Viewing a Gallery

Posted under Present by Peter West on January 22nd, 2010. Leave a Comment »

Let’s see how this looks!

I like it.  In the future I will try to make smaller galleries with fewer pictures… and spend more time sorting and commenting on them.

Photo Tools

Posted under Present by Peter West on January 22nd, 2010. Leave a Comment »

Ok, so I think I worked out a decent system for transferring and storing files on this site.  I’ve installed a “NextGEN Gallery” plugin for Word Press… which will allow me to create galleries and albums… and do lots of other stuff with images.  On the local side I’ve setup “ACDSee with WS_FTP photomover”.  I can set it up to auto download the images from my camera when I plug it in.  I can then do a batch resize to make all of the images more reasonable for uploading and viewing online.  I keep the originals locally just in case I need the high quality images in the future.  The WS_FTP photomover part of the application (integrated) then allows me to transfer the resized images via ftp to the website.  All of the grouping, sorting, labelling etc etc etc I do from inside of the Next Gen Gallery component of Word Press.  It sounds a little complicated, but it actually seems to work reasonably well.

In my first batch of 87 photos (once I deleted the bad pictures) the size changed from 129 megs to 6.5 megs.

Netstudy Launch

Posted under Guiding Documents by Peter West on January 20th, 2010. Leave a Comment »

I recently decided that I want to write more frequently.  I intend to use this site as an ongoing method of documenting of my life; as a journal to occasionally record thoughts, feelings, and aspirations; and as a personal space to explore ideas.

I promised myself that I would not get too hung up on the technical details of this site… I may eventually tweak things here and there to optimize the site, to improve the design and layout, or just to amuse myself.  I have a tendancy to get caught up in the features of technology… to explore the workings and limitations of the software.  On this occasion I have decided that I want to stay relatively focused on content.

I have several main concentrations that will guide my development of this site:

PRESENT

  • Contemporary Ramblings and photos of my life (and the people and places in it)

PAST

  • My personal past… events and experiences that have shaped me (including but not limited to work experience).
  • Geneaology.  A place for me to post and organize the scattered bits of my family history that I have managed to assemble thus far.

FUTURE

  • My future…  as I progress through life, who do I want to be?  What do I use to guide and inform my life choices?  How do I set and achieve goals?