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Last night most of us in Soda Jerk had dinner. Lynn had suggested it and it was wonderful! We rarely get a chance to hang out as a team. It was great getting to know more about my fellow improv team members.

For instance, we found out Lynn had been part of a DaVinci code documentary. She traveled to 21 places in Europe within 21 days! Fantastic! Also, we learned the origins of how we all came to follow Christ. Good times.

I’m very fortunate to have such loving people in my midst. I take it for granted.

It is very for me to isolate myself; trap myself in my room and work on the computer or on some project. I forget how many great and wonderful friends I have. I keep taking them for granted!

On a related note, I spent WAY too much time trying to get my camera to take some great pictures. Sure, the SLR works great.. but I dislike having the perfect frame, and then discovering that the picture wasn’t lit correctly. I keep thinking about that videocamera. At least I’d get instant feedback on the picture quality. I have too many well composed smeared shots.

• on my way to our store meeting… and free pizza #

Whoa. I need to get to sleep!

I knew this would happen when I moved to wordpress. I’ve been spending a lot of time trying to get things to work the way they were in LJ. *sigh*

I really should focus on my social life instead. I don’t know any ‘real’ people who use RSS feeds. All of my friends (even those at the  store) don’t use feeds.

Too bad though, there can be some really neat stuff about this.

I created a page where I explain what RSS feeds I have. Plus what other sites I use to talk to other sites.

RSS Feeds and interoperability

I doubt anyone has actually seen them though. Which is why I’ve posted everything in my blog onto my Facebook account.

I can’t seem to get Flickr or 43things to auto-post to my wordpress. Although it should be possible.

Ugh, I just woke up from a nap. I hate that. I guess that is what will happen when you are in a stuffy room. Usually I’m at work until about this time. Today though we had a short 5hr shift, usually we add an hour lunch to make it 9. There is a store meeting at 7-10.

I’d better see what I can do for then next hour. I still feel all drowsy.. = (

• about to see Walle. Everyone has good things to say about it. #

Hmm. It looks like I should have done this permalink thing when I first started the blog.

At any rate, I figured it all out

feed://hmatt.com/blog/category/wordpress/feed/

Hooray! WordPress does do feeds for each category! *I notice I keep spelling it ‘catergory’*

http://hmatt.com/blog/category/?cat=7/feed/ is the feed for this. All I need to do is put in the category id. Neat.

Next to do is to get the ?cat=7 to read as the actual name of the category. I’m sure a plugin does this.

I’ve been trying to figure out how wordpress autoformats links. One thing that usually bugs me is when links include the ending period if they are at the end of a sentence.

Fortunately it bugs someone else too-

Auto-hyperlink URLs

I’m glad there are coding people who have the same annoyances that I do.

Now if I can only figure out how to export each category as its own RSS feed. Then I could use the posts as css type of info for the different sections of my website. Until then I’m just going to draw a box or something on my website. I keep getting bogged down with the technical aspects of web design.

I bought a SLR camera at costco a couple months ago and I made a deal with myself. If I didn’t use it like I wanted, I’d return it.

Well, I’ve been trying to take my SLR out and about, but I’ve noticed something. Being the only one with a camera is a hassle. I am always fiddling with the dials (and getting blurry pictures). I am also never in the photos because I’m always taking them. When I do hand it off the pictures look like they’ll turn out great but then are all blurry.

I’ve been toying around with the idea of returning the camera and getting a video camera. That is something that may fit my needs better. The unfortunate part is that I’d be returning yet ANOTHER camera. I bought a small still camera a while ago. Then I returned it to get the Nikon, which I returned after a few weeks because it went down $100.

Hmm, that little digital camera I bought was okay, but I thought I could get better pictures by attaching a lens. The lens is the key I suppose. Even though it had a great portable size, the pictures were blurry. Also, low light conditions prevented a great shot. SLR cameras don’t fare any better. Well, at least in my case. One feature that I may like in the Canon HD camera is the way I can take a 2 megapixel still from the video. That might be nice.

The canon doesn’t have a manual focus ring. That seems like a bummer. It is the one thing I enjoy about my sony camera. Although that tape needing monster of a camera is rarely carried around. I want something small enough to take places, and easy to archive data.

That is where that hard drive will come in. At least that is how I imagine it. Video cameras are intimidating to people though. I could get candid shots on the SLR, but a video camera always makes people act all edgy. A lot of people kind of freeze up, as they feel like they are put on the spot.

Hmm. I still have another month before I need to return it or keep it.

Oh, but my family is coming down to California. So maybe I should get a video recorder to record the action when they come down.

I think I’ve just talked myself into getting the Canon tomorrow. Or ordering it if Costco is out of stock.

• at Elysian Park for the fourth; a Mosaic event #