It’s a leap year folks. That’s right, just when you thought that weird function IsLeapYear() would never come in handy, here we are at the end or beginning of another four year mark. Somebody out there is only now finally able to celebrate a long awaited birthday.. somebody.

Getting on with it, I have been seriously contemplating purchayzing a DSLR camera for the last little while now. I know that when Dave bought his, I was a little bit skeptical about whether it was worth the money, or if I’d even care to take stylized pictures.

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For those of you who know the song by Jason Mraz called Sleep All Day, you know how that song is nice and relaxing to listen to? Yah, well sleeping all day is nice too. Today I slept in till 2pm, which isn’t out of character for me, but taken into the context of the past week, it’s nonsesicle (read: like this word).

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I would imagine there would be fire, knives and a lot of wise ass comments thrown into the mix. Well, I suppose if I really wanted to know, I could just go to what.iflukescouldkill.com and find out haha.

Happy Birthday homeslice. You’ve joined the quarter century club where one’s judgment is clouded and thoughts like “Put your hand into the fan” don’t seem like such bad ideas.

Awesome! Today I spent a buttload of time trying to protect the images I’ve uploaded by sticking a watermark on them. Sure, NextGEN Gallery allows me to have watermarks but when it saves, it completely obliterates the exif meta data (holy tongue twister) which sucks because I plan to integrate the exif data viewer that came with NextGEN soon.

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So it’s been brought to my attention that I’m an asshole. Photoshop does do the following with this File > Automate > Fit Image function. Oh well, i still think the below is useful, but not for pure resizing. Colour me bad.. really bad.

Anyhow, I’m sure you all know about Photoshop Batches, and how shit they can be.. you know the fact that you can’t add any kind of conditional statement at all. For example: If it’s a landscape edit the width -> else it’s a potrait so resize the height. This is basically my issue because it wrecks my desired file sizes for my final output files for my galleries that I’ve been oh so diligently filling out. I googled around and found out that image ready has such conditional support; however, I couldn’t figure out for the life of me how to do a batch after I made the Droplet. That’s a mouthful.

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Since I know you’re all interested in the stupid details, I’ll take the liberty to detail some on-going changes with my site. I’ve just added some photos and integrated it with the NextGen Gallery and I must say I am thoroughly impressed. It offers a lot of cool features such as:

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So today, well “yesterday” if you want to be an asshole, I had to go in to work. Afterwards, Ann, Helena and I went to get shanked for dinner in the skeezy part of Vancouver: Chinatown. Just kidding, it’s not that sketchy, you just can’t cross the imaginary line between good and evil that runs through that area.

Restaurant Name: Phnom Penh
Address: 244 East Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Tel: 604-582-5777, 604-734-8898 Why do they have two?
Style: Cambodian and Vietnamese

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It’s alive!

After letting dot-squad go defunct from about mid 2007 and constantly making fake plans to revamp it, i gave up because i could never force myself to make the time to do it. Enter wonderful WordPress. After Andy and Ann set theirs up with ease, i got off my high-horse and just installed the thing instead of trying to re-make my own again. The only problem is now I’ve “lost” my old posts for the time being. I could always port them over but that takes time, and time is precious.

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