Posts Tagged ‘ Musings ’

Musings

Slowly trying to catch up on things. And there are so many things to catch up on… Seems December was a blur… And now we are starting the 2nd week of January. I had planned on starting my catch up yesterday, however, life seemed to have a different take on that issue as we woke up to ice on everything. It was beautiful to see. Such beauty and yet so much danger in something so simple as ice.

All of the elementary schools for our town were closed due to downed electrical wires and trees. There were reports of a couple trees on fire from hitting power lines. Then there is the ice itself on the roads…

Today it keeps fluctuating between sunny then storm clouds and a bit of snow followed by a bit of sun… the weather has yet to make up its mind.

Moments ago, we got a strange snow flurry – looked like hundreds of little styrofoam balls flying through the air.

Here is a shot of the actual little balls as they sat on my deck moments after the shot above was taken…

It was a great little break in my day to grab the camera and take a shot. I’ve actually been doing pretty good on keeping up with the photo a day this year so far… of course it has only been 8 days so far and now that I’ve mentioned it I have probably doomed it… but let’s not dwell on that yet…

I’ve been cleaning out my inbox in an attempt to get things organized so I can get back to work… Some of the items in the inbox are from so long ago… from net friends I had every intention of getting back to but never found the time to actually sit down and write out replies… if you are one of those and you are by chance reading this, I apologize… again, I’m very behind on many things…. including the email from my husband reminding me we have to write up our Christmas 2008 letter… yep, still haven’t done that… How about Happy Groundhog’s Day cards??

Design Query: Why can’t one place a RAW image from Bridge into Contribute??? It would make life a little simpler…

Back in May I watched one of Terry White’s Podcasts on Contribute CS3 which showed how you can use Contribute CS3 to update your blog. So decided to sit down and figure out how that works…

The first attempt was interesting as I had a new blog entry all done up and posted and then noticed that the date was wrong on the entry – started playing around with that and somehow managed to delete the post… GRR… Even more interesting is a few hours later it showed up again…. very odd…

Some interesting little bugs I came across… there is a BlogHub.csi file in the App Data section of the users local settings that has to be edited to allow photos wider than a 150px photo (it has a height/width limiter in the file)… also had to set up a new directory on the server for uploads and adjust permissions so WordPress and Contribute can upload photos…

Continue reading “Figuring out how to use Contribute CS3 to update blog”