Warren Falk

I have a page dedicated to my ideas for The entertainment system to end all entertainment systems. Comments on it can be posted to this blog.

I have set up a page to describe my idea for an elegant representation of data to replace the unelegant standard XML simply because I can’t bear to work with it anymore than I have to. This should also fit nicely as a component in an application framework I’ve been conceptualizing for some time now too.

For now, all I have is a draft. The hope is that the draft will be clear about the basic concept of elegant data representation. Later, I will add technical specifications to the draft once they are complete. I would also like comments and questions on the draft. (They can be posted here as comments).

I love wordpress, but if you want to use wordpress as photo blogging software, it is somewhat lacking. Especially if you want it to be quick, easy, and something my wife can do. I have seen a few people tackle photos in different ways, but what I was looking for didn’t seem to exist.

My photo blogger plugin allows you to center a post around an image. You begin the post by uploading an image. The system will keep the full quality image, and will also downsample an image for display. The downsampled image is resized to fit completely within independent maximum width and height specifications which are configurable.

A post is automatically created for you with the image attached and the display image placed inline complete with the code necessary to allow users to click the image and see when it was taken, and download or view the full quality version of it.

You can edit the post in the regular wordpress editor to add any extra text etc.

In the future, I expect to add the ability to show a “gallery” or something like that in the Categories list which will find all images and list the thumbnails and post titles.

The plugin is available for download here: wf-blogphoto.php.txt [warrenfalk.com]

If you’re new to wordpress plugins, simply download it, remove the .txt from the end and place in your wp-content/plugins folder.

In my last adventure, among a very many other lessons, I learned never to leak the name of something you’ve been working on to people whom you’ve known for less time than you’ve worked on it; especially if they have demonstrated a desire to claim ownership of it.

I decided to look into resurrecting my online four-player chess game now that my previous plans are officially “previous plans.” I ran some searches to see if anyone had built an online four player chess game resembling my first attempt, but found none. However…

Just thought I’d jot down an idea I had while trying to improve the performance of my computer but without reinstalling Windows.