Archive for May 16th, 2003

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better piccies

In Uncategorized on May 16, 2003

i’m going through all my photo albums and converting them to use the photopal script – it doesn’t do everything i’d like but it’s a lot closer to what i’d like than anything i feel like writing myself at the moment.

a couple of things i’d like to add on to it are the ability to set the date of albums and photos off something other than the file dates. when i download pics from my camera and to my web server they always get new dates and i’ve still got another 50 odd albums to go through and ‘touch -t’ to the right dates. that probably wouldn’t be a major annoyance if i didn’t have such a quantity of albums to jiggle with. and the other thing is i’d like an easy way to add long descriptions to photos as well as short titles. though i’ve not even added any short titles yet. and i might prefer to do long descriptions that fit in with the spiralling mass of code that runs the rest of this site.

anyway, now i like the look of things more i’m planning to sort my scotland photos from a couple of weeks ago out soon and post them.

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A Perfect Match by Jill McGown

In books read on May 16, 2003

Small, but pretty well formed. I liked the look of a couple of the later books in the Lloyd & Hill series but received advice that the character development was such that it was a series worth making the effort to read in order so I've started at the first book.

There's a good plot, nothing too deep or complicated, just enough complexity for a two hundred page book in fact. You don't feel like things are being dragged out or too much is being squeezed into the last few pages. I like both the main police characters and am looking forward to seeing where McGown takes then. All in all a good start to a series.

Purchased on 8th May 2003.