Saturday 12 January 2008 (day 13807)

Interesting; I just noticed that the poster I've had up in my room for almost a year is for that voyage. I think I'll give it to someone from that voyage's GET team once they get back.

myPhoto

12:29pm JST Friday 11 January 2008 (day 13806)

spoiler alert: Holy shit! I think I've found a solution to getting pics organized on my website!!!!!!!!!!

myPhoto rules!

HI Michael

I'd like to evaluate myPhoto; it seems *reeeally* close to what I want
(I'll FTP the results to my site).  I did the initial installation and
it set up my website (with basically an empty album). However, I was
uable to open the preference pane (Picture 13 attached)

I'm running OS X 10.4.11 on MacBook with Intel chip.  I doubt it
matters, but my iPhoto is version 6.06

I tried to register for your forum to post there, but I got a message
that said certain aspects of my registration look like I am a spammer.
 (Picture 15 attached)

I'm not a spammer.   (but that's what a spammer would say..  hmmmmm ;-)
I imagine it's because of my choice of email address.  I own
robnugen.com and my way of tracking spammers (whom I hate as much as
you) is to use the domain for which I'm registering as the username of
my email address.

If you have thoughts on how to resolve the preference pane issue, or
registering for your site, please let me know.  :-)

  - Rob!

--
The love that you give is the pain that you release.

12:41am JST Saturday 12 January 2008 (day 13807)

ooooh! A much longer reply!

Rob,

Glad to hear myPhoto looks like what you need. The issue you
encountered is due to my longstanding neglect to actually post an
update. I've attached an updated version of myPhotoPrefs to this email
which is recompiled to include Intel support. I expect that this
should do the trick for you.

Also, sorry about the forum thing. For a period, they were so
aggressive with my forums that I would get about 20 or so fake users a
day covering the entire site with fairly explicit, out there porn--not
quite the image I was going for. ;-) I tried implementing something of
a home-made solution to harden the forums, which has mostly worked,
but like you've seen, isn't quite perfect (and occasionally an odd
spammer will get through, get a post or two in, and then get banned
automatically). If you'd like, I could register you an account and
send you the details, although honestly, its been pretty quiet on there.

Anyways, I hope this helps and thanks for trying myPhoto!



                            -Mike

__________
Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me
spread!

3:25am JST Saturday 12 January 2008 (day 13807)

I'm hesitant to be crazy enthusiastic (I've been working on wanting a solution to this for a long time, BUT, this is the current state of my reply:

Hey Mike

Wow thanks for a fast and full-bodied reply; I have been getting less than such from other iPhoto to
website code writers, but I know everyone is in various states of busy-ness, and most questions on
forums tend to be from users who haven't yet RTFM.

I am happy to report that the preference pane did install.  Right now it is "Searching hard drive
for all libraries... ..."

While I'm waiting, if you don't mind, I have a couple of questions, in order from chit-chat to
problems on this end:

1) What kind of home-grown spam blocking solution did you write for phpBB forum?  I've never used
phpBB for my own stuff (basically cause I haven't released any software that's become popular), but
I've seen it around.  Did you release your changes to the phpBB forum's forum?

2) Have you considered releasing your myPhoto code as open source?  I have started to do that for
all my code, using either GPL or Perl license or freeware.  Haven't used any of the Creative Commons
licenses for code, but for my other writings.

3) How long do you think it should take for the preference pane to search for libraries?  It's still
not done yet, and it started before I started this email, including all the stuff before the
following period.  I don't hear the HD running, and I'm pretty sure the initial install I mentioned
yesterday didn't take this long to find the library (located in the normal location I believe):
~/Pictures/iPhoto Library

When I first opened the pane, it didn't show any libraries, so I clicked Find all (on the right hand
side) and it found nothing.

IMPORTANT (AND HAPPY) UPDATE!!

Cancel question 3 above!  I just realized I should probably try clicking Find all sites (on the left
hand side) as well, and it found everything instantly!!

Before finding myPhoto, I decided to write my own using Xtools and Cocoa, which I imagine you've
used for myPhoto.  I got started with the tutorial
(http://robnugen.com/journal.pl?type=all&date=2008/01/10#cocoa), but didn't get very far.

4) Is the problem with the intel preference pane just due to the RHS button not being associated
with the same code as the LHS button?

If you send me an updated preference pane, I think I can make and reply with a DMG that includes it
(unless we need to keep the old version as well, in which case the background image should be
changed a bit to indicate the differences between the versions).  Or release two versions of the
DMG.

But I haven't clicked the iPhoto Assistant button yet. If it works, ... man.. I don't know what I'll do.

3:41am JST Saturday 12 January 2008 (day 13807)

5) OMG can I have your babies?????  It's working!!!!!

Okay okay okay...  it's 3:51am here in Tokyo; I'm going to send this email and email you again later
once I can think a bit more clearly.  I have found some issues (so you can just cancel that offer to
have your babies), but I am reallllly impressed with what you've got; I'll definitely be pimping myPhoto!

http://robnugen.com/journal.pl?type=all&date=2008/01/11#myPhoto

Cheers and thanks
    - Rob!

zzzz remix.nin.com

6:50am JST Saturday 12 January 2008 (day 13807)

I've just been snoozing / meditating / dreaming while listening to remix.nin.com.

I finally decided I should sleep, so I looked for a way to turn the device OFF. I found what I thought was the switch and clicked it, and the animations stopped, but the music kept playing. Then I realized the device I had ws actually two units connected by a simple sliding together interface. One was the portable music player (actually about the size of a CD Walkman, and the other was the connection to the internet. Holy moly! That is so cool!! I looked at how the inteface worked; as I pressed the units together, two phone wires would extend out from the player side and connect with the internet connection side of the device. The inteface was actually quite complex to do all that, but worked flawlessly each time.

I realized a bit later that in a different reality, I was still able to hear the music because I was listening to it on "headphones." They connect with a simple connector (not as cool, but equally flawless in operation) to my internet side, a "laptop." The only bad thing about this system is that the headphones don't download the music. I call dibs on this idea!!! I'll email it to myself and see if that works as a patent protection.

But that's not why I'm writing. remix.nin.com is really sweet. I think this kind of mass collaboration has a definite place in the evolvernet. I call dibs on this word!!!