Sometimes
life is just too funny.
We've all had "one of those days" when nothing
goes your way. When it would have been much more productive
to just stay in bed with a 14 pound bag of Oreo's, a
haunch of beef jerky, and a couple of quarts of eggnog
and spend the day increasing your body fat index while
watching back to back re-runs of "Threes Company".
Luckily these types of days, when the entire deck seems
to be stacked against us, do not happen to often. But
the next time it does I want you to think about the
next few examples of irony, and maybe it will help you
get through your rough time.
-A Japanese fire department recently held its annual
fire prevention awareness barbeque and ended up burning
down their own fire station in the process. (Those
poor guys are NEVER going to live that one down)
-This years Akita Snow Festival has been cancelled,
.... because of too much snow. The city has had to dump
all the extra snow in the area where the festival is
normally held, thus are now unable to have a festival
on what has turned into a man-made glacier.
-A few years ago the government of Japan established
a new agency charged with finding new ways for Japanese
workers to enjoy more free time and stop putting in
such long hours at work. The project was quickly cancelled
when it was discovered that the workers in this new
agency were putting in 15 hour days in an effort to
come up with solutions to the overtime epidemic.
The irony is blinding.
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The standup of Sushicam Version 1.2 is taking a little
bit longer than I initially thought it would.
It seems there is no "out of the box" solution
to the blogging model here at Sushicam. Most photo blogging
software packages only allow you to post one image per
day, (like the pixel post application I am using for
the Photo of the Day section) which does me absolutely
no good since i like to post at least 10 new photos
with each update. They are also kind of lacking in the
text/plugin support area.
Likewise, most regular blogging applications are great
for posting text, but they fall apart when you try to
incorporate the posting of multiple photos in an update.
A lot of them have the capability to post photos, but
I really don't like the way they work. Thumbnails don't
have any captions, and they don't open thumbnails into
easily browsable galleries.
If at all possible I'd much rather keep the same image
navigation flow that I already have here at Sushicam.
It's just turning out to be quite a project to make
it happen within a Content Management System.
If you are interested you can take a peek at the Wordpress
2.0 version of Sushicam I have been working on.
It still needs a lot of work, (formatting, and link/menu
development) but it should give you an idea of where
things are headed.
Seth has been providing a lot of help in getting the
kinks worked out, and we all owe him a big "Domo
Arigatou Gozaimasu" for his continue behind the
scenes suport here at Sushicam.
So if anyone out there has any ideas for how I can
more easily get Wordpress 2.0 to look and operate more
like the traditional Sushicam, please, feel free to
drop me a line.
Go ahead.... Pimp my blog.
In the meantime I'll keep working on it, and as soon
as the image management issue is worked out the new
site will be up and running. Then we can get the Sushicam
Contributors material flowing for all of us to enjoy.
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