Adding a Chess page...

I've decided to add a page for chess, mostly to discuss the odd game I'm a bit pleased with from Chess At Work.

Things aren't quite working out for me as of yet… I was just going to duplicate the methods used for the Articles section, but it will require a wee bit more personalization than I have had time for. Mostly because I've started another project (yay! more projects!). That project is Bellydance In Toronto. I am a month behind in the design phase. Because I suck at design. The current work in progress is at the development server.

Hopefully I can get one of these finished this week.

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Posted by Paul on May 27, 2010

Zen Photo

I spent a bit of time today playing about with Zen Photo. It was a rather simple installation, similar in ways to a typical Wordpress blog. The only items that are needed initially are database specific details.

I played a bit with a few different themes, but after getting some odd PHP errors with most of them, I decided to stick with one of the defaults, stopdesign for now.

A couple of the features I liked was the ability to upload images via FTP and the automated watermarking. The use of lightbox for the Exif data display is a nice touch as well.

Of course, now comes the part where I have to decide which pictures to put up…

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Posted by Paul on Mar 23, 2010

Feline Funkabelly

March 11th was Funkabelly at Lula Lounge in Toronto. As always, it was a fantastic night with great music and fabulous dancers.

Pictures after the jump.

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Posted by Paul on Mar 12, 2010

Events and such

Added an event calendar.

Mostly this is just a way for me to keep track of things, but I will be referencing some of these events in the case that I am taking pictures or that I have an interest in promoting them. Such as the chess nights at the Dog's Bollocks.

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Posted by Paul on Jan 23, 2010

A bit of styling and more tags

Went and repurposed a css template from Free CSS Templates. It's a rather simple template, but workable for what I need.

I also am playing a bit more with the flickr tags… some nice options for pulling out various pictures via sets or tags.

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Posted by Paul on Jan 20, 2010