I finally ‘finished’ the site redesign today. There are going to be plenty of broken links, etc because I was just too fuckin’ lazy to do rewrite rules for everything I probably should have. If you have any problems and you absolutely must find something and cannot, post a comment, shoot me an e-mail or click over there on “Chat With Bill”.

If you had a user account here before, it’s been whacked. I haven’t decided if I need to bring them back. Please let me know if you have any problems with commenting, etc.

I have updated a lot of the categories, bringing them more in line with more localized content. Everything that was here already has been reorganized into specific cities (especially for the South Metro). If you really feel that I’m missing a South Metro city that isn’t listed, let me know (yes, Savage could be considered South Metro, I might add it).

The new banner image was redone by Gregg. Please thank Gregg for his rockin’ work :)

I have been having some issues with the GMap module in Drupal (it displays the maps for each writeup). Regardless of what setting I chose in the setup it would zoom all the way in without a way to change it on the map itself.

It appears, after some digging on the GMap module page, that there are now some hardcoded values, for whatever reason, that are causing this.

I took one of their suggestions and updated the values and got it to stop zooming all the way in but there was still no zoom control on the map. I posted this code piece to help everyone else with that problem.

Hopefully they’ll fix it in the next version.

I really didn’t want to have to do this but I have outgrown Gallery on my website. With over 16,000 photos hosted and a requirement to move to Gallery2 to fix some issues and have continued updates to the software, I decided to move to a pay-for hosted solution. I hemmed and hawed over the decision but based on the simple uploading via e-mail Flickr won out over the competition from Google and others.

I have been uploading the photos I have taken over the last year that I have in their original state. The rest I have on Gallery will be uploaded at their maximum size (1024×768 in most cases) when I get around to it. Thankfully there is a handy-dandy perl script that uses the Flickr API to upload entire directories. The only thing I wish it did was create sets and add the photos to them. That would own me.

If you’re interested in seeing what I have so far, please check out my Flickr page here or on the left sidebar.