Category Archives: The Management

Hevelonian 4.0

You might notice we’ve had a bit of a site redesign in honor of the release of Wordpress 3.0 and my current insomnia. If you have any ideas about how you would like to see the top menus structured, let me know.

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Happy third.

It merits noting that today is the third anniversary of our little photoblog project. 2,928 posts & 1,794 comments & two new babies later, here we are! I’m not sure where we’re going in our fourth year but I’m confident we’ll continue to see new and interesting places & faces, and that (here and there) we’ll have a technical or methodological innovation to give surprise.

PS. Flickr says that this is the most popular photo I’ve taken since starting the project, taken on November 22nd, 2008, right after I had returned from California for Fakesgiving. Steven and I were doing some raking and the sun came out just as she was sitting in the right spot. But instead of using this photo I went with this one from the dog park for my POTD.
Wait what, Squirble?

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New year, new header, new tagline

It has been pointed out that our tagline “bicoastal, bimodal, bionic” isn’t really correct any longer as we no longer have anyone representing on the west coast. So, in an effort to keep things fresh, let’s update our tagline and header. Feel free to leave suggestions for either in the comments.

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Multiple photos per post

Grapes & football

I like to do multiple related photos into one post instead of making them different posts. It’s just my preference, and I like that it concentrates comments in one place instead of having them split up over several posts. Lottie asked about this today so I thought I’d explain how to do it.

But before doing stacked photos you have to make a change to the posting layout (else they won’t be directly over each other). You only have to do this once, after that stacked photos is easy.

1) Log in to flickr.
2) Go to http://www.flickr.com/account/blogs/?from=extend
3) Click Layout link to the right of hevelonian.
4) You should see several lines of code in window*. Replace everything there with the code below.

<div style=”text-align: left;”><a href=”{photo_url}” title=”{title}”><img src=”{photo_src}” alt=”{title}” /></a></div>{description}

*If you don’t see code in a window, instead have a bunch of different sized dogs, click the leftmost 500px dog, then customize, then replace that code.

5) Click Preview/Save, etc.

So, once you have that set up, to post multiple images, do something like this:

1) Open both images in separate tabs.
2) On which ever you want to be on top, click “Share This -> Blog It -> Hevelonian”.
3) Before hitting the POST ENTRY button, switch to the other tab.
4) Click “Share This -> Grab the HTML”. Copy the HTML code there.
5) Switch back to the original tab, paste in that code to the comment window and click POST ENTRY.

Let me know if you have any questions.

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Foss Fest Challenge

Foss Fest

Some of you may have heard about Foss Fest, a music festival that some friends of the blog are putting on in Somerville on September 5th. Unfortunately I won’t be there but would like to open the floor for an official Foss Fest Challenge. Go, have fun, shoot, and the best/blurriest/most commented/highest cop ratio to illicit beer (with valid non-zero denominator) shot of the festival will get a commemorative Foss Fest STAFF t-shirt. Conveniently this event also falls on Guest Post Sunday so all-known-comers are welcome to play. Cheers!

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Perseids Challenge

Tomorrow morning, before sunrise. Bust out the tripods, get away from the city, help make it happen. Best results seem to come with long exposures at high ISO, fish-eye lens optional. More than 100 meteors per hour!!

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Birthday Challenge

Midnight! Due to judicious rule breaking we had 16 entries in the SMHB Birthday Challenge (that’s more than both dog-a-palooza and the NDH challenge put together). There’s no formal judging criteria but I think we can safely rule out anything with disgusto meat in it. My own personal vote is for pie since I’m biased towards confections though this dirty face is pretty cute. What do you guys think?

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SMHB BDAY challenge!

The intersection of Steven and cake is pretty sad, returning no results. Steven and birthday is not much better, with one sleepy looking picture from two years ago. So since we’ve got a FAIL on those two, I’m propose a new tag, the SMHB Birthday Challenge! You’ve got 11 hours east coasters, get on it!!

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