That’s AWESOME. Plus, I want to see that movie when it comes out. Looks hilarious.
Anonymous, on
Evil set-up, dude. You’ve spent waaay too much time with my family.
Anonymous, on
So Cool Keep UP the good work [with the site] well ill be back with my friends~!!!! well got 2 go
****
Anonymous, on
It looks better on my wall.
Thanks again.
sam, on
Very intelligent article, and to be honest, not the taipu of thing i expect when being linked from a blog i first visited because the author had registered intertron.org. I think the comment about verbal false limbs rings particularly true (is that metaphor dead, or do people still ring bells sometimes?), and nothing pisses me off more than people tossing extra words into sentences to make themselves appear smart. On a related note, my friends have come to roll their eyes at me for saying this because it comes up so often, but for the love of god people, if you’re using “big words,” make sure you understand them. The objective of a large vocabulary is more precise expression, not vague but intelligent-sounding sentences. Some people are morons, I guess.
Aphyr, on
Yeah, that was my first thought, too. :D
M. A. McKeney, on
That’s exciting. Man. I would have liked to have witnessed that. Maybe Bash.org’s prophecy has come true and someone has truly invented an object to stab people in the face with over the internet!
Meredith, on
….but how….how….I mean….unless they uh, took it out side I just don’t understand!
Katie, on
So this is completely off any subject but I thought it was pretty funny. Check out these more “intellectual” pirate jokes. They made me giggle!
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2000/06/14pirates.html
See you soon!
~Katie
Aphyr, on
And a merry Christmas to you too, Katie! *hug*
Katie, on
Merry Christmas, Kyle! *hug*
ryan, on
:D im in love yo. sheet music? yes this is love.
Aphyr, on
*hug!* :-D
Katie, on
*hug!*
Smurf, on
American Gods! Yes! (One of my favorites.) You should read Anansi Boys, too.
Aphyr, on
I can try to bring across images and feelings, but I don’t know if I can write what I really mean. I guess this entry (and the next one) are extensions of my photography: I’m trying to convey the moments that throw me off balance, the things I can’t help but stop and stare at. Images that, were I to walk any farther, a part of me would remain snagged in that moment, and would drag me inexorably back.
With the snow… it’s different. I’ve tried to take some photographs, but the results are just snapshots. This sort of thing is a different approach to the matter, I guess. Maybe it’s good, maybe not. Worth a try, though.
Katie, on
Whoops. I forgot to say something. Sorry.
I love your writing, by the way. It’s so pretty. I can see and feel what you mean.
Katie
Katie, on
“and the biting cold is a reminder of how crisp the world can be, absent of warmth”
I think I have to disagree. Although it is cold, I think of winter, snow, and cold as a way to get closer to people, to be warm. Like, snuggling, sitting in front of a fire playing a game, hot chocolate… Those are all of the images and feelings that play in my head when I think of winter and it’s cold.
Anyways, yeah, I hope you feel some of that as well. Yay! for winter! Good luck with end of term stuff!
Katie
Aphyr, on
To be honest, I don’t know what the encoding was. It didn’t match *any* standard I know of–might have just been random data, but it couldn’t be translated to UTF-8. I’m only guessing Korea from the link that was in ASCII. The other post (there were two) was similar–no recognizable encoding.
To be honest though, I’m really fuzzy on the whole matter of multi-charset data. The database engine can store pretty much arbitrary strings, but the XML parser complains about non-UTF8 data when it encounters something it can’t translate.
Cessen, on
“the input validation function doesn’t check for weird character encodings (Hello, Korea…)”
Or did you mean even outside of UTF-8?
Aphyr, on
Oh, and thanks! :-D
Aphyr, on
A bunch of nodes are missing, actually. To preserve permanent links, node sequences aren’t compacted when entries are deleted.
As for the view function options, I completely forgot to re-encode those in the URL. It’s fixed now, but I have to run. I’ll clean up the unused fields when I get back.
Cessen, on
Are you saying that your content managment system doesn’t support international text? Tsk tsk tsk… :-P
Seriously, though, I’m not sure what difficulties there are in supporting international text on the web (can you just use UTF-8, or is it more complicated than that?), but it would be cool if you made Ragnar international.
plides, on
photo id=129 is missing. Also, t'would be nice if the cheatcodes would stick once entered. (i.e., if they were carried over to the <> buttons. Just a thought.)
You’ve got some really amazing photos on your site.
Aphyr, on
Alt154 was a small group of hackers and network enthusiasts of which I was a member. Shortly after I set up this server, alt154.org went down semi-permanently. I believe the administrator is working on getting that machine back online, but he has a number of more pressing concerns, so I’m not really suprised it’s still dead.
Aphyr, on
Photo navigation is getting to be somewhat troublesome–and I don’t have the time right now to fully implement a new scheme. What I can tell you is that there are several ways you can modify the results.
The view function returns up to twelve nodes whose properties match any valid field specification in the url. Hence, /view.cgi?title=Meredith will return all matches with a title of Meredith. Similar queries can be performed with date, id, taipu, author, etc, but these are not as useful. If only one node is returned, the XSLT shifts a bit to give an extended view of that node.
Yes, I am working on a search function. ;-)
In addition to the standard field queries, the view function takes four optional settings: sort field, sort order, page, and results per page (with url values: sort, order, page, and rpp respectively.) So, for example, you can craft a URL like this:
…Which returns the second page in ascending order of photographs sorted by title with 24 results per page. As you can see, it’s powerful, but not especially useful. In terms of UI design, I opted for simplicity in place of complex but powerful query builders. The view function is fairly friendly in that it will remember what values you passed to it last time, so it’s easy to browse through with 24 results per page, for example.
What really does bug me at the moment is a lack of a way to return to the thumbnail page of a photograph from a given full view. Actually, there’s a quick solution, but it fails in certain cases for reasons I won’t go into here. I’m waiting until the more elegant scheme becomes feasible, which requires some architecture changes.
As for “folksonomy” tags, that’s definitely on the list. Maybe over winter break. ;-) Thanks for the ideas.
plides, on
Also, what happened to the alt154.org domain name? Is it no longer accessable, or would a redirect be possible?
plides, on
I would suggest adding some sort of subcategory-based or fully random access way to view your photos. You have a heck of a lot of them, and going through them a page at a time is a wee bit cumbersome.
Just a thought. (The present design is very elegant, however.)
Katie, on
I hope you didn’t mind that. You can delete it if it is too…umm…bad? Yeah. Anyways, you can.
Aphyr, on
A bit of context is probably advisable here: Katie is referring to my seemingly inexhaustible supply of giant tootsie rolls.
Katie, on
YAY! for commenting! Yay!
Anyways, this will actually have substance, I promise. I know how you feel about the tunnels. I got to walk through them before the Haunted House started. I wish I could have stayed longer reading everything. It was a weird yet awesome feeling thinking about the people that passed through there long ago. What were they like? Where are they now?
Yeah. Ok. Reminiscing over. Is that spelled right? Probably not. Anyways, I’m commenting! Yay! We covered that though. Whoops.
So before this gets way out of hand and I ramble on too much, I’ll sign out.
Until next time!
The Sucker of Your Juicy, Tasty Rods,
Katie
(Wow, that was really dirty. Sorry. I apologize profusely. *bows*)
That is a good picture of me. Glad you found it.
*hug*
That’s AWESOME. Plus, I want to see that movie when it comes out. Looks hilarious.
Evil set-up, dude. You’ve spent waaay too much time with my family.
So Cool Keep UP the good work [with the site] well ill be back with my friends~!!!! well got 2 go
****
It looks better on my wall.
Thanks again.
Very intelligent article, and to be honest, not the taipu of thing i expect when being linked from a blog i first visited because the author had registered intertron.org. I think the comment about verbal false limbs rings particularly true (is that metaphor dead, or do people still ring bells sometimes?), and nothing pisses me off more than people tossing extra words into sentences to make themselves appear smart. On a related note, my friends have come to roll their eyes at me for saying this because it comes up so often, but for the love of god people, if you’re using “big words,” make sure you understand them. The objective of a large vocabulary is more precise expression, not vague but intelligent-sounding sentences. Some people are morons, I guess.
Yeah, that was my first thought, too. :D
That’s exciting. Man. I would have liked to have witnessed that. Maybe Bash.org’s prophecy has come true and someone has truly invented an object to stab people in the face with over the internet!
….but how….how….I mean….unless they uh, took it out side I just don’t understand!
So this is completely off any subject but I thought it was pretty funny. Check out these more “intellectual” pirate jokes. They made me giggle!
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2000/06/14pirates.html
See you soon!
~Katie
And a merry Christmas to you too, Katie! *hug*
Merry Christmas, Kyle! *hug*
:D im in love yo. sheet music? yes this is love.
*hug!* :-D
*hug!*
American Gods! Yes! (One of my favorites.) You should read Anansi Boys, too.
I can try to bring across images and feelings, but I don’t know if I can write what I really mean. I guess this entry (and the next one) are extensions of my photography: I’m trying to convey the moments that throw me off balance, the things I can’t help but stop and stare at. Images that, were I to walk any farther, a part of me would remain snagged in that moment, and would drag me inexorably back.
With the snow… it’s different. I’ve tried to take some photographs, but the results are just snapshots. This sort of thing is a different approach to the matter, I guess. Maybe it’s good, maybe not. Worth a try, though.
Whoops. I forgot to say something. Sorry.
I love your writing, by the way. It’s so pretty. I can see and feel what you mean.
Katie
“and the biting cold is a reminder of how crisp the world can be, absent of warmth”
I think I have to disagree. Although it is cold, I think of winter, snow, and cold as a way to get closer to people, to be warm. Like, snuggling, sitting in front of a fire playing a game, hot chocolate… Those are all of the images and feelings that play in my head when I think of winter and it’s cold.
Anyways, yeah, I hope you feel some of that as well. Yay! for winter! Good luck with end of term stuff!
Katie
To be honest, I don’t know what the encoding was. It didn’t match *any* standard I know of–might have just been random data, but it couldn’t be translated to UTF-8. I’m only guessing Korea from the link that was in ASCII. The other post (there were two) was similar–no recognizable encoding.
To be honest though, I’m really fuzzy on the whole matter of multi-charset data. The database engine can store pretty much arbitrary strings, but the XML parser complains about non-UTF8 data when it encounters something it can’t translate.
“the input validation function doesn’t check for weird character encodings (Hello, Korea…)”
Or did you mean even outside of UTF-8?
Oh, and thanks! :-D
A bunch of nodes are missing, actually. To preserve permanent links, node sequences aren’t compacted when entries are deleted.
As for the view function options, I completely forgot to re-encode those in the URL. It’s fixed now, but I have to run. I’ll clean up the unused fields when I get back.
Are you saying that your content managment system doesn’t support international text? Tsk tsk tsk… :-P
Seriously, though, I’m not sure what difficulties there are in supporting international text on the web (can you just use UTF-8, or is it more complicated than that?), but it would be cool if you made Ragnar international.
photo id=129 is missing. Also, t'would be nice if the cheatcodes would stick once entered. (i.e., if they were carried over to the <> buttons. Just a thought.)
You’ve got some really amazing photos on your site.
Alt154 was a small group of hackers and network enthusiasts of which I was a member. Shortly after I set up this server, alt154.org went down semi-permanently. I believe the administrator is working on getting that machine back online, but he has a number of more pressing concerns, so I’m not really suprised it’s still dead.
Photo navigation is getting to be somewhat troublesome–and I don’t have the time right now to fully implement a new scheme. What I can tell you is that there are several ways you can modify the results.
The view function returns up to twelve nodes whose properties match any valid field specification in the url. Hence, /view.cgi?title=Meredith will return all matches with a title of Meredith. Similar queries can be performed with date, id, taipu, author, etc, but these are not as useful. If only one node is returned, the XSLT shifts a bit to give an extended view of that node.
Yes, I am working on a search function. ;-)
In addition to the standard field queries, the view function takes four optional settings: sort field, sort order, page, and results per page (with url values: sort, order, page, and rpp respectively.) So, for example, you can craft a URL like this:
/view.cgi?taipu=photo&sort=title&order=ASC&page=2&rpp=24
…Which returns the second page in ascending order of photographs sorted by title with 24 results per page. As you can see, it’s powerful, but not especially useful. In terms of UI design, I opted for simplicity in place of complex but powerful query builders. The view function is fairly friendly in that it will remember what values you passed to it last time, so it’s easy to browse through with 24 results per page, for example.
What really does bug me at the moment is a lack of a way to return to the thumbnail page of a photograph from a given full view. Actually, there’s a quick solution, but it fails in certain cases for reasons I won’t go into here. I’m waiting until the more elegant scheme becomes feasible, which requires some architecture changes.
As for “folksonomy” tags, that’s definitely on the list. Maybe over winter break. ;-) Thanks for the ideas.
Also, what happened to the alt154.org domain name? Is it no longer accessable, or would a redirect be possible?
I would suggest adding some sort of subcategory-based or fully random access way to view your photos. You have a heck of a lot of them, and going through them a page at a time is a wee bit cumbersome.
Just a thought. (The present design is very elegant, however.)
I hope you didn’t mind that. You can delete it if it is too…umm…bad? Yeah. Anyways, you can.
A bit of context is probably advisable here: Katie is referring to my seemingly inexhaustible supply of giant tootsie rolls.
YAY! for commenting! Yay!
Anyways, this will actually have substance, I promise. I know how you feel about the tunnels. I got to walk through them before the Haunted House started. I wish I could have stayed longer reading everything. It was a weird yet awesome feeling thinking about the people that passed through there long ago. What were they like? Where are they now?
Yeah. Ok. Reminiscing over. Is that spelled right? Probably not. Anyways, I’m commenting! Yay! We covered that though. Whoops.
So before this gets way out of hand and I ramble on too much, I’ll sign out.
Until next time!
The Sucker of Your Juicy, Tasty Rods,
Katie
(Wow, that was really dirty. Sorry. I apologize profusely. *bows*)