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| This launched a while ago, but I used it again today and found it so awesome (again) that I had to say something. Printing driving directions on Maps used to be not so good... people would actually Ctrl-P the main map view instead of clicking on the "Print" link at the top-right.
Now, the "Print" link takes you to this page where you can customize how each step of the driving directions is printed: in plain text, with a mini map of that turn, or with a street view picture. You can also choose to have a large map of the overall route at the top. Each map (the big one and the little ones) can be zoomed and panned around, just like maps.google.com.
I should find the person who implemented this and give them a hug.
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| I've been slowly finding my way around Flickr. All of the 2008 pictures are up. Also, videos! I'll get to the 2007 ones... later. =) http://flickr.com/photos/veensantmo
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| I was browsing the amazing photo streams of some people's favorite wedding photographers on flickr and learning a lot and picking up tons of ideas, when I thought, "When am I going to get to try out these new ideas?" The last big wave of weddings just passed, and I've only got one more on my calendar. What happens when after all of my friends get married? Will I stop taking wedding pictures?
In middle school, I thought I'd go far in Tae Kwon Do. My instructor saw potential in me and wanted me to get into it competitively, but then marching band started and I had no time for Tae Kwon Do. Then, as I neared the end of high school and everyone was choosing majors, my band teacher thought I could have a bright future in music, but that was not to be, and I've played my clarinet less than a dozen times since then.
You could say I used to have potential in Tae Kwon Do and clarinet, but I didn't do either long enough to really excel.
More recently, when I moved to Dallas after college and there was an itch for more lively worship at PCAC and DCCYC, I started playing more electric guitar. I knew I wasn't good enough to do it for a living, but it was enough to fit the need: we rocked out on Sunday mornings. But since Bonnie and I moved out to California, I haven't played electric guitar for church (except when we went back to Dallas), and my electric guitar skillz are languishing.
On the other hand, I'm programming at work, and I have another little programming project on the side. So I guess I'll keep getting better at that, but it sounds boring (and way too nerdy) to be a one trick programming pony. In 30 years, I don't want to be awesome at programming and "used to have potential but didn't really excel" at everything else.
So what now? I'm already starting to get sucky on guitar, and there's a
looming dearth of wedding photography on the horizon. Seems like it's
time to either find ways of using these skills or let them fade into
the distant memory, just like the rest.... =(
And what does this mean considering the parable of the talents? Is it a waste if I end up leaving guitar and photography for other things? ...what other things?
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| update: It's done! http://flickr.com/photos/veensantmo
So I've been playing around with my flickr account, and I'm starting to really like it. I'm even thinking about abandoning my picture site at vincentmo.com (for the first time in 13 or 14 years!) to move to a pro account on flickr.
In the past, I've always built my own web sites for showing pictures, starting with a clipart and midi site that I built in middle school. As I got more serious into photography, I looked around and didn't find any photo sites that did everything I wanted:
- Easily uploads tons of pictures (15MB limit? you gotta be kidding me... upload 5 pictures at a time? just kill me now!)
- Organizes pictures into multi-level hierarchies
- Provides an interface that always shows some thumbnails so that you don't get "tunnel vision" as soon as you look at the larger version of a picture
- Looks nice
- Each picture can be in multiple folders (in other words, use tags, not folders)
So I built my own. =) Ok, vincentmo.com doesn't support tags, but I was going to build it... Any Day Now™. Along with viewer comments. And better map support to show where I took each photo. Oh, and there was that JavaScript bug I've been meaning to fix for about a year now.
Which brings us to the reason I'm thinking about switching. My spare time and I just can't keep up with the Horde working fulltime! So I will pay the Horde $25 a year to hold my GBs of pictures with easy uploads, multi-level hierarchies, a nice interface, and all the bells and whistles. Maybe. =)
Oh, and why not support my own company by using Picasa? That's another story for another day. =)
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