Hello. As you may have noticed I've been quite remiss in posting anything to Lightbox in a long while. After being super dedicated to the concept of daily photo posts for several months, I've now fallen off the wagon. I...
This is our family Christmas card for 2006. I hope you all have a great new year and a great 2007....
I'm on vacation this week, but thanks to MovableType's scheduled posting feature I've got a week's worth of photos scheduled to post at Lightbox. This week I will be featuring photos from my business trip to San Juan earlier this...
Well, it took a bit more time that I initially hoped, but I just posted my 200th image on Lightbox. When I first began my Lightbox photoblog, my optimistic hope was to post an image per day, like this. But,...
Well, after making sure my database was safely backed up and a little few tense seconds, I upgraded my Movable Type installation to the new 3.31. So far, it seems that everything is going well and I am going poke...
I'm going to disable new comments on this blog until I get a handle on all the crazy comment spam that's been hammering me lately. I really think an upgrade to MT3.2 is in order. The new SpamLookup plugin seems...
I just got an email this afternoon imforming me that my site's XML feed has been added to the Macromedia XML News Aggregator. Cool, now I just need to write some stuff about Macromedia... rather, Adobe's products....
Macromedia has updated their stats page showing Flash player penetration. Since initially being released in September of last year, Flash Player 8 has already achieved nearly 50% penetration. I think this is a remarkable amount of growth and it speaks...
I've been making some little tweaks here and there under the hood here at stevesmart.com lately, including to the search results page. Until today, the search tool only searched this main blog, not SmartLinks or Lightbox. Figuring out how to...
Well, here it is... December 31st with about 10 minutes to go until midnight. But the TV is off at our house, the kids are asleep and I'm just trying to finish up a few of my personal goals that...
I just added a new RSS 2.0 feed to my archives page that blends the main stevesmart.com content with my smartlinks content. If you want to copy-n-paste, the feed url is: http://www.stevesmart.com/smartlinks_blended.xml This site is becoming much more about the...
I just signed up for the new Google Analytics application. I spent few minutes last night adding the three or four lines of code to my site that allows Google to start gathering stats info for me. I've never really...
I've been experimenting this week with how best to display the "smartLinks" content of this site. I tend to do more smartLink posting than anything else (64 posts in August) but I felt that they were always a bit lost...
I was tweaking my Lightbox About page last night and started fooling around a bit with the formatting for each section. Since I often send a URL to somebody via email and add a message like "scroll down to the...
I just realized I have more entries posted to SmartLinks than I do to the regular portion of this website. (209 SmartLinks vs. 170 regular) I think that's because I tend to only have the time and the attention span...
I finally got everything worked out with my listing on Photoblogs.org Things were a bit strange with my listing, but things are sorted out now and it's all good. After you visit Lightbox, be sure to register at Photoblogs.org and...
I just added a little Flash widget to the home page that shows the 10 most recent images added to Lightbox. The SWF file gets its content from an XML document published whenever new images are added to my Lightbox...
I've just launched a new feature of this site, a daily photoblog called Lightbox. I used to post small photos-of-the-day to this site, but I was never really felt that the format really did justice to the detail of the...
In honor of the new year, I'm rolling out a new revised look & feel for stevesmart.com complete with all new graphics and stylesheets and new content organization. I hope you like it. There are still a few outstanding things...
You may have noticed this site has been in short supply of new content lately. The primary reason for this (besides the fact that we have a new baby at home!) is that I've just updated to MovableType 3.12 and...
This site (as well as my family site) is the latest to fall victim to blog comment spam, whereby obnoxious spammers use automated bots to populate the comment areas of weblog entries in an effort to increase their Google pagerank....
The fine folks who give the world Movable Type are set to introduce a new application to manage comment registration for blogs. While this site doesn't get a ton of comments, there are sites out there that do and many...
Stevesmart.com is in the middle of an overhaul, so things may look a little wacky for a few days. Expect some inconsistency from page to page. The home page CSS is getting pretty close to where I want it to...
After about a month and a half of downtime, stevesmart.com is back online. In addition to a redesign of the presentation layer, the biggest change to this site is on the backend. I've moved all my content from a homebrew...
Yes, this is the first entry in my new "blog" website. More news will follow. I promise....
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