New Office
Fro the past month or so I’ve been doing a load of product photography for work, basically they want to reshoot the entire product range so that it looks nice and consistent as opposed to what we’ve been supplied which is all over the place.
Anyway, I’d been moving between my office and the training / meeting room where we had some benches setup with a seamless background, it was becoming a pain to have to set everything up and pull it all back down. We were also having dramas with computers as well.
Basically the boss came to me this morning and said, “how would you like to have the training room setup as your office on a permanent basis, we’ve got no training coming up anytime soon and I’ve got a setup in my office for meetings”
Of course I said, “Yes”
So here’s a couple of quick photos I shot between product setups, now all I have to is get the espresso machine moved up here and I almost don’t have to leave my office……though a window would be nice.
Stopping crime, the Mac way
By now you all know I’m an Apple guy, some might say fanboy, but this story just goes to show you that Apple is so awesome that it’s actually stopping crime now.
First reported on The Unofficial Apple Weblog, and later in the NY Times, an Apple Store employee had her apartment robbed by a couple of her so called ‘friends’ at a party she hosted, of course at the time she didn’t actually know it was her friends that had done her place over. Anyway, another friend of hers noticed that she was online, well it was actually her stolen Mac, and told her about it. She quickly used another Mac to connect to it using Apple’s Back To My Mac screen sharing software where she was able to use the Photo Booth application, and the in-built iSight Camera, to snap a photo of the thieves which she of course took to her local police and voila’ her asshat friends were caught.
Seriously with friends like this who needs enemies.
Kind of reminds me of when I turned 21. I had a party at my house the night before and a few ‘friends’ had crashed on the lounge. The following morning, which was my actual birthday, I got up early and went for a surf only to come home to a very empty CD rack, a very empty Video rack, and a whole bunch of other stuff missing. I reported it to the police, and fortunately they notified all the local porn / pawn shops. The following day all my stuff started turning up for sale.
Yep, you guessed it. A ‘friend’ had stolen. On my 21st. Yay for friends like that.
Fortunately I got most of my stuff back, his mother compensated me financially for the rest, and he ended up going to juvenile jail for 6 months.
Moral of the story, Mac’s are awesome and don’t steal stuff!
I’m With The Band - Gig Guide
Those close to me and my I’m With The Band project know the frustrations I’ve had with re-instituting the gig guide when we moved cms platforms from Joomla to Wordpress.
I’ve tried about 5 different calendars, none of which would embed in a page without some form of pain be it in the form of database corruption, javascript conflicts, and a myriad of other dramas. I was all set to give up when I stumbled upon Google Calendar.
My .mac subscription recently expired and I was about to renew it as I find it very useful for syncing iCal across my 4 macs but I wasn’t really keen on coughing up the cash to re-subscribe so I started looking for other services that could just provide a calendar syncing service. Enter Google Calendar!
Basically Google Calendar is your typical online calendar that can be shared amongst other users and what not, with one difference….it gives you the ability to make a calendar public and then provides you with the code to embed that into ANY webpage.
And Bingo was his name-o!
After spending an hour this morning putting all the dates in the calendar for April I grabbed the code and created a new page on I’m With The Band, paste the code into the html editor and voila! It really couldn’t have been any easier.
Also, as part of the calendar setup you can share the administration of it with other people so I’ve setup the guys at Reverb Street Press with access so that they too can help update and maintain the calendar. And because I’ve setup the calendar as a public calendar it also appears in Google’s search for public calendars, so people who are searching for a Newcastle or Central Coast gig guide our calendar becomes available….hrmm, I better make sure I put a link back to the website in it though..
So if you’re looking for a calendar solution in Wordpress then give Google Calendar a go because it works and is dead simple to setup!
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