Goals for 2019

  1. Restart this blog (March 2019)
  2. Fix car in garage (May 2019)
  3. Get Married (June 2019)

I’ll stop at these three for now and not in priority, but seriously, I have a goal list in my head. 2019 is already 3+ months old, and one huge goal has been working on a going through boxes (real and not so real) of items that have been literally sitting in for years untouched.

It was great to re-visit old memories, and even better to organize the ones I wanted to keep and get rid of other that do not “…does this spark joy?” as Marie Kondo would say. (i’m keeping Ephus the bunny..) I’ve definitely made a first pass and one of those “boxes” was also this web site.

So stay tune. Don’t be surprise if I add some old memories to this blog or split it into several ones. (Thinking along the lines of one blog for serious conversation about technology, Information science, etc. and fun quirky things and rambling thoughts.)

Also, it’ll be even more memorable to see this post years later buried in the middle. I hope it will spark joy!

Presidential Candidates and MySpace.com

Wow….

Who would have ever thought that presidental candidates would have myspace.com profiles

Hillary Clinton
http://www.myspace.com/hillaryclinton

Joe Biden
http://www.myspace.com/bidenforpresident

John Edwards
http://www.myspace.com/johnedwards

John McCain
http://www.myspace.com/johnmccain

Dennis Kucinich
http://www.myspace.com/denniskucinich

Ron Paul
http://www.myspace.com/ronpaul2008

Mitt Romney
http://www.myspace.com/mittromney

Barack Obama
http://www.myspace.com/barackobama

Duncan Hunter
http://www.myspace.com/duncanhunter

Rudy Giuliani
http://www.myspace.com/joinrudy2008

Chris Dodd
http://www.myspace.com/senatordodd

Posted by John Sterni at 11:06:10 PM in Other (138) | Comments (0)

I am such a Digg fan

Since I am going to forget to check these, out I’m posting them here to remind me at some point.

http://web-graphics.com/mtarchive/001717.php

http://boxover.swazz.org/

http://www.masugadesign.com/the-lab/scripts/unobtrusive-ajax-star-rating-bar/

http://komodomedia.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/20/css-star-rating-redux/

http://www.dustindiaz.com/ajax-contact-form/

http://alistapart.com/articles/prettyaccessibleforms

http://www.flog.co.nz/lab/ARC/ARC.htm

http://novemberborn.net/sifr3/beta1

http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/revised-image-replacement/

http://www.spiffycorners.com/

http://www.willmayo.com/2007/02/10/css-speech-bubbles/

http://www.schillmania.com/content/projects/even-more-rounded-corners/

http://www.terrill.ca/design/vertical_bar_graphs/

http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/bargraph/demo.html

http://mondaybynoon.com/2006/03/27/suckerfish-hoverlightbox/

http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/

http://www.frankmanno.com/ideas/css-imagemap/

http://moneytreesystems.com/css/picpopup.html

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/

http://www.fiftyfoureleven.com/weblog/web-development/css/light-weight-css-tabs

http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2003/09/30/accessible_imagetab_rollovers.html

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Removing EXIF data

All I have to say is Jhead…http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/
Simple enough to use to remove EXIF data from your images…

Man, You’ll never know what is hidden in your images until you take a look around. (http://blogs.23.nu/disLEXia/stories/5751

Actually my reason for removing the EXIF data is that it  was it was totally messing with the image re-sizer in my picture gallery. I was going a little nuts for a few hours trying to figure out what the heck was going on. Anyways, after pouring over the Internet, I found out what it was.. I guess Microsoft’s fancy GetThumbnailImage() method will use the thumbnail if present, but have not idea how to tell it NOT to use it so I just decided for goodness sakes and for security to remove all the data so I don’t also have to worries about transmitting GPS data along with my silly pictures!

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Image Gallery / Image resizing

As my work continues on updating my old website, I have been playing with image upload and image galleries. The #1 thing that I was interested in was a automatic image resizing utility for IIS/ASP (yeah I know PHP graphic libraries are a no brainer,  but I am ASP guy). Another feature is builting the gallery from the images directly and not having to depend on a database table for it.. I am a BIG fan of just dropping files into a folder and a server “smart” emough to figure out what the heck is going on ….

Anyways after some long investigation I stumbled upon some nice built-in utilities using ASP.NET and some work from The Code Project and from betaparticle. Best $20 bucks I’ve spent on a something in a long time, Thanks Matt.

I think I will have a semi decent image gallery for free. Not that I am not a flickr fan, just as a webmaster I should be able to do all this on my own.

Now if I can add some fancy AJAX (web 2.0) so I can move images around that would be cool… (Yes I am working on that…)

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/Thumbnail_Image.asp?print=true

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