Writing Photography Rambling
Yeah.. I'm not the happiest today. I'm going to write an entry later on with more detail.. just wanted to let everyone know I'm not dead.
Excessive Forum Updates
I've made some updates/upgrades on the forum that are worth mentioning. The changes are as follows:
Quicktime Pro Serial
If you use Quicktime for OS X (the one that is packaged with the OS) you'll notice that some of the features they leave out and reserve for 'pro' features are mostly retarded (technical term). You can't even put the movie into full screen in the non-pro version.
Intel Macs Get XviD
This is a big deal, deserving of it's own post. Even if it just returns results in google for random people to see, this information has to get around because it's so useful.
I watched Lord of War today, and although some parts were disturbing, they were neccessarily disturbing, as they didn't make anything up... shit that happened in this movie was real and wasn't a fantasy, and watching it made it that much more disturbing. It brings up a lot of good questions, especially about war. Is it wrong to supply arms to people to kill? How about to defend themselves? Well those positions can be switched depending on what side you're viewing it from. Is it the gun traders that cause the death, or are the people pulling the triggers the responsible ones? I highly recommend this film to any intelligent person, who likes to get different perspectives on things. Nicolas Cage was excellent as an actor and a narrator, and the film was intense, emotional and disturbing because deep down it was extremely realstic (at the end of the film it even says it was based on true events and real people). Click on the poster to the left to see it full size (make sure your browser doesn't resize it. It's an amazing poster.. look closer.)
Excessive Forum News
Added the ability for administrator level accounts to delete posts or entire threads with the click of a link which appears at the bottom of each post. Authors can now edit their own posts as many times as they like. You can only edit a post if you were the poster. Fixed an issue with the way the script handled auto-creating titles when replying. Modified and fixed a few visual aspects. When viewing a post, all responses will show underneath it as a thread-tree. Also, when viewing a reply to a post, a link to the parent thread is displayed above the post. When submitting a new post, users can now check a box that will inform them by e-mail when someone replies directly to that post. Started work on a UBB style for the board.. it's about 95% done, but I'm not going to release it yet... it will be coming soon.
Last night both Anthony and myself decided to go out for an hour or two, leaving Webkore completely unmanned. I think that's the first time we've really done that actually. For those that don't know, we have a respond-in-30-minutes-or-get-a-refund policy, so it's kind of a big deal with we miss a ticket.
When I got home from the bar I checked tickets and there were none. We rock!
As everyone saw, yesterday I spent some time creating a message board, then adding features and fixing problems with it throughout the day. In total I probably spent an hour or so working on it, and I'm pretty happy with the results. As per Tony's request, a UBB style to the board is about 90% done, and it's built into the script, you just tell it which style you want to use. There are a few things I need to add before I can actually start letting people use that feature though, and I'll probably do that later today.
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I got up a few minutes ago... about a half hour ago. I was thinking about ways for people to talk or send messages without it being a comment on an entry (if it was unrelated) and the only two things I could think of were a private message system or a message board. I figured the message board would be more fun and more used, so I decided to make it. I chose to make it threaded, since they're a dying breed, but much easier to read, especially if the user base is small.