Yearly Archives: 2007

I now have a dedicated Photo Gallery site!

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Well, I finally decided to try out one of those Photo Gallery scripts. I am currently playing around with Gallery2 (2.2.1). My gallery can be viewed here: gallery.markheadrick.com. I’ve customized it just enough to not look completely like a default installation LOL, but they all kinda look similar anyway.

What I like about it is that it automatically reads all the EXiF information from the JPG images from my camera plus what I add to it. The images that were scanned in, I added the basic EXiF information such as the actual date the photo was taken if I knew it and description of the image.

1973 Pontiac LeMansI’m still playing around with it, trying this and that plugin to see what it does. Oh the best program I’ve come across for editing EXiF information is Exifer mainly because it’s pretty much free and it seems to work well, even though the last update was in 2002.

I’ve added a new album that isn’t currently on my site. It’s pictures of my vehicles, like my old 1973 Pontiac LeMans! 🙂

At some point I’ll either integrate the albums on to the site here and replace them or I’ll just do away with them and just link to albums on my new gallery. I’ll have to think about it. 🙂 In closing, I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend. (I’ve lost count how many times I’ve come back to edit this… geez I can’t type LOL.)

Parent’s wall phone working fine now, DSL installation complete!

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Just thought I’d update that I was able to get the folks’ wall-phone working with the DSL filter. I had to take the phone apart and remove the sliding male connector on the back and cutting the wires going to it. I then cut a phone cord and stripped all the wires and spliced the like colored wires together. I was then able to plug this connector into the DSL filter plate and then attach the phone. Their DSL installation is now complete! 🙂

My folks finally have High-Speed Internet

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After many years of 24K Dial-Up, my folks are finally on broadband.  Last week I ordered AT&T DSL for them and I set it up for them today (ok, technically yesterday since it’s 2:00am now).  They are using the lowest speed offering of 768 Kbps down/128 Kbps up.  Following is a speedtest result:

Something tells me the upload speed is more like the 384 KBps setting.  My mom is pretty much blown away by the improvement.  What’s even better, the cost is less than what the dial-up was! 🙂 The only thing left to do is figure a way to get the DSL filter for the wall-phone to work properly.  The female connector on the plate does not protude out far enough to make contact with the male connector on the back of the phone. 😕 Argh!!

Since they are now on broadband, I downloaded and installed all the Windows XP updates and IE7 on their system as well as the latest version of the JAVA runtime.

Main website now in Standards mode and markrh.com created!

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Well, I believe that I have converted all my pages to be in Standards mode now. Along the way, a fair amount of code was cleaned up and corrected. I have also removed any dead links that I came across and tried to find alternative links if possible. Man, I had a couple pages that had some really messed up code in them. I was surprised they rendered correctly.

While I was reading the If you had the chance to own any domain name thread at my webhost’s forum, I thought about markrh.com since I use MarkRH as a username in just about every forum and website I register on. Went to godaddy.com to check it out and whattya know, it was available. So, I now have www.markrh.com which is parked at www.markheadrick.com. :mrgreen:

My next challenge with my site is to figure out how I can get rid of these frames and still have an embedded media player that doesn’t reload with everypage. I tried IFRAMEs before but that didn’t work. If I somehow figured out a way, I’ll of course have to change every page in my site ❗

Ack!!  I forgot about my DVD Movie pages LOL.  Okay, so I’m not done yet.

Update: I finished all my DVD Movie pages. I also realized I was using the wrong DOCTYPE so I corrected it on all my pages including at www.pelicar.info They are all now (let’s see if I can remember the method for showing this code):

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

I really like that WordPress Plug-In, makes displaying in-line code much easier and neat looking.