Buddy Tignor curious about how/if/why/ehen Google finds images in Dspace. Pointed him to Google FAQs, adjusted the robots.txt on badger. Google has found at least 2900 images on badger.

Tom Streeter was wondering how Safari treated MP4 files and was it a server or browser issue (the former). Told him about .htaccess AddType and how he might have to download MP4 files first,.

More fiddling around with web cam display options, mostly along the lines of how to either avoid or alternatively ensure the use of ActiveX controls. Maybe the best way is to provide a choice: click here to use ActiveX (witha What is Active X? link); click here to use Java, click here if using Firefox. [...]

Consulted with Tina Escaja. hher barcodes ahd funny characters in them. Turns out she was feeding barcode generator .rtf (rich text format) rather than .txt (plain text format) files.

Demonstrtions and discussions of  use/support of iPod Video with Jon Bellum , Steve Cavrak, and Carol Caldwell-Edmonds

very brief consult with Cathy Yandow re: streaming server access for Across the Fence

increased frequency of DavisCam image capture from 1 hour to 15 minutes. Downloaded all images from DavisCam_1 (47) and DavisCam_2 (47) and Concam (27,000), and made QuickTime movies from them, just to show Allen Josey what to expect.:

DavisCam 1 movie
DavisCam 2 movie
Concam Movie (December 2004 – October 2005), 13 minutes

Sent message to katherine.calise@uvm.edu with davis_cam.php [...]

Investigated issue where new post to waw.blog.uvm.edu would not appear, an rebuillding indices  failed with perl error. Justin traced it down to enclosure URLs that were missing opr forbidden. Whoops.

Helped Kevin Hytten with a cgi-bin problem. he accidently deleted his scripts. We recovered them (with Franks Help)

Paul bierman wanted to know
There is a database flow left from the Dave days that you and I spoke about on the green last week.That is, for most every county there are three versions of the county name.for example,ChittendenChittenden CoChittenden Co.Would be nice for them all to be ChittendenCan you advise how to do that?
I [...]

Updating this blog; updating my other blog; writing notes to BLOGGING list, accounting for my time.

The new iPod arrived.
Loaded it with songs, photos, and movies.
Most movies were my own: created on little Konica-Minolta Dimage Xt, run throught iMovie, posted on blog, auto downloaded by iTunes; exported from a medium quality (LAN Quicktime preset) QuickTime file; Direct from iMovie projects; bought from iTunes store.
Watched on built-in screen, TV. I find the [...]

See previous post. Did much of the sam ething, but with Davis Construction cam 2. Wrote some PHP scripts that can be called from anywhere to greatly simplify coding oof web pages for others. See

static picture 1
static picture 2
dynamic picture 1, static web page
dynamic picture 2, static web page
dynamic picture 1 small, php web page
dynamic [...]

Played with the configurations of Davis Web Cam # 1. Set it to FTP to chipmunk, set up CGI and web page to display to world, same as Green cam or ResLife cam.  Explained to people why IE needs Active-X control. All on my day off.

Tina stopped by again. We installed PlaySound, Evobarcode, barcode binary and associated Applescripts on her machine. Showed her how to write poems in Text edit, save sa plain text, drag and drop onto applescript to make barcodes, record voce with Audacity, save as MP3, strip off MP3 extension from filename using Finder File Get Info, [...]