irrelevancy

I didn’t realize ZenPhoto didn’t have any kind spam protection active by default. I have been getting these poetic spam comments. It was kind of cute at first, but I’m over it. Let’s see how Akismet does.

This blog has not been abandoned, but I understand how one would come to this conclusion. I’d give you some nonsense about how I’ve been too busy and could even provide some vague details that would solidify this assertion. It wouldn’t be the truth. There just hasn’t been much going on.

School certainly takes a lot of time and thought, but these last couple terms have been easy. Too easy. I get bored easily if there’s no challenge and a school whose curriculum was developed for the lowest common denominator constantly disappoints. The core classes are okay and get more exciting the higher I go, but the general education classes are such a joke.

I don’t know where I got derailed. I feel like I just can’t get my head together lately.

Miscellaneous news. I turned 26. It’s not a milestone, an even number, or an aesthetically-pleasing one. People even seem disappointed when they find out. I eagerly await the day that someone comes up with a good reason for having your birthday on Christmas.

I think this blog has been going for just over 3 years. On the plus side, I think I sound more sane. Negatively, not as much variety around here lately. I guess there hasn’t been much of anything lately. School, excuses, repeat.

I vowed last year to take more pictures. Utterly failed. I don’t think I even took a photo since that declaration. I love photography and I would love to snap all day, but I can’t get over this irrational fear of what people will think when they see me with a camera in my hand.

2009 is going to be a big year for me. A lot of changes are coming. It’s too early to expand on that in a coherent way. There’s much work to be done. I’m terrified.

Getting worse at keeping up with this. Fudging dates just to have at least once a month, I’m so neurotic. Couldn’t get into the administration page for a while, PHP error about memory. I hope fall lasts forever.

Ouch, you know it’s bad when you can’t remember the TLD of your own site. I’ve been busy, but not overwhelmingly so. I’ve just been so lazy the past school term. Students have been graduating and we’ve been losing valuable staff members, so it’s a little depressing.

I was excited about taking Linux Security, but I found it to be a little easy. I passed the class on the first day as the final grade depended upon getting root access to a test machine. I really think I need to get serious about getting ready for a career. Life can get too comfortable without advancement. I was stressing over writing a paper, but for no good reason. I do this every term: wait until the very last minute and make myself sick with anxiety in every previous moment. The paper earned a 100%. I need to have a little more faith in myself and just get it done!

I’ve been dying to see the new Batman movie, but I’ve been insisting on seeing it at the IMAX theater, which has proven to be very inconvenient. We drove all the way out there on Friday, but all the showings were sold out, so we caught The Mummy: Return of the Dragon Emperor Strikes Back or whatever. I can certainly understand the bad reviews. After Indy 4, I had enough of the father and son adventuring. I’ve seen parts of the first Mummy and I remember it being a little humorous, but this one was so contrived. I did like the style of the times (clothing, vehicles, etc), and I did enjoy the cinematography, particularly the gun fight during a light snowfall.

I wanted to put up some gallery software to make it easier to share pictures. After a cursory search, I found this Plogger, which was very nice. It was simple to use, but came with a couple tiny annoyances. First, an image goes into an album and an album goes into a collection. I just don’t need that level of organization and only seems to cause more clicks to get to the content. Also, I would have preferred to be able to password-protect certain albums or whatever and Plogger didn’t seem to offer any sort of that functionality.

Dear friend Minna mentioned that she had been using ZenPhoto for a project. It’s a small download and easy to set up, which only took me a couple minutes. It doesn’t use compulsory collections for organization, instead offering optional sub-albums, which I prefer. Also, it features protected albums.

You can find the (currently desolate) gallery here: Irrelevancy Web Gallery. I’ve resolved (I don’t think that’s the right word if I haven’t actually started doing it by now) to carry my camera around more often, so I hope to populate the gallery before too long.

Oh, and WordPress’ gallery looks to be coming along nicely.