…then the DNS changes went through. Thanks to the new “Missing Files Host” feature, I can move from FTP to domain hosting without any (significant) problem!
I was up late last night blasting through 100 Ponturo puzzles from Mind Candy (this was half obsessive puzzle trance and half me thinking that they would at some point end). There’s numbers and logic and something about Japan, so the obvious comparison must be made to Sudoku:
Ponturo is like Sudoku crossed with NP-complete*
I’m drawn to Ponturo because it’s quick and fresh, and there’s a boardgameish appeal to its archipelago presentation. Also it requires less focused concentration than Sudoku, so it pairs well with television watching.
Official Google Blog: Personality goes a long way: "Today we're releasing six themes for the personalized homepage that try to solve these challenges: a city, a teahouse (super cute -- this one is my favorite), a winter scene, a sky, a beach and a bus stop. All of our themes are dynamic: they change with your own local time of day, current weather conditions or season."
I'm all about the teahouse. Happy watercolorish animals drinking tea and eating sushi. It's also refreshing to see warmth and friendly aesthetics on a Google page.
I heart Connected Flow’s FlickrExport plugin for iPhoto, but one thing it does not handle well is the ICC color profiles that iPhoto adds to photos. The problem is that a photo that goes through this workflow only looks good if the app that displays it (i.e. the browser) understands the embedded color profile.
Firefox does not.
Safari does.
Internet Explorer does not.
There may be hope for Firefox eventually, but until then, things work better if you use ColorSync to convert the image to the Generic RGB profile, then upload to Flickr.
This is fairly straightforward:
Run ColorSync Utility (in Applications > Utilities)
Open the relevant image
In the menus down at the bottom, select “Match to Profile” and “Display > Generic RGB Profile”
Click “Apply”
Save
I went and made an Automator plug-in for the Finder’s contextual menu. It’s really easy, just two steps:
Finder > Get Selected Finder Items
Preview > Apply ColorSync Profile to Images
Though now I need to replace the seven images that I recently uploaded directly from iPhoto. Blah.
I play board games and video games, and sing sea shanties when I can. I like shiny things and tech things and cat macros. I am aware of all Internet traditions.
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