Cary Brothers - Blue Eyes
This week’s Song of the Week comes from a soundtrack that I have been listening to over and over again. Partly because I just saw the movie and thought it was INCREDIBLE, but more on that to come soon enough, as I will post an extensive review of the film “Garden State”. This is one of those movies that has so much going for it and then it adds music that lifts the movie so much that it is astounding. The music made the movie and vice versa. Out of the entire soundtrack it was difficult to pick one song to be my SOTW but I had to pick one and this is the one that won out, followed closely by “Fair” by Remy Zero, who have since broken up and who’s lead singer was married to Alyssa Milano (come on you can’t beat that).
Song: Blue Eyes
Artist: Cary Brothers
Album: Garden State Soundtrack and All the Rage
Why This Song? The entire Garden State soundtrack, which I recommend highly to any music enthusiast, is full of subtle, soft, and/or folkish type songs that really fit the movie and this is no exception. This song features a songwriter with great talent and a great voice, who is yet to even be signed by a major label. This song is just real, and you can feel it in his voice and just like you can feel it in the movie. The music itself is very soothing and the lyrics are touching (‘Blue Eyes, You are all that I need /Blue Eyes, your the sweet to my mean’ and ‘All the lights on and you are alive / But you can’t point the way to your heart / So sublime, when the stars are aligned /But you don’t know / You don’t know the greatness you are’) . For as much as I love angry and angst ridden music, I have no idea why I like sentimental stuff like this, but I just do. Regardless if this is your style or not I would recommend checking it out, it really is a great song by a musician that seems to have a promising career.
NewsFire 0.1
I hate creating entries for program updates or new programs, however.
If your a mac user, get this now! NewsFire 0.1
Optional Comment Moderation 0.3
This will be the last version of this plugin since WordPress 1.3 will have this functionality built directly into it’s options panel(s). So, consider this update a mandatory update for all of you that will continue to use WordPress 1.2 for awhile yet.
A few small adjustments to this version are the following:
- Fix: OCM now plays nice with others.
- New: Option: Notify Admin of Comment needing Approval
The purpose of the latter is that some people, those with comment notification on, were getting two emails per comment to be notified. No big deal really, besides those out there that get hundreds of comments per post - must be nice.
Oh yeah, and I switched to // for commenting per line. Don’t like it? Go find a puddle to sit in and cry. You may download this plugin by clicking here.
Photon for iPhoto
Just a quick note. My good friend Chris has been working his fingers to small nubs trying to get this out the door, and now that he’s finally done it I’d feel ashamed if I didn’t ask all of you, my loyal readers, to check out what he’s (amongst others) has accomplished.
Photon, which is an iPhoto plugin, allows you to export your photos from iPhoto directly to your blog (MoveableType or Typepad powered) with ease. Since I’m a WordPress user, I look forward to the time when a release that supports WordPress comes out. As I see it, it’s a 1.3 waiting game.
If you use Moveable type or Typepad, and use a mac, do yourself a favor - get Photon.
Addendum: Chris has commented about the WordPress 1.3 waiting game, and although there is an unsupported “work-around” to get Photon working with WP 1.2, I’ll be waiting for the official release.
Meta-data mayhem
With Tiger coming out next year, I figured I’d get an early start on tagging everything taggable with Meta-data between now and then. My first project; iPhoto. Currently I have just over 9,000 photos within my iPhoto library; and although I plan on getting rid of some along the way - I am sure this is going to be quite the undertaking. I gave it a go recently, and after about 1 1/2 hours of tagging, I managed to get 250 or so photos properly meta-tagged with what each photo contains. So, you can see that I will be at this awhile.
I’ve been figuring out my meta-data tagging process as I go, since it was nearly impossible to figure out the proper structure before hand. Here are a few things I’ve come up with, which might be of some use to any of you who are doing something similar.
Family Photos
A vast majority of my photos are just that, family photos, which consist of reunions, visits, vacations, etc. etc. So how can I keep them as searchable as possible, without creating redundancies which will make filtering practically impossible? Easy, it’s something I like to call timeline naming. The structure of your photo’s meta-data should consist of the following (at the very least).
- Location or Event
- Content description (left to right*)
- Nicknames for persons/content within
- Timeline information#
* I write the content description from left to right because that is the direction which I think is best, especially since I write in that same direction. As far as the meta-data is concerned, this matters not.
# The way I handle timeline information does not necessarily have to do with a date in time, since iPhoto stores that itself anyway, but rather a way of filtering out the contents of an image based on content timeline. I am sure this is making little or no sense to you, but I’ll try to give you an example of this.
I have 3 sisters, each of which are currently married. I have pictures in my library from pre-marriage, the actual wedding, and now their married lives. How do I keep these straight? Well, I could easily add some text stating married, not-married, wedding. This would do a decent job, but being that I have 3 sisters, 2 brothers, my parents and myself in the library with very similar images, I think the way I’ve come up with works far better.
One of my sister’s names is Katherine, and she was married in 1992. The date of the marriage matters not, since the way I keep track of this is by the name which I call her within the meta-data tag. For instance, if I have a picture of her from when she was a child at a fair let’s say, I would write the following meta-data tag: Fair Name, Katherine, Child, Ice-cream, Day, Summer.
Ok, I’ve now named location, content, state of content (child), content (ice-cream), Timeline information and content timeline because I did not use her married name in the photograph. If it were a picture of her after she was married, I would have put Katherine Black. If it were of her during her Wedding, I would have put Katherine Black and wedding.
Now, when I want to create a smart album, I just have to use the rules of:
- Contains: Katherine
- Does not contain: Black
- Does not contain: Wedding
Or a variation of the above. If you have any suggestions for this process, or if you have a better way totally, please share.
A switcher’s wish list
I have a few wishes for the Mac Operating System, and I’d like to catalog them now prior to their eventual release. I’m not saying my word is law, but I’ve seen many people and magazine authors commenting on some of these as well. I’ll try to keep this list within the scope of a “switcher’s POV” in that I will not be commenting on what I’d like to see brought back from OS 9 and subsequent Mac or Apple Operating Systems. But rather, these “features” or tweaks will be from what I’d like to see implemented based on my experiences with Windows.
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