Let me take this opportunity to remind everyone never to websurf or save any kind of personal data on your corporate PC or on a PC you use to make presentations. At work, like many of you I sit through many meetings and most of the time someone has their laptop connected to the projector with everyone watching. Often, when they type a URL in the browser the auto complete displays their browsing history and you can see what websites they’ve been visiting. There’s always some surprises hidden in that browser history and while I don’t surf any kind of non work related sites on my corporate PC at work, I still set it to never save history.
Also I never keep any kind of personal image file on the hard drive no matter how benign. You know how in windows if you open up an image attached to a mail and then hit the next button in the image viewer, you get to see what images are in that temporary folder with contains all those mysterious attachments people forget about until they appear on screen for everyone to see. I’ve heard stories about people giving presentations and accidentally pulling up their sex photos and videos and what not. Be careful, else you may end up knowing how Edison Chen feels. Poor Guy..
Unrelated, I’m still looking for an alternative way of displaying images on the blog. I don’t think that Flickr is going to work cause I just don’t like the sizes that I’m limited too. If anyone knows of a good wordpress plugin that will let me batch upload a bunch of photos and specify the thumbnail size differently every time, please let me know what it is.
the problem with having your server do the thumbnails is that whatever process GD or Imagemagick uses to resize photos, it always end up looking like crap, with artifacts and aliasing
Flickr might restrict you to its own specific sizes, but at least their thumbs look nice and crisp
Agree about GD but when I was using movabletype all my thumbnails were generated by Imagemagick and I thought they were good enough.
true, I forgot Imagemacick was actually ok with resizing if using the right options
however, I’ve never heard of any plugin that would do what you want, and a quick google search didn’t turn up anything interesting
I think you’re going to have to play around with Automator to do this, which is probably better than coding up such a plugin from scratch
I swear I have coming here on and off since Nov last year to see if you have come out of hiding to post new entries. I’ve been seeing that GR post until today. There have been quite a number of posts since January….have I been in some kind of a blog warp or what?
Great to see you posting again.
P/S Dun think Edison was in much deep shit. Many guys must be secreting harbouring fantasies of being in his shoes pre-scandal, anyway, he’s got new roles in Hollywood apparently.
I was writing some posts throughout January on this new site but I didn’t make it live until a few days ago so you wouldn’t have seen them anyways. Nice to hear from you by the way!