Someone has written a little web application that Holganizes photos. It crops to square, adds a border and light leaks and can, if you want, convert to black and white. Not bad. My only complaint is that it shrinks the image to 300 x 300 pixels, which is kind of small.
For more examples, go look at their gallery page.
(Photo: The Metamora Aqueduct, Holganized; original image here)
Either the frost we’ve had the past few nights hasn’t been enough to kill off the evil allergens, or I’m coming down with a cold. I woke up with a sore throat this ayem, and I’ve been sneezing and coughing and cranky as hell. Kill me now!
I just noticed that this template is lacking a search form. Eeep! All is well now. I’ve stuck one at the top of the center column at the bottom.
Funnily enough, the code supplied in the WordPress documentation did not work. I lifted this directly from my previous template, and it seems to be working fine.
And, another toy cam photo, just because I can.
Winter 2004
Autumn Sunrise 2004, from my toy camera set on Flickr
As much as I’ve been playing around with toy cameras lately, I’m surprised to notice that I hadn’t uploaded a bunch of digital toy camera images to my Flickr stream. That has now been remedied. They were all taken a few years ago, with either a Vivitar or JamCam. Obviously, the quality is low, low, low. I really like how some of them turned out, though.
By the way, if you are using Firefox, the new image gallery format may not be showing. I don’t know why, as it’s working properly in every other browser I tested. I tried clearing my cache, re-started Firefox, and even rebooted my machine, but it didn’t refresh properly for me. What finally worked–duh–was to close out all my tabs, then clear the cache.
Rising Sun on Fog and Frost, Autumn 2004
I woke up this morning to a thin layer of frost on my car’s windows. It was too thick to wipe away with a towel, but not really so thick as to need scraping. It was frost, though, and that’s all that matters.
Hallelujah!
I’ve been tearing my hair out, trying to figure out why all the captions for the final image in every post were flush up against the following paragraph. No matter how many paragraph or hard breaks I stuck in the damned things, there was still no space between the two lines. O gross! That’s the sort of thing that would make the baby Shelly cry.
It occurred to me, after fiddling with it for nearly an hour, to try sticking a couple of hard breaks inside the end center tag. I don’t know why it worked, but it did. Weird!
And, of course, once I find a tolerable theme that has already been ported to Coppermine, and after I finish massaging it into something I can more or less live with, I think to check it in IE, where it is all kinds of b0rked. Damn! The lovely sidebar, which ought to be along the side (duh!), is down at the bottom. Gaaah! I hate IE!
I apologize for the real-time fiddling, but I just didn’t feel like creating a whole new back end directory to play in. Anyway, I’m surely not finished yet. There are some things I really like about a few of the themes I’ve been playing with, but every damned one of them has a deal breaker of one sort or another. For example, this one. I’m not super keen on the blogroll being uncategorized, or the fact that all the sidebar junk is at the bottom, but I have to say, I do really like the rest of it. Only, it does not go with my image gallery. And y’all know how I feel about sans serif fonts. Yes, I could alter that, but unless I’m totally in love with the theme otherwise, I’m not going to bother.
I thought I’d found a WordPress theme I liked that had–miracle of miracles!–been ported to Coppermine. Obviously, that would have been too easy. There was some sort of error in the Coppermine files that was beyond my ability to figure out. Crap.
Another theme I really liked was missing a blog roll. I added one, and it worked but the formatting was wonky. Same with a calendar (which I’ve decided is indispensable, as it prompts me to be less lazy). Another had something seriously wrong with the archives, and I wasn’t able to fix the problem.
I’m not going to find something I like straight out of the box, obviously, but I’d like it to at least not have structural problems with the code. I can slap a coat of paint on it, but I cannot rebuild the foundation, if that makes sense.
So, I’m still hunting, and the periodic moments of ugly or even flat-out not working are likely to continue. So, if you get a blank screen or a bunch of code, you know that I broke something. I’ll fix it or switch it back to another ugly-but-functional theme ASAP.
