i managed to get more albums up on the album page. im using smooth gallery, which is a javascript gallery. i liked the design a lot and its pretty simple, doesnt require a database installation etc, but there are 2 main issues ive noticed:
1. the pre-loader is slow. i think it could be corrected by having it pre-load images when you click on a gallery rather than all at once on the index page, but i havent gotten into the code yet to try to alter it.
2. there is a bug in the code concerning the “back to galleries” button. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. the designer said this would be fixed in the next version, but i dont know when that is coming out, so i will be looking into work-arounds later this week.
leave me feedback, what do you think of smooth gallery?
spring break 08 was awesome, as expected. j and i enjoyed our couple of days in ft.lauderdale with the college kids and the elderly and then we hopped a cruise to the bahamas where we had spectacular weather and i burnt my once unburnable skin. turns out im not 18 anymore – shocking, i know.
pics are up over at the albums section under spring break 08, click here to take a look!
i think ive noted before that i suffer from chronic quarter-life crisis syndrom. i fell into a “what do i do now” rut at 21 and, 4 years later, am still trying to climb out. during my climb, ive had a lot of time to think (sometimes more than i want) and ,as an american, ive done what every american strives to do, and that is over-evaluate the situation as much as possible and attempt to identify the obvious single cause (and correct it – of course). but the conclusion ive come to is that its not a single cause, its a myriad of things that just happen to come together at once port-college, and a lot of it has to do with freedom. its not really quarter-life crisis – its getting used to the ho-hum of the real world and letting go of the extended childhood that was college. its coming to realize that the pursuit of “the american dream” is not in fact what you thought it would be. some people are made for corporate america – this is the life they dream of – but for me, its empty. the corporate ladder has never much interested me. the whole structure is built on the assumption that your main driving force is to obtain more power (i say power, not money, because in western society, money = power). but i am left out of that structure because my main driving force is not in fact power. id like to tell you what my main driving force really is, but honestly, i havent figured it out. i think figuring that out is something i will focus on for the next few months.
i saw a quote today over at No Impact Man that i really liked. its from Jerome M. Segal’s Graceful Simplicity: Toward a Philosophy and Politics of Simple of Living :
“The point of an economy, even a dynamic economy, is not to have more and more; it is to liberate us from the economic–to provide a material platform from which we may go on to build the good life. That’s the alternative American dream.”
NIM asks his readers “what would you do if you were liberated from the economic”. im still contemplating that. the possibilities are endless.
j and i are taking a vacation next week. we are heading south to ft lauderdale and then taking a cruise to the bahamas for a couple of days. for the most part i will be completely disconnected from the world for those 6 days. it is my intention to use this time to simply relax and let go. maybe when i return my mind will be a little less cluttered.
