Jamie Thingelstad

Bumper sticker on drive to work: “Friends don’t let friends drink Starbucks.”

Wishing Twitterific could post in the same way Spotlight allows a search to be done. Avoids a big window having to come up.

I’ve grown tired of K2, the Wordpress theme I was using. It’s a nice theme, but I didn’t like how heavy it was and I started growing more frustrated that it wasn’t “stretchy”. I searched for a bit tonight for something better and after trying a number of them out, I found blog.txt. I wasn’t sure about it at first, but I’m really liking it now. It’s super, super-simple and I like the elegance of it. I’m having some trouble getting Ultimate Tag Warrior to play with it, but I think it’s doable.

Let me know what you think, or if you find something broken.

Update

I have tags working now, although it’s not perfect. I’ve sent a note to the theme creator to see what his plans are. I’m thinking he’s going to wait for Wordpress 2.2 and native tags support rather than messing with Ultimate Tag Warrior. I also got Extended Live Archive working in the archives. That makes me happy since I think the AJAX work in ELA is so helpful for that function – not just eye candy.

I’m liking this theme a lot – I like that it leaves the focus on the actual content and spares some of the cruft. I re-enabled some plugins (like Share This) although I’m not sure that I like the cruft it adds. We’ll see.

I’ve also enabled WP-Cache for the first time. It seems transparent and promises speed improvements. I expect the site will be a ton faster for everyone already since the new theme is so much smaller than K2. I also dropped the number of items on the blog main page to 5. I expect that nobody reads down the page.

Ordered another 4GB of memory for my Mac Pro.

I continue to really love Lightroom. I’ve been finding more and more value out of my 35,000 photos with additional metadata. I haven’t even really gotten out of the Library module of Lightroom and I’m still supremely happy with it.

A month or so ago I suggested to a couple of friends that we should start a Lightroom User Group. This idea got a turbo-boost when I ran into two developers from the Lightroom team that work in the Adobe office in Minneapolis. It turns out that the Twin Cities is just a great place to do Lightroom stuff!

Tonight MinneLightroom is officially launched! I have no idea how much uptake this will get. We are going to work with folks at Adobe and the Twin Cities Photoshop User Group to get the word out. I’m hoping that we can get some momentum and have a group of fun photography people to discuss how to use Lightroom the best!

Helping my brother-in-law get Parallels setup on his MacBook.

Listening to John Prine on the drive in this morning.

Got first run at MinneLightroom website up and running.

Upset that the Amstel Gold cycling race got 2 hours, while Paris-Roubaix got 1 hour.