http://www.imajazz.com Random stuff from KC Sat, 18 Aug 2007 09:26:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As if we need evidence. It's dry up there. Carlon Falls 2006: Carlon Falls 2007: http://www.imajazz.com/2007/08/17/dry-year-in-the-sierra/ Now here's a reason to post: to preserver a favorite recipe! Years ago, when we first moved to San Francisco, Beth worked as a cook at two restaurants on Haight Street—The Grand Piano and later at the Yellow Rose Cafe. Both are long gone and mostly forgotten. But we've ... http://www.imajazz.com/2007/08/02/yellow-rose-banana-bread/ I'm back. It's been a nice time away from blogging. Actually, its been a period of working too hard. More on that later? Meanwhile, check out these panoramics I shot from Treasure Island last week. I grew tired of the limitations of the photo stitcher that Canon bundled with ... http://www.imajazz.com/2007/07/27/back-from-the-dead/ I tried embedding Flickr slideshows on this blog a while back, but the cookbook I used didn't spell out all the necessary details. Now Lifehacker has posted a link to another service which seems to work much better. Check it out: Created with Paul's flickrSLiDR. http://www.imajazz.com/2007/05/22/another-way-to-embed-flickr-slideshows/ HDR images have recently caught my interest. At their best they are stunning, evocative images that appear from a different part of your brain—someplace after you've peered into the shadows and squinted through the glare. Or else some place that just dropped acid. Some really cool stuff ... http://www.imajazz.com/2007/05/17/fun-with-low-rent-hdr/ My first challenge here at my new home was to import all my old posts from blogger to WordPress.  WordPress can import blogs from many different blog hosting tools: posts, comments, blogrolls, everything.  But they have not caught up with the newly revised blogger.com blogs yet.  The current distribution of ... http://www.imajazz.com/2007/04/18/how-to-import-from-bloggercom-to-wp/ Which is actually my oldest home on the web. Imajazz.com was my first domain and I still use my kc@imajazz.com. For months now I've been uncertain about the future of my personal blogging. This move is one step towards re-purposing and reinvigorating this channel. The immediate motivation for the move ... http://www.imajazz.com/2007/04/18/welcome-to-my-new-home/  One big reason for vacating my blogger blog is to exploit WP customizability and array of plugin extension.  My very first attempt was to install a blogger import plugin, but that isn't going so well yet.  I have managed to install a cool Flickr plugin that I hope will ... http://www.imajazz.com/2007/04/13/my-first-foray-into-wp-plugins/ http://www.imajazz.com/2007/04/13/still-in-my-virtual-world/ Does this mean the old blogger blog is dead? Souns likely to me.  Let's see where this one goes... ...the goal is to import as much of the old blog here as possible. hopefully you're already seeing it... http://www.imajazz.com/2007/04/13/welcome-aboard/