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FanExpo 2010

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:09:17 GMT

The FanExpo is a convention that combines comic, horror, science fiction, gaming and anime fans all under one roof.

This year has a wide range of guest stars and celebrities.

However, one of the main attractions at the FanExpo isn't the celebrities or the vendors. It is the fans. See a slide-show of some of the many great costumes after the jump.

Updates about nothing much

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:18:17 GMT

Been rather busy lately with a number of things, but after looking back over the last 3 months I don't find anything substantial to report on.

There are a number of little things, so I'll list them out.

Adding a Chess page...

Thu, 27 May 2010 08:45:09 GMT

I've decided to add a page for chess, mostly to discuss the odd game I'm a bit pleased with from Chess At Work.

Things aren't quite working out for me as of yet… I was just going to duplicate the methods used for the Articles section, but it will require a wee bit more personalization than I have had time for. Mostly because I've started another project (yay! more projects!). That project is Bellydance In Toronto. I am a month behind in the design phase. Because I suck at design. The current work in progress is at the development server.

Hopefully I can get one of these finished this week.

Zen Photo

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:22:04 GMT

I spent a bit of time today playing about with Zen Photo. It was a rather simple installation, similar in ways to a typical Wordpress blog. The only items that are needed initially are database specific details.

I played a bit with a few different themes, but after getting some odd PHP errors with most of them, I decided to stick with one of the defaults, stopdesign for now.

A couple of the features I liked was the ability to upload images via FTP and the automated watermarking. The use of lightbox for the Exif data display is a nice touch as well.

Of course, now comes the part where I have to decide which pictures to put up…

Feline Funkabelly

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:53:12 GMT

March 11^th was Funkabelly at Lula Lounge in Toronto. As always, it was a fantastic night with great music and fabulous dancers.

Pictures after the jump.

Events and such

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:56:56 GMT

Added an event calendar.

Mostly this is just a way for me to keep track of things, but I will be referencing some of these events in the case that I am taking pictures or that I have an interest in promoting them. Such as the chess nights at the Dog's Bollocks.

A bit of styling and more tags

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:29:36 GMT

Went and repurposed a css template from Free CSS Templates. It's a rather simple template, but workable for what I need.

I also am playing a bit more with the flickr tags… some nice options for pulling out various pictures via sets or tags.

Flickr Test

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:02:12 GMT

Testing flickr_tags. Had to walk through the various gems and vendor them to the radiant vendor directory.

Well, this is Radiant CMS

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:39:46 GMT

At The Strategic Coach, my co-worker Dave Pijuan-Nomura has begun to build our own internal CMS using Radiant as a core. To help with that, I decided to rebuild my personal site using Radiant to experiment with some of the underlying technology. While installation is as simple as installing a GEM, it didn't play too well with the basic setup of the cPanel server my domain is hosted on.