photoblogging:
photoblogging:
Photoblogging…
I just got a Sony Ericsson P800 smartphone/cellphone/cameraphone thing and it’s turning out to not be as useful as I had hoped for photoblogging. For some reason I was under the impression that easy-to-use and free photoblogging software existed for Symbian phones. Turns out that’s not the case. If you want to do photoblogging in a simple manner from your phone you need to either have a full-Internet GPRS service contract (an extra $20/mo through T-Mobile) or pay $.30 for each photo you want to post online. No thanks.
Since this phone has Bluetooth I thought there had to be an easy way to get the pictures off the phone and onto my blog. I looked and asked around, and apparently no such software exists.
So I wrote my own. It’s not complicated, it’s just a perl script that takes a jpg, resizes it, copies it to a special location on my webserver and then creates a blog entry for it. In case anyone else is interested in this script, I put it online here.
Now, whenever I want to photoblog a picture off my phone, I Bluetooth it to my Mac and then run this script. Setting up Bluetooth File Transfer to automatically accept files and stick them in ~/Documents/Bluetooth elimates a step. If it turns out I’m really using this a lot I’ll change the script to detect changes to the Bluetooth directory and automatically blog photos that appear in it.
Lazyweb idea: Anyone understand the Mac Bluetooth API? I’d rather have a standalone program that does this whenever it receives a jpg file.
photoblogging:
photoblogging:
NASA scientist: Bush wore a device during debate
Let’s all join hands and welcome our cyborg overlord.
The front page of GeorgeWBush.com currently says: “John Kerry: the raw deal. John Kerry does not a plan or a vision to fight and win the War on Terror, and he is resorting to a series of baseless attacks that been proven false.”
Hmm. Baseless attacks proven false? Does that remind you of anyone you know? 🙂 Hehehe…
Just got off the phone with my Dad, he had a great quote he said I could quote him on: “After this election, I’m never voting again… for a Yaley. I’d take Reagan, Carter… anyone over a Yale graduate.”
Are you pro-serif or sans-serif?
Such a tough choice! Where’s the Comic Sans candidate?
It never fails to amaze me that in a territory as heated as politics, graphic design does so little to make a difference. And we have nobody to blame but ourselves… Let me qualify. In the remote part of New England where we live, civilians pierce their lawns with red, white and blue posters advocating their candidate of choice. Like billboards, they are angled so that motorists can see them and — hard to imagine — be duly swayed once they enter the voting booth in November. And swayed by what, exactly? How about the fact that the Bush/Cheney posters offer the same patriotic color palette as the Kerry/Edwards posters? Why has no smart graphic designer come along to remedy this?
I just made SEQ541 a GPL program. Hopefully someone else will pick up the torch and add all the features to this program that I don’t have time to add! 🙂