Yes, I cracked and moved to Flickr. If you hadn’t noticed, Gallery broke AGAIN! This time was the the incident that pushed me over the edge. Having been a software developer, I know it isn’t that hard to write software that doesn’t corrupt the database every 6-months without fail. I’m not quite sure why Gallery can’t get it right.

Anyways, update your bookmarks/feeds to point to Flickr. I have updated my sidebar to pull the feed from Flickr now. Watch for me to re-upload a lot of content to Flickr over the next few days. I’m also having fun with the geo location features so check that out too.

There are three (1, 2, 3) myspace profiles which are hotlinking directly to a picture on my domain for use as their background. This seems to be the result of Google returning a 3D render from my site as the first result for “tropicalsunset.” I don’t know why but the hotlinking bothers me… It shouldn’t since I have so much bandwidth, but it does.

I’m debating replacing the image with the Goatse.cx picture and plastering the following text over top of it: Don’t hotlink, and have a nice day. It might be a little much though.

I’ve noticed that no one is looking at the quick links I had on my sidebar. These tend to be updated everyday with whatever random stuff I come across. I’ve moved the quick links ot the top of my page to make sure people see them. There’s also a RSS feed.

I was going through my site stats and found a huge referer to my site, this guy.

Notice the background? Yeah, it’s a 3D picture I made about 4 years ago. I forgot that I had an old set of images sitting on my webserver, not that I mind keeping them there.

I just thought I’d mention it so everyone still knows that this blog is alive.

Here are links to the other images I made around the same time:

http://www.tunerds.com/images/tropicalSunset.jpg

http://www.tunerds.com/images/ImpendingImpact.jpg

http://www.tunerds.com/images/unnamed.jpg

http://www.tunerds.com/images/SnowDay.png

http://www.tunerds.com/images/xmas.png

Today we got a big huge Enron sized shredder at work. I just found it funny that investor swindling is the first thing that came to mind when I saw it.

In other news, my widget is up to #4. I just found a small bug though, should probably fix it soon.

Note: I have no actual knowledge that my company is swindling investors. I’m just stating that big shredders cause me to think of Enron.

For anyone who didn’t notice my little project on the side bar, I wrote a widget for OS X. The widget is an “illusion of the day” type thing. I frequent this site and the owner did a shout-out for some help. I wrote a widget that downloads his feed and displays the latest picture. Screenshot:

The coolest thing is that after finishing the widget on June 26th, it made it into Apple’s Top 50 (currently #16).

Yeah!

I’ve moved over to this blog. My old blog will still be online but I won’t be using it anymore. Basically the focus on this blog is integrating non-traditional blog content. If you look on the sidebar there are lots of feeds/other content that might interest you.

I’m pretty tired so I’m just going to pass out. Maybe I’ll set this up correctly later. Right now the basic framework is in place.