I found a need for a tool the other day - blogsome has a 300k size limit on image file uploads. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to have image files automatically resized/recompressed so they are smaller than a certain size…I wonder if this is possible. I’d like to see this feature in ecto. Rather than just presets, make a ‘smart action’, that automatically chooses image size/compression to make the image fit in a certain amount of data.
I have over 20 categories - not all of them have posts yet, but I think this is too many. How many categories should a blog have? I’m guessing 6-9 is about right. (Of course, each post done with ecto appears also under ‘General’. That doesn’t suck too much…NOT)
School Holidays begin again. Of course, I’ll be too busy renovating to do any relaxing! We had the concrete poured for the underpinning, and the mini skip delivered. 
Made some good progress this afternoon, though. Got rid of a heap of the vine out the front. 
Found two things in there: a bird’s nest, and a dead lizard. 
And tonight, I found a big hole behind one of the taps.
I use Gmail as a repository for all of my email, and a place to look at mail when I’m away from my primary computer. I really like the Spam filter - it generally picks up most spam, but not too many false positives. Until today. An update from adsense-support@google.com was flagged as Spam. Made me laugh. Oh, and I still have 49 Gmail invites left. Email matt.schinckel@gmail.com if you want one.
I use Google AdSense as a way of trying to make a little spare cash from my blog. I’ve only just started, and I’m still figuring out what ad settings work best. I just changed from a list of searches/hits to an Ad. Imagine my surprise when it came up with a Gay Blog Site ad: and I have no idea how it came up with this. I am not gay, and I haven’t written anything about homosexuality (before now). Of course, the irony is that I’m probably going to get more of them now, even though I’ve filtered that one…
I had to work today, which meant I didn’t get to start working on the house until about 5pm. Jaq was around town doing stuff, so she didn’t do anything before then either. Today I ripped up most of the skirting boards, and kept pulling nails and staples from the floor. Jaq continued with wallpaper stripping, until the machine exploded. Luckily, she wasn’t holding it at the time, and was not injured. One of the walls we were going to remove turns out to be a solid wall. We still should be able to do something, but it will change our plan of attack a bit. You can see in the first photo below that there are bessa blocks under the wood panelling.
Also, I’ve drawn up the House Plans, in AutoDesk Inventor. This is only the floor plan, and doesn’t show the different heights, but I’ll work on those when I get the time.
I’m working on saved preferences for iTunesRater, after a timely hint on macosxhints.com about Applescript Studio and preferences. The program will load them fine, but just doesn’t seem to save them. Too tired now to care.
Note: the best place to get the Template, as it looks now is: My Template Page. This is automatically updated. To set up Blogsome to use Connections as a theme requires some serious editing of the Connections theme files. Luckily for all of you, I’ve done this. What you do need to do first is download the actual theme from wherever you can find it. Try Vanilla Mist. Then, upload all of the images (making sure you change the top.jpg if you want, to whatever image you want there) using the Upload tab of your dashboard. Unfortunately, you cannot FTP to blogsome’s server, so you will need to upload each file seperately. Note: if you change the top image, make sure it is the same size. Leave the bar at the top there - that’s where the nav menu needs to go. I have added a couple of images: post_comment.png and search.png that also need to be uploaded. You then need to put all of the contents of the following files in the correct place using the Manage/Files tab of the dashboard: Main Page, Style Sheet, Posts, Comments. Depending on your browser, you may need to save these files - it might try to render them, and therefore make them rather useless. (I’m talking IE here!) Note: The most recent version is always available at Connections Template. That should just about do it. I would suggest you do some edits to make things a bit your own (maybe remove my AdSense code) but that’s up to you. If you cannot fix any errors, drop me a line or leave a comment here. Good Luck/Happy Editing Update: I’ve changed where the files are stored, and I’ve put the latest versions up there, so update away!
For all of those who haven’t seen the results, the Canaries defeated Man United this weekend, 2 nil. My pal Jo, who just left work for a while to go on a cruise mentioned something about Norwich needing to win the remainder of the games in order to prevent relegation. Looks like it could still happen!
We’ve just taken possession of a new house, and are currently going through the process of renovating it. We are hoping to move in in about 3 weeks, but I know it won’t be completely finished then! 
