Mile23's blog

This site has been upgraded to Drupal 7.

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

I doubt whether it's right to call them 'cult classics,' but this web page does a great job of telling you which third-party lenses are worth checking out.

Of particular interest to me is the Tamron section, which exposes me as a fraud; maybe I am part of the Cult Of Tamron. Read more about Cult Classic Lenses

The Tamron Professional Learning Center isn't so professional as you might think, but it's also a whole lot of useful information. Read more about Tamron Professional Learning Center

A Simplified Zone System For Making Good Exposures

Norman Koren walks you through the basics. Read more about A Simplified Zone System