I've implemented the new tool (sort of) I spoke of in my last post in the anime image gallery. The only problem is that it sticks everything on one page, so if there are a lot of images, it takes a bit for it to load up the thumbnails. I'll have to fix that. For those curious as to what it looks like, click here for a preview. I"ll be sticking with the usual black background, but I need to create a CSS for the purpose.

Real soon now I'll be running something called uberthumb over the anime image gallery. Biggest problem I've had of late is that my tools - specifically, the perl script that generates the HTML tables for the gallery - don't do their job. They're fired.

The only foreseeable problem is that everything is just stuck onto one table. So if you have a gallery with 800 images, you're suddenly pulling down 800 thumbnails. =O.o= I gotta see if there's a way to fix that.

OK, so I started up this gallery thing. And it works on Northarc. And there was much rejoicing. (yay)

Now, I'm not going to replace the image archive with Gallery (ugh), rather I'm going to do the con and personal photo galleries in Gallery to make it more manageable for me. It doesn't really look like it'll be too much trouble, based on another project I'm working on over on my system.

In any event, the photo galleries will slowly migrate over to the Gallery setup I now have. Like last year's revamp, I'll keep "legacy" links up for people to continue linking. (BTW, if you link, make sure you update when the time comes - double recursives will slow things down big time.)

Anyway, stay tuned if you're so interested.

Gah, I've been deposed by a quizilla?! WTF!

In any case, I've just uploaded a few dozen images to the image gallery.

Also, somebody had sent me a message indicating where stuff in the unsorted directory are supposed to go. Owing to PEBKAC, it got deleted. Dammit.

A quick look on Google has revealed that the anime image gallery comes up as the first result on Google by searching for the terms 'anime images'.

Wow. =O.o=

Today I printed a letter to nine parties - my three congresscritters, Senator Orrin Hatch, The Governator, Dubya, McBride, Dept. of Homeland Security, and Al "I invented the internet" Gore. Why? Because McBride decided to write his congressman.

Say what you will about this, but this is one of those few things that I'm passionate about, and I'll be damned if I'm going to let some asshat in Utah try and undermine my right to choose what I want to run on my computer.

Mental note, don't moderate comments on a post and then comment on the post. I had forgotten I moderated....

Added more images to the gallery. Nothing terrible. Also did some sorting of the unsorted masses. Thanks to those again who do this on a regular basis - I forget who you are atm. (Sorry, having a senior moment. =^^=)

It's back. The directory was moved off of the raid, which seems to be flakey anyway.

The raid that the gallery sits on is going into conniptions and has been down the past couple of weeks. I don't know when it'll be back up, but they're trying to get it back up. Viewers of the gallery will meanwile be treated to a 403/Forbidden message. I'm working on getting the gallery posted elsewhere (thank God for backups), but it's up to the admins at Northarc.

For those who were looking for clues as to where it went, sorry about the delays in posting.

Chez Vrolet Secret Labs is online. Film at eleven.

No response yet per the update, but I sent a letter again. Many thanks to ESR for allowing me to send McBride a copy of the open letter along with it.

Hung up here is a letter to SCO, and my own thoughts of what's happening. To wit, the letter has been snail mailed to them.

Well, I did something stupid. I killed my old private keys. They're gone. Means I can't revoke my old public keys. As such, I've rolled new public keys. Get 'em while their hot. Look for the ones without a comment in them that says "(foo) Account".

Unfortunately, most of the cons for this year are scuttled. Kind of working on a budget to get this stuff rolling for next year. If we're lucky, we'll be making Animagic here in CA, but I'm not counting on it at this point. Odds are better we'll do another one of the Mile High bits.

In other news, added a handful of new images to the gallery. Enjoy.