Nice weather today. I am just testing the post-by-phone capability, so I snapped a pic with my cell phone and sent it to my blog. Looks like it worked, but I had to manually delete the signature that U.S. Cellular placed at the end of the message (which is not cool Joan!).

If you look closely you can see “The Bean”.

Since I spend a lot of time on the road, it seemed like a great idea
that WordPress allows posting to my blog via email. I can think of a
thousand cool uses for this, but mainly I just want to CC my blog
whenever I write a descriptive email. I find myself explaining and
discussing things more often by email than anything else. This is an
example of just such an email that I sent somebody, and just thought I
would copy my blog site while I was at it.

Since I recently became a huge fan of Wordpress, I have turned two sites into full featured weblogs. My enthusiasm for blogging is almost as strong as my interest in Flash development, so naturally I am trying to use both of these together.

As Microsoft gradually and quietly rolls-out the “Eolas” update, Flash developers are finding that users will be required to click on the SWF once to activate it, before they can interact with the content. This seems insane, but stems from a recent lawsuit between Eolas and Microsoft, hence it is commonly referred to as the Eolas udpate to IE.

So in addition to finding a way to easily add Flash content to Wordpress posts, I also want to use my favorite Eolas work-around, FlashObject. Having never authored my own WordPress plugin, I chose to hack my Wordpress install rather than produce a nice neat solution that could be easily distributed (sorry). But this post is intended to explain what I did, inspire others to clean it up, and hopefully result in a Wordpress plugin from somebody more qualified than me.
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I have several blogs that I read on a regular basis. It seemed a bit easier to put them in one spot, so I did. The articles on this page were not posted by me, so be sure to give credit (or blame) to the actual author. Each title should link back to the full story on that author’s site. Let me be perfectly clear…I am not trying to pass these articles off as my own work.

enjoy: Brilliant Minds

The camaro.com web site takes advantage of the Flickr API. If your not familair with Flickr.com, it is a great place to upload and share your photos. One of the nicest features is the API that lets you integrate Flickr hosted photos in your own web site.

After visiting the Chicago Auto Show in February, I returned with some great pictures of the new Camaro concept car. Now that those images are on Flickr, you can view them online by visiting either camaro.com, or my Flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rendition

Here is a sample photo from the collection.