About This Site...

Welcome to Mile23.com!

Mile23.com is a blatant piece of self-promotion by a guy called Paul Mitchum. As a piece of blatant self-promotion, it does leave a bit to be desired, since there is no recent content.

Beyond that, it's a platform for ephemera, bits of tid, and the kind of information that fills nooks and crannies.

The name 'mile23.com' comes from mile markers. I started taking pictures of them a while back, and they'll be showing up more and more on the site as it evolves. Read more about About This Site...

Drupal 7 Upgrade Achievement: ATTAINED

This site has been upgraded to Drupal 7.

The notable pain points were: Read more about Drupal 7 Upgrade Achievement: ATTAINED

Misfenestration

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A 'misfenestration' is the act of typing into one chat window when you meant to type into a different one.

For contrast, see 'defenestration.'

By posting this 'blog entry, I now own the search results for this word. :-) Read more about Misfenestration

How Not To Run A Web Site

The last update to this web site was a year and a half ago, which makes me wonder what I've been up to. Read more about How Not To Run A Web Site

The Most Basic Color Management Info You Need

I: Stating the problem

Suppose you took a picture, and you want to print it out. The color might be accurate on your computer screen, but not so right when you print it out. It might be too dark or maybe not saturated enough.

This is the most basic color management problem. Things look different on the screen than on a printout. Got it? Good. :-) Read more about The Most Basic Color Management Info You Need

More Security

Update to Drupal 5.1 complete. We hope.

Some modules I use aren't available for v.5, so let's see how it goes. I might shift back to 4.7.6.

More update.... It took some doing to get the image toolkit working. After installing the image module, trying to change that setting would show me that there were no toolkits avaialble, so drupal would use it's built-in GD. Of course that didn't actually happen; no toolkit was used, so trying to upload an image resulted in no thumbnails. Read more about More Security

Drupal Security Update

I updated drupal with all the latest security stuff. So basically some stuff will look different for a little while, and some stuff may not work at the moment.

If you depend on this web site for anything, please let me know so I can thank you and maybe send you some flowers or something. But sorry for the inconvenience. Read more about Drupal Security Update

Some General Links

Some items you might find to be of interest. Click 'read more' to read more. Read more about Some General Links

Software for Freelance Photographers

Some software for photographic freelancers:

FotoBiz looks pretty comprehensive, with a FotoQuote stock pricing module. It's written in FileMaker and is extensible. $229.

An index of software for photographers over at stockphoto.net. Not a very focused list, but maybe worth a look if you can't find anything else. Read more about Software for Freelance Photographers

Digital Image Archive Management

I've been trying to find some relatively easy software solutions to the problem of tracking photography submissions to various publishers. There are a bunch of options for freelance writers, but none I can find for photographers.

However, I did find this nifty run-down of IMS (Image Management Systems) software, at the Technical Advisory Services for Images, an academic standards group. Read more about Digital Image Archive Management

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