A couple of Administrative Notes
August 28th, 2008I’m leaving on (another!) backpacking trip tomorrow and have a few administrative tasks I need to do upon my return:
1. The contact page is borked. Somehow I managed to delete part of it so emails won’t send. I’ll restore it/rewrite it soon. In the meantime, feel free to leave a comment here if you need to get in touch with me, or go via the ‘contact’ link in the Gallery.
2. I’ve disabled comments in the Gallery for now. I upgraded the software recently and the spam handling is, nicely put, less than optimal. I wrote a short script to kill off the spam comments, but I still have
to run it several times a day to keep up with the spambots, and that’s just not fun. Until I have time to get in there and make my own improvements I am disabling the comments. Old comments are still visible, it’s only new ones that can’t be added.
3. A couple of people have asked me where the header photo was taken. It’s the Mount Whitney ridgeline as seen from Guitar Lake (to the west of the peak).
Okay, enough of this computer mumbo-jumbo. I’m ready to hit the trail.
Yeah, I used Gallery for several years, and I eventually decided it was just a worthless steaming hot pile of scripting goop that attracts spammers like flies to, well, steaming hot piles of goop.
Recently, I switched over my photo gallery (colocalders.com/zenphoto/) to Zen Photo (zenphoto.org), which is a really nice bit of web software that can integrate nicely with most blogging platforms. I highly recommend it.
Oh, I love how your site is put together!
Thanks for the pointer to zenphoto. I have been mulling over a change (do I go to a hosted service? Or just a better self-run application?) and it feels kind of like a mid-life crisis. I’ve never been entirely happy with Gallery but it was the best option when I first implemented it. It was back when webshots was pretty much the only online photo hosting service and I just *hated* it. Figured I could do it better on my own webspace.
Figuring everything out will be a good fall project for that outdoors downtime between summer and winter.