URLs From the Edge

So, as many of you know, I've left my cozy job at Emergent and started a new company. Wheee. The first few weeks have been administrivia; setting up all the thousand little things that a new company needs. My partners all seem pretty skilled in their respective areas, and I'm getting a chance to staff this new company with some amazing talent. I can hardly wait to get to the 'roll-up-the-sleeves' part, real soon now.

Kiaya (www.kiaya.org) has posted a request for book suggestions, I can only presume she means a "what should I read" list, so that's what I'll create...

(Since I've been remiss in updating my blog, I'll make this a lengthier update)

A lot has been happening (that's my excuse, btw) and here are some highlights from the end of December -

a. I quit my job!
b. I started a company!
c. This means less money, but perhaps fame & fortune someday
d. In the short term it also means less sleep and more stress
e. ...since we've only got six months to get something in front of consumers. Wheee!

Sadly, a new UV light (the old one broke) revealed that the Door to Moria is fading out slowly, and will need to be redone soon. I'm not sure why... perhaps the sunlight is breaking it down, or maybe it's the paint underneath. I'll make another doorway in a shadier spot and maybe I'll seal the paint first with a primer coating.

This an another image test.
Now I'm trying to embed images that I've uploaded to my local server (this one) instead of simply linking to images out on the internet someplace (e.g. flickr.com)

This is something I painted on a blank wall in my living room. Obviously, it's completely invisible unless you hit it with UV light (like I'm doing here).

Hopefully this should peg the Geek Meter for you.

:-)

So I think I figured this out:

A bit of a manual process to be sure, but I can live with this.
Now I can add pictures (yay!).

Sadly the Image module for Drupal is *not* easy to install, so this blog will be sadly deficient of pictures for a little while.

Since this is my blog, and since I'm the admin of the servers, I really don't have anyone to blame but myself for not figuring it out. It just requires more shell commands and PHP than I feel like dealing with right now.

L8R all!