Ok, so hopefully nobody even ran into a problem with this, but I let my hosting run an upgrade script on gallery last night.
Gallery is the program I use to manage the pictures linked from the blog etc.
It looks like all the linked pictures are now broken /sigh
I fixed the newest linked picture, and well… we shall see if I get the others fixed in a timely manner 🙂
-Jordan
The backup seems to have worked at least!
Remind me not to tear into a project like that without doing more research…. oh well maybe I can figure it out eventually.
-Jordan
Yeah, so the upgrade didn’t go so well…
As it stands right now the gallery isn’t working at all.
I am going to try and restore from backups but the file system on the server is a mess right now.
Just thought you might be interested, or perhaps you tried to click on a picture link and got nowhere.
-Jordan
Heather and I made it back from Florida!
In the next day or two I hope to get a nice summary post up, but I am still recovering from the trip.
This post is mainly just to say I don’t see any hope of getting the gallery hosted on this site ordered properly in a timely manner. Having admitted that fact, I just pushed the entire Picasa gallery online, neatly side-stepping the entire issue.
The gallery can be found here
I plan to have a link to those off the main site in a day or so too.
For people wishing to order prints, I hope to get a handful of the best pictures from the wedding hosted here, in their full resolution glory, for that purpose. In the meantime, I can always e-mail them out if somebody knows what they want.
-Jordan
Not too much to post about today, but I wanted to observe that, according to site-meter, there have been over 1000 visitors to heatherandjordan.com!
given the number of ways browsers can be hidden from sitemeeter, its not a hugely meaningful number, but interesting none the less.
also, Heather and I got the picture DVDs burned over the weekend. Now we just have to figure out a way to mail them safely. I also uploaded the entire CD worth of pictures to the website, but as I feared the order is a colossal mess, and we are still trying to decide what to do. Plan A would be to re-order the pictures in the gallery, plan B is to cull the album down to a handful of our favorites so they aren’t so painful to sort.
I will keep you posted 🙂
-Jordan
Ok, so its going to be a short list… But I am still excited about it.
Over the weekend, Heather got the finishing touches on the picture CD that has been in production for months now! We still have to burn copies, but having the pictures all together, edited and in order is a huge step. I hope to upload them to this website soon, but may end up settling for a Picasa web album as I know Gallery is going to mess up the order of the pictures. I don’t really relish the thought of fixing the order one-by-one in their clunky web interface when there are over 500 pictures in the album.
The second item is my car loan! Its an amazing feeling to be done paying that off. Heather and I were planning to aggressively work on that loan, as per the Dave Ramsey school of thought, but we were afraid it would take much longer to actually knock anything out. We are very grateful for the generous gifts people gave us for the wedding, allowing us to get a huge head start on that.
-Jordan
I have been looking into all kinds of data synchronization tools as of late. My primary goal has been to ensure downloading a camera onto one computer in the house would result in the pictures being available to the other computers.
In my looking around I found Live Mesh Not really the tool I was looking for, because it keeps a copy of the files on an online server. I am really excited about using Mesh to keep a folder synced between my work machine and home for keeping notes handy, getting pictures where I can grab them for blog posts, etc.
Back to the home network, my primary tool is SyncToy. It’s not the most user-friendly tool, so I don’t think Heather will adopt it as something she manually uses, but I have been able to schedule sync jobs from my machine. I hope to have Heather’s Vista laptop doing the same soon. There is a rather large side project involved, where I get to manually merge two huge photo collections before I can actually turn this thing loose with live data.
I turned WinRar loose on Heather’s primary picture collection (there is another one of pre-college pictures), and after a little over an hour of compressing, the .rar was roughly six gigs. That’s just the backup in case something horrible happens when I start merging pictures later this week…
Once that is all up and running, I think there are some cool Windows Home Server plugins that would do web-albums with a lot less hassle than what I am running on this website. I will have to look into that. Not to say its really hard to use Gallery… no I take that back… I don’t find it hard, Heather always gives up because it takes a lot of fiddling with things to make it play nice when you are setting things up or adding pictures. Here’s hoping the WHS plugin will be nicer 🙂
-Jordan
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