Reel Expression

One of the oddest things to find out about myself is that I’m way behind the times on certain tech things. In all honesty, it’s really when it comes to social networking. I joined facebook recently after an old college friend invited me after a long while of “not having enough time to care” about Facebook. Granted, FB - or StalkerBook as I like to call it - was very helpful during my 2 month holiday in the States in finding people I’d lost phone numbers for.

This week I started using twitter only because I can *sometimes* use it on my IPT - thats iPod Touch in case you were curious. Every other time I’ve seen twitter on other’s screens - usually iphones - it makes no sense at all.

Today I’ve been writing the long upcoming posts about what to look for when buying poses. I checked out the fashion feed and saw that Phoenix Chapman had blogged about Plurk. Me, being easily distracted while writing, decided to join. I wonder if I can get it on the IPT when the damn thing decides to connect to my home wireless network again.

When is enough really enough? I blog as much as I can and usually only when I have something to say. Well, sometimes. But usually I have a lot to type when I get around to it. Microblogging just seems a bit… off. Who cares if I’m eating cheetos that I just imported in from the states? (I’m not btw). Or that I’m sad that I ran out of sunflower seeds? (Haven’t yet since I brought 5 large bags of them back with me and even I can’t get through all of that in less then a week.)

Will joining these things make people like me now? Do I even care?

*update* Bloody hell! Plurk is far more addicting then twitter and FB combined.

Dig it kats n kittens: I’m leaving for SLCC in Tampa tomorrow morning. I’ll be back on Monday night and I may write up something about it. Or I may not if I just spend the entire time drunk like last year.

So there will be no new products until next week. I have them made, but didn’t have time to do the ads since I’ve only been in Lincoln for 2 days after visiting the nieces and nephew during the long weekend.

During the recent weeks since SL doesn’t agree with this laptop, I’ve been working on my website. I got everything I had planned to get done and have still a lot of tutorials to write. But if I have to write another word on writing screenplays, this bloody laptop might end up in the pool.

reelgeek.co.uk

I’ve also been prattling on about doing a machinima review blog with Alle. Well… that one is up too! Ok, no reviews yet, but Alle has been busy with RL work. Soon though! If any of you out there makes machinima in SL and would like to submit for a review, there is information on the site for you.

Machinima Paradiso

Cheers!
Luth

Can anyone tell me when the blog started not working with internet explorer? I use firefox and I haven’t looked at it in IE for a while. If I know when it all went to shit maybe I can figure out how to fix it.

Update:
Ok… I fixed it enough so the sidebars and footer show correctly but the background and header isn’t working still. At least its readable now :) I’m still working on it.

Cheers
Luth

Sorry for the mess today. I’ve been working on getting a slide show of my newest releases on the sidebar and been knee deep in code. Sadly the only way I can preview it is to actually update the blog with it.

I searched all over trying to find a type of slide show that worked. The one I was working on prior to finding the current version, was embedding the flickr slide show itself. In case you are wondering, you can find the code here. I really liked that one because then I could just point it to a specific set in flickr and it’ll update automatically. The only problem was that it didn’t resize the text, repeat or show the titles. Luckily, I found a little gem called pictobrowser that pulls all the images off a the specific flickr set and you can set the background.

It doesn’t automatically run through all the images, which wasn’t what I was looking for in the first place. However there are bonuses to that because it takes less time to load and the person looking at them defines how fast they go. I found that you can click on the large image itself for the easiest way of scrolling through them.

Along with the side bar of recent releases, I also set up a full products page which has a lager version set up by categories of: Pose Sets, Couples Poses, AOs and Furniture. And because I am anal retentive, the pictures run from newest -> oldest.

Plus I removed the general photos page. Partially because it is redundant but mostly because I don’t understand CSS (or at least the way the templates use it) enough to get it to work with the blog. I mostly got the plugin to insert the ad images from flickr easier, and that does work very well. But the way the templates and stylesheet works for the photo album isn’t even remotely close to anything I’ve ever seen. The instructions left out a number of key steps some I found and others I can’t.

The only problem is is that the pictures in the posts don’t link to anything anymore. The old ones that is. New ones will go to flickr. I have 123 posts, most of them with some sort of picture and I don’t know when I’ll be able to fix that. So sorry!

Usually when editing the blog template, I check to see how it looks on my 19” monitor and 15” laptop. However, I don’t have them here with me now. If you see anything unusual going on, please let me know.

Cheers
Luth