Month: June 2005

Sprinkler

Sprinkler

While Maxim was sleeping I was entertaining myself with the sprinkler photography. I made 14 shots using all sorts of exposures. I was trying to catch the water drops, but failed. The sprinkler was in the shadow, but the leaves around it were brightly lit with the sun. I tried shooting with and without polarizer, with automatic and manual exposure, with exposure compensation, etc. Neither of 14 frames captured the sprinkler the way I wanted. I don’t know if it is at all possible, but if it is, I surely don’t know how. I have selected the single image and processed it a bit in Gimp to make it look better. Still, not what I wanted.

A couple of pigeons and a toilet dilemma are also in the album.

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-06-17_POTD

Rolling, rolling, rolling…

Maxim was getting ready for a roll for some time now. He could almost do it. He could lay on his side for minutes, trying and pushing, and trying and pushing againg. But he never did it from start to finish on the plain surface.

Few minutes ago I put him in to bed. He was half a sleep and I thought that he would fall asleep in a second. I went back to the living room and enjoyed the silence for a couple of minutes. Than I heard some strange sounds coming out of the bedroom. It was Maxim. He sounded like he was doing something. Something hard. I went back to check upon him and guess what I found…

Maxim was completely awake. He was laying on his belly with both of his legs between the wooden bars of his bed! And he was trying to crawl away. That part failed, of course, as neigher of his legs could push him away from anything.

So, today we mark an important milestone in Maxim’s development – rolling from back to front. Starting from today we’ll have to give him even more attention as he can roll-n-fall. But both Olga and I are very glad anyway. We’ve been waiting for this day a long time now.

Daily del.icio.us bookmarks

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2005-06-16

del.icio.us link dumps

I was thinking about the ways of integrating my Delicious bookmarks with my blog lately. I didn’t want to syncronize my bookmarks into WordPress links. And I didn’t want to create an RSS link list either. I had it before and it didn’t prove useful. Finally, I think the best way to integrate the two is in the form of daily link dumps, which will be regular posts featuring a list of bookmarks I made during the day. This way it will be simple, static, and automatic.

I didn’t have to spend a lot of time looking for (or, dare I to mention, write) the appropriate script. The one was available here. With small modifications I guess it will do the job.

Let me know if the dumps will get too annoying and I will switch them to private posts.

Update: You can get my version of the script by clicking on yadd.php. My changes are as follows:

  • Added WordPress post statut configuration variable. Originally, the script was publishing post. With the configuration variable it is easy to make script create drafts or private posts.
  • Integrated the patch by Zach Paine which prevents the creation of empty posts on those days when no links were posted to Delicious .
  • Made the Extended field to be only printed when it is non-empty.
  • Added optional tag linking. The variable $tag_link is about 10 lines below the rest of configuration because I didn’t bother to spend any more time on the script. Set the variable to 'yes' for the script to link tags. Otherwise it will leave them in plain text which was the original behavior.