Everything (as of right) now
Monday is here already. Successfully avoided doing much computer work (ie: client work) over the week-end, though I watched a really great CSS tutorial, the first three episodes in my iTunes — on converting a Photoshop layout to a clean and semantic site, and have downloaded all: this is way cool and the presentation is clear and the material incredibly useful.
Noted for later: read this interview of Patrick McGrath (I’ve enjoyed “The Grotesque”) and … yes: most interesting. Ah: “Trauma” is his eighth novel; I must investigate.
Have tucked this site on soil fertility and what happens when your N P K is out of balance into my WebNoteHappy (URL-keeping app). Quite informative. With the arid climate, I wonder about potassium… Mmm. More thought required.
A passel of image gallery scripts have caught my eye and I have places for most of them: list, prioritize, execute, move on.
This is a beautiful Flash example: wherein I would actually get into Flash.
Highslide: The original (beautiful!), a useful forum thread, and a Highslide version of Imageflow …. the orig. ImageFlow.
And, of course the SlideShowPro: I want to use that copy of Director I bought but didn’t use for another project.
And the apex: trying to figure how I will buy groceries (ah, an aside: of course I’ll probably be living on yoghurt for the next two weeks) .. but I got my first digital lens. I got a digital body a couple of years ago but had been using my old film-body lenses but my eyes are getting tired/old/flakey and I was having consistent trouble discerning focus on narrow depth of field items (which I like to shoot). It was really depressing and I’d cut way back on taking photos. The impetus for the purchase was the upcoming photo shoot of M’s artwork (and yes, last year the shots were a bit blurry). This years’ need to go into a book and they’re line and ink so clarity is a must.
So I shopped a bit, then went to Idaho Camera and after looking at some choices picked up this one as the best all-’round: the Promaster 18-200 digital XR EDO Auto Focus Zoom for my Pentax *istD.
So, of course I had to take a lot of shots, some of which I’ve uploaded to Flickr.
