~Blueebottle

Okay... I'm officially making this my printing account. A lot of pictures I need to print aren't one's I would pick to display as my artwork. Anyway, for a more art-oriented, less polluted with boring photos account, I made myself [link]

anyway. there, I said it. [link] I'll start posting stuff I'm proud of.

I've come to the point where I really need to learn how to use a database. It's probably also about time to be learning about Rails. Anyone want to buy me a good PDF book on Rails? [link]
I'm raising money to go do a 2 week service project in Guatemala, so pretty much every penny I earn is going there. But I really need a book to learn about Rails. I'm torn.

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it seems all the essentials of the web album work. I think I can start using it now, what do you think?


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aww crap! vertical pictures! how do I deal with that?

okey
there were some cross-browser problems for my new bluebottleimages web-album. Safari and IE don't support css selectors that were pretty crucial to it working, so I made some changes. It's not as elegant, but works.

My dad gets this CRN Magazine. I don't fully understand it, they keep talking about 'the channel' and 'VARs' and 'ISVs,' but it's tech stuff, and has quite a few interesting articles.

I woke up unusually early this morning and spent the rest of my usual sleep time reading tech articles, on print and online. Most of which compared windows, Mac OSX and Linux, and talked about what who is doing and what they should/might do.
There is talk of Apple dropping OSX and becoming a hardware retailer and letting people run windows, but I doubt that. I think a less dubious (and more happy) development would be for Apple to make their OS open source (or, even better, 'Free'), while funding that project and continuing its development led by Apple's current employees. At any rate, that won't happen for a few years at least, and a major shift in the way things work in the software tech world. The world is in a transition right now, we'll just see where it goes (and do our best to make it change the way we want it to).