Monthly Archives: August 2008

Blog by mail successful!

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The main reason I wanted to get it set up was so I could email photos to the blog from my phone.  The default WordPress email handler, however, doesn’t play well attachments; it expects plain-text posts.  Lucky for me, there’s a plugin called Postmaster that solves the problem very nicely.  It handles pictures and videos in emails that are sent to the blog-by-mail address, and embeds ‘em into new posts.  It even resizes pictures (retaining their aspect ratios) and auto-links them to the originals, and supposedly puts the videos into an embed tag that contains a quicktime player.  It looks like it might be ActiveX-based, though, so I might need to test that out and find a linux-based solution if appropriate.

Anyway, due to this new improvement, I may be posting a lot more in the future, if only because it’s a lot easier now.  Although I do dislike how long it takes to email a full-resolution photo from my BlackBerry over the EDGE network.  But I’m not about to shell out 600 bucks for a new phone with 3G, so I’ll just have to deal with it.

New Notebooks

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The hardest part of starting to write in a new notebook is actually making the first mark on the first page.  I find it difficult to come up with something “good enough” or “witty enough” or “befitting the purpose of the book”.  Hopefully, I’ll change that with these stack of Cahiers.  They’re small and relatively inexpensive (more an upscale notepad than anything else), so I won’t feel too bad about using it for anything I’d like, as opposed to the hard-bound Moleskine notebooks that I carry around in my bag, which I’ve yet to fill even a third of the way out of a desire to make sure that what I write is “worth it”.

 
So this time, I decided “to hell with it,” grabbed a Sharpie®, and put some helpful graffiti on the first page of one of ‘em.  Let’s see if this actually does the trick, and I use this one-blank book for the purpose for which it was created: to write things in.

Biscuits!

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I made some biscuits this morning, partly because I’d posted a comment over at my friend Katelyn’s blog little woman, but mostly because I just wanted some biscuits with breakfast.  They turned out OK, although I’d have liked for ‘em to be a little more brown on the tops.  Ah, well.  ”Read More” for the recipe.

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