Springtime at Houston’s
You can tell it’s Spring when the flowers bloom and the sidewalk is crammed full of two-wheel vehicles.
Missed Opportunities
I joined a group of friends last night to go photograph the last night launch of the space shuttle. NASA being NASA, the launch got canceled due to changing weather. We were left standing there on a freezing beach at 4:30 AM. Some folks did some light painting. I just turned the camera in the opposite direction and left the shutter open for five minutes. Other people went home with no pictures at all. Sometimes, what you get is what you make of it.
The Switch to WordPress
After months (or was it years) of bitching about Movable Type, I’ve finally switched to WordPress. I really wanted Movable Type to step up with the same ease of configuration as WordPress. Themes & plugins just work. You can code if you want, but you don’t have to do it. Both platforms have a thriving community of users, but the WordPress community seems to work the way I want to work. I think it’s a much more artistic community, given the plethora of themes I’ve reviewed. I settled on a theme called ArtSee from Elegant Themes. $20 for a year and access to all the themes on the site. Changing or customizing a theme is as simple changing configurations on a panel; turning options on or off. Doing the same on Movable Type...