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Constalator

Wanna learn about constellations? This flash app. is going to teach y’all about constellations.

Before I even start I need to write out some guidelines for myself.

Stars

Learn to make a star sparkle Learn to make a star sparkle randomly Learn to control the randomness of a star sparkle (for multiple stars to ensure they sparkle differently) Optimize the sparkle. [...]

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So I checked my email just a few moments ago and low and behold there was the email I have been waiting for…my username and password to hop on over and order a Chumby!

Widgets I have found for my temporary Virtual Chumby

Moon Phases Flickr Photo Viewer Daily Horoscope Weather by the Weather Channel

So excited! Can’t wait till [...]

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Now I’ve always been a true Massachusetts resident, when the Sox are doing good, I’m on the bandwagon, but still never watched the games. When they weren’t doing good, I’d shake my head in disappointment with the rest of the folks who actually knew what they were talking about.

But this year has been different, [...]

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Took a drive this weekend. Instead of goign to King Richards Faire again I decided to be hungover in bed. That’ll happen. Here’s some pictures from the weekend’s drive to Wachusett Reservoir.

If you were cool enough to have a browser that could view frames there would be a lovely slideshow here waiting [...]

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Special characters like MS Word’s smart quotes can muck up a good custom piece to CMS work. First we’re going to go over using a regular expression to make sure that & and any character code starting with & can always be save, and displayed in a form or webpage.

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Getting emotionally ready to get childlike.ninedays.org back up and running as a photoblog.

It’s been forever and I’ve got a lot of people to re-connect with via photoblogging.

I was about to unpack Pixelpost and get to going until I stopped and thought to myself about the pros and cons:

Pro

PixelPost is made special for photo bloggers, it [...]

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After my smoothie shoot I got to thinking about how the garnish in food photography is probably more important than the food (or beverage) itself.

I am by no means a master chef, so I figure that any future ventures into food photography will likely involve beverages or deserts, so I’ve looked up some articles and [...]

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I’ve now got some tutorials prepped and ready to be published and initially I had intended on putting them as part of www.ninedays.org which will soon be my portfolio, but blog.ninedays.org has really turned into a good home for my more personal than professional content.

I really think my tutorials fall under that category.

So if they [...]

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From an old email my mom had in her inbox from 2004 (pre-victory might I add)

Food for thought from the Boston Globe

The Patriots are like the new boyfriend that you really like-he’s awesome but almost too good to be true, so you worry. The Bruins are like the guy that you just casually dated and you [...]

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I have recently become addicted to smoothies. Well not really all smoothies but in general the idea of smoothies.

After perusing All Recipies I found a lemon berry smoothie recipie, and I absolutely had to try it. I’ve read through a smoothie book or two while perusing Borders before and one thing I know [...]

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In an effort to take a picture today I have decided that tomorrow I will post a recipe for the smoothies I make on almost a daily basis.

How will that help me take a picture? Well my dear, for one: there is no photo posted for that recipe on the website the original came [...]

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I just completed my very first official WordPress Plugin that I am going to release to the public. It requires that the authors login to the blog before they leave comments to have the appropriate style applies.

commentisauthor

The Comment Author plugin is a simple one, it just involves one function that takes 3 parameters, 2 [...]

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I’ve started a new habit, ‘cept this time it’s a good one this time!

I’ve started keeping my notepad with me wherever I go. Before bed at night I write a list of thing I can do tomorrow to feel better about me it’s not entirely a self-improvement list but also a lit of tasks I [...]

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Went on a drive yesterday. It was so sunny and beautiful and around 3:30pm I found myself on my couch, working on my computer, staring at the sunlight streaming through the curtains and I had to get up and go!

So I took a quick drive down Route 9 from Park Ave in Worcester to [...]

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So I was thinking, you know, about how I Sally-ed out at King Richards Faire, well photographically speaking. so I’m strongly considering giving it one more try this next weekend. It’s about an hour and a half drive, $24 at the gate but in an effort to face my fears maybe this is [...]

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There’s nothing better than new toys for your camera. Here’s a list of new toys I’d love to get for my camera, great toys I already have, as well as any cost-less DIY alternatives.

Lenses

LensBaby (Pictured on right) - Amazing lens that gives you a different kind of control over your photograph the likes of [...]

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In an attempt to expand my photography portfolio and get some great photos to edit I’m going ot start shooting my friends and their tattoos. I’ve found some inspiration on Flickr for tattoo photographs and I am excited to get started with the project.

Using my friends has major benefits

They’re free, I mean a lot [...]

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As of lately I have become, well, obsessed with the Prototype JavaScript library. There is, as there always is, heated discussions across the internet of the benefits/strengths/weaknesses of many readily-available JavaScript libraries. Such as:

Prototype MooTools jQuery Mochikit Dojo Toolkit Yahoo! UI Libray Google Web Toolkit

But for the time being, all those libraries are irrelevant. It’s great how easy they are [...]

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I had almost forgotten why I hadn’t bought a new alarm clock.

Then I remembered it’s cause I’ve been waiting for a Chumby which according to the ChumBlog insiders are getting invites to order them now! I signed up early October 2006, I’m hoping I might get insider information before November, which is when they are [...]

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I am creative.

In problem solving, in troubleshooting, in work-arounds But I am not visually creative.

Don’t get me wrong; I really want to be. It’s just not my forte. Give me a camera and I can get visually creative, but a pen and paper? Mouse and monitor? I’m visually useless when I start [...]

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Toll collectors on the Massachusetts get a bad rap, for what seems to me to be no reason. The ones I interact with every day really are just a joy to deal with. The gentleman I almost always see in the morning, getting on the pike in Auburn (RT 290/395/20 entrance) is always so happy [...]

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In my continuation to revolutionize my own version of Hemingway Reloaded I became curious to know how many versions of Hemingway are readily available for theme downloads. Of course I’ll tell you how I feel about them. Quite entertaining coming from the girl whose own theme is in shambles!

Hemingway Wordpress Theme Remixes

Hemingway The original Hemingway [...]

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As I take my all time favorite, uber simple Wordpress theme Hemingway Reloaded and manipulate it/mold it to my liking I keep discovering all these other fantastic Wordpress Themes I never imagined existed.

Wordpress Themes

WP-Polaroid

Very cool design. I like the way it has places for ads that are well designed, well placed and unobtrusive. [...]

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I am a disappointment.

I forget how scared I am of people when I go out to do street photography. I always tell myself “I’ll be cool with talking to strangers, asking to take their pictures” but I never am. You think it’d be extra easy especially with people all Renaissanced to the 9’s but no…still [...]

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I’ve used ‘em all. And yes, I am showing off, I went from Greymatter to B2. Then it was Wordpress, dabbled with B2Evolution on the side. Gave Movable Type a shot, then played with Textpattern. Fell in love with Expression Engine but in the end I decided to come back to Wordpress. [...]

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So I’m torn, last night I invited Mom to come with me on an adventure to the Topsfield Fair. We used to go every year growing up but then my brother and I “got lives” and we stopped going as a family. But this morning Mom calls and throws out the idea to [...]

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