Gallery2 is a photo hosting PHP package. You can use it to do such things as run your own version of photobucket or flickr. Unfortunately, all I could figure out to do with it is get frustrated and say bad things.
Since I like to isolate myself from quarrels with some big internet site over what’s good and what’s bad to post, and don’t want my own content mixed in with stuff I consider wrong and they don’t, hosting my own personal page led me to find a way to host my own photo management. I tried coppermine and Gallery2, and while Gallery2 is nicer on the surface, and loaded with options, most of the options are “don’t go there” options. Those are the options that sure, they allow you to edit them, but doing so results in catastrophic failure, and a need to reupload the package. ~40MB, not counting the time taken to pull down the pictures and put them back again. Furthermore, it spontaneously quits allowing the uploading of new files, and is not stable in what actions cause errors and what don’t.
So, Coppermine now gets another chance, and Gallery2 gets sacked.
A hospital in Barberton will validate your parking so you don’t have to pay to visit patients. I took a picture of the validation stamp with my cell phone, which for some reason was set on “sepia” and i didn’t realize it until today.
Yep, in big red letters it says “FREE PARKING – ASS.” Even assuming ASS was some sort of acronym, you think someone would have spotted that and added extra letters or something. It was far more obvious in person, probably because I see in color…
I’ve uploaded some pictures from my stay in Philadelphia: click here
I’ll probably get around to titling the pictures or giving little descriptions for each one someday.
The junk mail I get is apparently evolving into a more personal experience. Not that I’m a fan of this stuff, but I felt like the irony in this particular offer had to be shared. I was first a little surprised to find that my name was so big on the envelope.
I was absolutely shocked to see my name in the insert, ESPECIALLY the top right corner’s picture having my name rotated and placed accurately.
But then they went and did something stupid, and failed to address me by name on the letter. I just felt it was a little amusing, that’s all.
I’m baffled…when did “check my e-mail” begin to actually mean, “check my e-mail, do some homework, read all the news on MSN’s site, play a few rounds of an online game, and then check my e-mail again”? I’ve got to stop being nice when I’m in the computer lab and a student stops by to say they just want to check their e-mail!
There was once a site made by and maintained independently by Hiram students, and the site’s best feature was professor reviews. Unfortunately, that site has tanked and been remade as some sort of politically incorrect facebook. While political incorrectness doesn’t bother me, assinine stuff does. What I’m considering is creating a new site which will just be for professor reviews around the nation. Similar to facebook in that different colleges and universities would have their own subdomains, but it would be only about students giving their $.02 about the educators at their institutions.
I’ve got my very own website now, and I have to say it’s pretty cool (having the site, not the site itself). I’m still not sure what all I’ll be putting on here, but I’ll figure out as I go. It can be a work in progress.
