miahz's digital quality

WordPress Chokes On “Web 2.0″

Jeremiah — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:15:56 +0000

Ironically, WordPress’ Texturize filter chokes when the phrase “web 2.0″ is quoted. Texturize automatically makes semantically-correct curly quotes and other punctuational fixes to regularly typed text. Normally that’s great for people like me who care about stuff like that. But when a quoted phrase ends in a number, it turns the closing quote into a double-prime character as if it were a count of seconds or inches.

I noticed this a few minutes ago when writing my previous post.

To complete the irony, i have to use a hack to get WordPress to correctly display the closing curly quote on the phrase “Web 2.0”—exploiting its behavior to turn two apostrophes into a right double quotation mark.

Timbaland Is Music’s Web 2.0

Jeremiah — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:26:24 +0000

Is Timbaland the “Web 2.0″ of the music industry?

Doodled Charts

Jeremiah — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:49:11 +0000

Diggin’ these “hand-drawn” charts at NowTorrents.

#5 For “Murdered Out” On Google

Jeremiah — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:19:17 +0000

My photo on Flickr of a flat black murdered-out Beetle i saw in DC is currently in the #5 spot when you Google “murdered out.”

It was at the top of my Flickr stats, and half the links came from Google. So i image searched for “murdered out” figuring it might show up there. But it didn’t. Then i clicked over to the regular Google results page, and was surprised to see it right there on the first page.

The Beetle didn’t have tinted windows as the Urban Dictionary definition explains, but neither did the Harley next to it. Check out the rest of my Murdered Out set on Flickr.

Props to Rob & Big for bringing the term “murdered out” into our lives.

Randy Pausch On Time Management

Jeremiah — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:35:28 +0000

~~Find~~ Make 80 minutes to watch Randy Pausch’s lecture on time management. He declares time is the only commodity that matters. I’d say it’s worth a little over an hour to listen to his advice. Some of it is academic- and office-related, but the concepts can be applied elsewhere.

"Time Management" by Randy Pausch, November 2007 [via Lifehacker].

Almost everyone i know suffers from “time famine”—i’m terrible at managing my own time and not having enough of it to do what i want and need to do every day. And i’m never going to get back that wasted time; the only thing i can do is make better use of my time going forward. The professor covers all kinds of time management tips, providing plenty of great stories, statistics, and examples. Jump to 12:00 past the introductions right to the speaker.

Legendary Ending

Jeremiah — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:53:34 +0000

FirstShowing.net explains why Robert Neville in I Am Legend was legendary: he was the last man on Earth and he hunted vampires. Put yourself in the vampires’ shoes and he is the antagonist—the myth, the legend. I never thought of it that way. The included clip of the alternate original comes closer to illustrating the concept. I’m more interested in reading the book now—the film’s theatrical release didn’t portray that concept flip. Or if it did, i didn’t get it.

Unexpectedr

Jeremiah — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:14:29 +0000

Flickr now does video [via Lifehacker]. I hadn’t even heard of this. Their unique twist on video hosting is a 90-second limit. I like the player interface. Very clean, borderless, with overlay controls that disappear; like Vimeo.

Lucky Shot

Jeremiah — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:29:09 +0000

I like to think I am in control of my luck as I always have a camera at the ready to capture the luck!

David Oliver, on Luminous Landscape, April 2008

Would You Comply?

Jeremiah — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:41:19 +0000

A Secret Service officer told a man to delete a photo he had taken that included a security checkpoint at the National’s home opener on Sunday. President George W. Bush was there to throw the first pitch [via Crave].

Quick Look Full Screen Shortcut

Jeremiah — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:07:50 +0000

Handy shortcut for Leopard’s odd-behaving Quick Look feature.

Command-Option-Y will Quick Look files directly in full screen. Great for viewing images (takes a sec to load).
Esc goes up a folder while in full screen. To exit from the keyboard, hit Command-Option-Y again.
If you Alt-Tab to another program, then Alt-Tab back to Full Screen, you’ll be able to arrow to the adjacent files in the folder. Not sure why you can’t just jump files to begin with. Again, it’s slow to load the previews, but once they’re loaded, arrowing back and forth is pretty quick.

Still looking for a snappy full-screen image viewer like ACDSee 3.1 i use on Windows - preferably something free.