Sunday, December 14, 2008
Weeded twitter followers. Joined Vimeo after watching Jeff T's Disneyland vacation video. Web developers: if you view source on Vimeo's home page you'll find one obvious and at least one not-so-obvious treat. Vimeo's sign-up screens (regular and Facebook Connect) are fantastic and unique. I used Vimeo's Facebook Connect feature instead of joining Vimeo separately. 3 clicks and I was in—an amazingly wonderful sign-up experience. People interested in user experience on the web should check it out. Vimeo is super sexy in terms of modern web design: rounded corners, pastels mixed with bolds, 18-point Arial, ajax—it's all good. Usual oatmeal breakfast. House chores and cleaning. Cut my hair, showered. Lunch: same sandwich as yesterday. Watched extras from Planet B-Boy on Netflix DVD with Patrick. Patrick made bread pudding. I altered clothes: 1 pair of pants, 2 shirts. Spent about an hour trying to figure out the fastest way to download the originals of my photos on Flickr from August 28 to today. First I tried Flishr which appeared to let me download in 2 batches of 500 each. After I authenticated and then started the first download, I received an error message beginning with "System.IO.IOException: Unable to read data from the transport connection." The same error occurred multiple times even as it successfully downloaded some images. Ugh. Uninstalled Flishr. Similar behavior with Janten's Downloadr. Uninstalled it, too. Tried Magnus von Koeller's FlickrFaves, but it only downloads photos that you've marked as your favorite. Tried FlickrEdit—it seems to work. Here's what I said when I dropped it in my delicious stream: "I'm normally an antifan of Java applications, but out of many I tried to download originals of my Flickr photos after a hard drive crash, FlickrEdit was the only one that did what I wanted. Thanks, FlickrEdit team!" Dinner at home with Patrick: pork chops, corn off the cob, oven roasted new potatoes. Watched extras from Pixar Short Films on DVD borrowed from psychobauble and Nate. Fixed the mirroring script from my computer to the webserver using ssh-agent and ssh-add. FlickrEdit failed after downloading 617 out of 728 photos.