This article has some good advise about arranging people for the shot. http://www.popphoto.com/how-to/2013/11/tips-pros-posing-subjects-group-portrait-photography
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Biking through Eugene with Becky
I am spending a wonderful day biking Eugene with Becky because the starter on our car won't function.
QR codes and business cards…
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So I am looking to redo my business card. I thought I might put a QR code on it. So I stopped by this site: http://goqr.me/. Lets see how it works out. I am a little concerned with claims made that vCard QR codes do not work with certain devices: http://qrlicious.com/2012/03/23/top-5-rules-for-qr-codes-on-business-cards/.
Complex vs. Prolific Systems
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From time to time I look at how various organizations evaluate and acquire new systems. This post is rather interesting comparing the acquisition of two complex systems by the Air Force.
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/75aee4a354bc
It is also interesting when comparing motorbikes in Nigeria and the US. The ones from/made in China are Prolific.
Zapier and WordPress
I found out today that the Zapier Service does not work with PODs Advanced Content Types, nor does it add content to custom fields in WordPress. - This service had so much potential...
I was hoping to use Zapier to move data from a Google Spreadsheet to PODs Advanced Content Type. It looks like I will have to rebuild the PODs Advanced Content Type as a Custom Post Type, or test out a plugin like:http://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsync/.
Images in the Free Culture Movement
I have been really encouraged by the availability of images which have been released under Creative Commons licenses.
While there are a lot of icon sets out there, here are some of my "go to" places.
- The first place I usually go for free icons isthenounproject.com. There is a growing community behind the endeavor and their management operations are being taken seriously.
- A second place which I have found helpful is: mapicons.nicolasmollet.com.
I have also found these images which are SVG for maps: http://map-icons.com/
As an archivist, I wonder where will these icons go if they are just privately hosted? - Is there an archive for these things?
Sled and Tobbogan Research
I research all sorts of things... but one area I do not do enough research in is fun - especially winter fun.
With the resent 5" (or theres about) of snow in Eugene I thought I would pull a memory or two out of my past and take a look online to see if I could find any pictures. I am particularly interested in sledding. This is sorta new. Let me explain. Growing up I learned to ski. It was an individualistic sport and did not require cooperation. In contrast to the atmosphere around skiing (at least my exposure to it), sledding is much more of a social enterprise. In database terms, in stead of a one-to-one relationship (skier to skies) it is a many-to-one relationship (people to sled). Give this past I think it might be time to revisit the sled in context of the social element and re-evaluate "sledding".
Last night some students in Becky's program and I got out to a local hill and went sledding. It was a blast. Even though I am the guy in the red jacket. (permissions on video no-longer work)
Meadowbrook Sectional Toboggan
It reminded me of a sled my dad had when I was in the third grade. It was an orange. Recent internet sluthing has shown that it was likely a Meadowbrook Sectional Toboggan. There is a patent for it in google. The only picture I could find on the Internet for the make/model is below.
Long Toboggan
Foldable in three sections.
In extended position
Excel, XML, and CSV
I never thought the day would come when I would say that I wished that I had a Windows version of MS Excel. I am simply aghast. But never-the-less I have been looking for an XML parsing solution for OS X and can not find one which is graphically oriented.
I want to move certain XML encoded content to my blog and the best way (that I can figure) to do this is to import CSV files (although there is a WordPress plugin for importing XML).
I want to be able to do this, but the Mac version of Excel does not do this:
I really want to drag and drop, but this tutorial makes it look easy-ish to do at the command line. http://blog.mclaughlinsoftware.com/oracle-sql-programming/how-to-convert-xml-to-csv-and-upload-into-oracle/
What am I Using this for? Well I would like to use it with itunes XML, Endnote XML, Bookpedia XML, BibTeXXML, SIL-OLAC data as XML, WorldCat Data as XML? Glotalogue data as XML.
Tutorials for ExifTool
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This looks awesome. I'll have to remember this for those situations where I am looking to embed metadata.
Learning to make Polygons in Google Earth
Today I am messing around and making KML and GPX files from our trip to Nigeria.
Reading: https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/kml_tut#polygons and http://projects.visualstudies.duke.edu/isismapping/sites/default/files/isisguides/earthguide.pdf.
Watching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGGpTqkbCWo
I hope to take some of our photos, a polygon of the language area, and our GPX route traces and overlay them on an Open Street Map page in WordPress.
The one thing I don't think is possible with GoogleEarth is to move polygons. I created them and then they were about a mile off, so I just wanted to move them... not possible. - to my knowledge.