Jeremey's Weblog

Telecaster Gallery

http://homepage.mac.com/jeremeybarrett/tele_apr26_bw/

A Government Of, By, and For... Whom?

Another wonderful Republican legislator from Texas: http://techdirt.com/articles/20060425/0819237.shtml

Government Worldview 101: "If we don't make more laws that restrict more freedoms, uhh... uhhh... what would we do, again?"

Beautiful Vista

This is beautiful: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/04/microsoft_vista.html

Granted, Vista is beta, but still... this isn't the sort of thing you iron out at the last second.

Black and White Gallery

http://homepage.mac.com/jeremeybarrett/rachel_apr13_bw/

Silhouette

Well, almost.

Rachel Gallery

So I finally finished a gallery I'm happy with from Rachel's shoot a couple weeks ago. Here 'tis... requires Flash:

http://homepage.mac.com/jeremeybarrett/rachel_mar27/

SimpleViewer Export for iView MediaPro

I really like SimpleViewer for web galleries. It's slick, it doesn't mangle my images, and it provides a controlled way to view them. My main problem is producing the required XML file and the thumbnails and all. Since I use iView MediaPro (3.x), it would be really great to be able to do a one-click export to SimpleViewer... aaahhh... well I did it, almost.

iView supports HTML templates, which are really nice, but they're a bit inflexible. So I created a SimpleViewer template where index.html, the index file iView wants to work from, is really imageData.xml, or at least it will be once we rename it after iView does its thing. Then the problem is that you need to include the SimpleViewer flash file and some other stuff in the same directory, and iView strips anything it doesn't know about. But, it does bring over a folder called "assets" unchanged. So now with my template, you can export to SimpleViewer and then do a quick manual fix, which consists of:

1. Rename index.html to imageData.xml
2. Move everything in the assets folder one level up

That's it. You may want to edit index.html after all of this, since it will be a generic SimpleViewer version and might need titles and such.

Anyway... not ideal, I've sent a suggestion about making all of this configureable to the iView folks, but not bad. Here's the template (it's a zip file):

SimpleViewer-ivmp.zip

Oh, this requires iView MediaPro 3.x.

Texas Windmill

Larger version

Cappuccino, Croissant, Apple

Apple is building a new store right next to one of my favorite French bakeries and cappuccino spots, Bread and Chocolate, on King St. in Alexandria, VA (my home town). Woohoo!