{"id":1554,"date":"2008-07-01T12:15:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T19:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2009-03-16T11:33:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T18:33:46","slug":"odds-n-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/odds-n-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"odds-n-ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

A random blog post to make sure I get something logged for the month of July! Even though it’s only July 1, I feel like my recent intermittent postings mean I have to blog when I can otherwise I don’t know if I will anymore!<\/p>\n

Okay so here we go:<\/p>\n

Brooklyn Museum and the Flickr Commons<\/strong><\/p>\n

some pretty exciting things going on over at the Brooklyn Museum, including their consigning to the Flickr Commons<\/a>, which is less about taking photography in the museum<\/a> and more about sharing their image archives (as well as images taken documenting recent events, openings, etc.). That’s great, just great. Good for them! Brooklyn Museum Flickr sets<\/a><\/p>\n

Firestats, for WordPress<\/strong><\/p>\n

Firestats<\/a> is a great, simple, web statistics system that can be easily integrated with WordPress (which runs this site). It’s smooth, consise and pretty darned comprehensive:<\/p>\n

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fresh install – 0 statistics<\/p>\n

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Firestats automatically refreshes! 5 minutes after install, already 5 visitors. That’s cool! (Further down the page you get referrers, countries, search terms, the lot… I hate having to open another tab for my webhost to view urchin stats – Firestats is easily accessible from within the WordPress dashboard!)<\/p>\n

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Firestats – hello to my Ukrainian and Chinese blogcomradesurfers! all 11.11% of you! Canada… eh.<\/p>\n

PicLens for Firefox 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following on from the success<\/a> of over 8 million downloads of Firefox 3 on its launch day, new extensions and add-ons are emerging at an alarming rate, and most of them are pretty top-notch! Furthermore, at least on my system, memory hogging doesn’t seem to be as much of a burden anymore, even with 20+ add-ons running! One of my new-found favorites is PicLens<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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PicLens google image search for “nick normal” – an image I’ve never seen before, but I recognize it to be by Lance Wakeling of artmini acclaim! to the right of his image, me and Ashley at the Steinway Street stop<\/a> in Queens (photo by Josh Picker<\/a>); below that an image from Peekskill NY, at bookworm or whatever that fantastic bookstore is called, from a trip taken by Kerry, Sarah, Jamil and myself; above the photo of me and Ashley an image of me<\/a> taken by Cassie Thornton<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Huh? same google image search for “nick normal”. I definitely don’t recognize this photo, but wish I was there! That hexagonal game board with topographic layers! brilliant! (and that orc is soooooo dead! unles… he has… mithril<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

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PicLens is quick to browse Flickr too. not sure if it browses titles, tags, or description, but it’s pretty fast! That’s sweet!<\/p>\n

So yeah, get PicLens<\/a>!<\/p>\n

and lastly…<\/p>\n

Note to self:<\/strong><\/p>\n

FIX YOUR FUCKING BLOG CODE!<\/em><\/p>\n

i’m on it!<\/p>\n

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