A Parade of Cats

I was organizing my digital photo collection, and found the cat pictures I've collected over several years of cat sitting. So I'm going to run a photo of a cat every day until they run out. So a warm round of applause, please, for Tommy, James, Knock, Abby, Audrey, and Jenny!

The Internet for Cats

One of my favorite cats, Jenny, invited me to join her network. Jenny is a very bouncy mixed breed cat that stayed with me for a few weeks, back when my condo was a kind of cat-hotel for travelling friends.

Email Form + Caching = “Doh”

Apparently, my email form has been broken for days, but of course no one could email me about it. I apologize to anyone who's tried to reach me over the past week through that form, and wondered why the heck they didn't get a response.

There were three problems relating to the server optimizations I'd recently made: 1. Moving wordpress into its own install directory broke some URLS on the contact form itself, so it wasn't able to execute when you clicked "submit". 2. Implementing caching: my email-dave.php file is a copy of index.php, which has all the wordpress goodness in it...including the "staticize" code that serves up cached versions of pages. So the changes I made to the URLS were not being served, because nothing triggered the "I am dirty" flag back to staticize. 3. After being staticized, the email form no longer can submit to itself and perform the actual sending of mail, with the send confirmation. It instead reloads the form, which in static form has all the PHP code stripped out! I added code to the staticize plugin to skip certain files to avoid this.

So the moral of the story is: * Don't let Staticize touch your re-entrant PHP pages

Werkaround Productions

I recently remade contact with Dominic Amatore, one of the alums of the RIT Computer Graphics Design program. I remembered how much I admired his vision back then, so it was with tremendous pleasure that I viewed his werkaround productions online demo reel. I love the sense of motion and the style...totally inspiring.

Kat Alert

Though he looks very alert in this picture, Kat is actually somewhat nearsighted. This gives Kate, who is very fast and sharp-eyed, a distinct advantage when pouncing for treats.