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Picture Time

Time to Shoot…

I am planning on participating in The Mayday Project this Saturday. It should be interesting as we will be at a chess tournament for most of the day and from there we are going to a graduation party for Doug, who is getting his MBA. Thanks to Elisabethan, I just found America 24/7 which is from May 12 -18. I’m going to sign up and take on the assignment. Should be a good challenge and a nice change of pace.

By tonight, Picture Yourself will have the 1000 submission posted. It’s there and waiting for me, teasing me. Tonight. Have you shared photos of how you Picture Yourself lately?

This photo, however, is not me.

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The Amazing Race

Get Ready for The Race!

The Amazing Race 4 is finally going to happen! I’ve been so worried that TAR4 wouldn’t ever start, that they would cancel the show, and that those of you that have never watched it would miss out on the best reality show on TV!

May 29th. I’m marking my calendar now. Major props to Promo and Shawn for thinking of me and pointing out the news. TAR4 is going to ROCK!

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Picture Time

Fake Fake Lomo…

I love the effect created by the Fake Lomo actions. Just one problem – I have Paint Shop Pro 5 on my computer. Stop laughing. I’ve had it for years, and it works well for me. One problem – I can’t figure out how to duplicate these steps in PSP5. Anyone have ideas how to do it?

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Geek Love

Cure for TiVo Envy…

There is a new gadget out on the market that is basically a Radio Tivo. But as I mentioned at Melissa’s site, Mike has something that is even better in my opinion. Not quite as amazingly perfect as my TiVo, but pretty damn close, he got an Avertv Studio Card for his computer for about $80. With it, he can record both TV programs and radio. (Well, when it wants to behave.) Then he used VCDEasy to burn the video that he recorded on the computer on to a CD – not a DVD, a regular ol’ CD – and it plays in my CD/DVD player. Mine reads Video CDs, as do many other DVD players in the U.S., so it is quite an uber cool solution. (More info on Video CD can be found at Doom9.) Or if you prefer you could just watch it on your computer monitor.

So if you have TiVo Envy but don’t want to buy one, it’s a solution worth looking in to!

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Geek Love

We Want YOU!

As some of you may have already seen, changes are under way over at ScriptyGoddess. I think I scared Jennifer with my threat of a hostile takeover of the site, so she isn’t taking down the site as she originally considered. But, in order to keep the site alive and going, we need YOU. Yes, that would be you. Right there, in that chair. YOU.

Where do you come in? Have you figured out a way to do something with your site that you didn’t think could be done? Have you written a cool snippet of PHP, ASP, Javascript or whatever that you are willing to share? Come up with a cool way to do something in pMachine or B2? Whatever the case may be, we’re open to hearing about it. You submit it, we review it, we’ll post it on the site with a by-line crediting you. Also, if I spot something on a site that I think is neat-o keen, I just might e-mail you and ask you if you’re willing to share how you did it or if I can share your post on the site (giving you credit, of course).

Perfect example of why we’re doing this – I spotted a cool grid of thumbnails on a site, and I commented to Ste that I sure wish I knew how to do it. He pointed out to me that there was a MT Plugin that would make it happen for me. Wow! I had no idea! Here I thought it was some code-fu magic. So once I test it out, set it up, get it working, I’ll write up how I did it and share it on ScriptyGoddess. YOU have the power to do this too. If you’ve ever felt like ScriptyGoddess has given back to you, now it is your turn to give back to ScriptyGoddess. Please bring us your offerings…

Please Note: ScriptyGoddess is NOT just for MT users. We are 10,000% open to tips on using any other blog software out there. Your tip for how to do something in pMachine just might inspire someone else to do something in another blog software, and the knowledge will spread and we will all grow.

In the end, it’s all about sharing the love, isn’t it? So help save ScriptyGoddess! Keep it alive! Share the love!