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I've already revamped my photo gallery to use the same look and feel as everything else on my site now.

But there's a small problem - now I want to add tags (topics) to my photos, and have pretty much the same functionality as I now have with my blog.

While the primary CGI that drives the main display was completely re-written, the interface I use to add captions to the photos is pretty much still the same old code, and might be a little harder to work with.

But I think I'll give it a go anyhow.

Please forgive me - I'm working on updating this. "This", of course, can mean different things. But what I mean is that I'm working on finishing my Grand Unification Project. What's that? Well, I'm finally bringing everything together. And finally making my blog public. It's done in Catalyst, everything else is plain CGI.

All this means is that you might find some things that don't work from time to time. If you encounter this, please excuse me. I'm only human. I can't know about every single bug. Yet.

So far, most of my blog has been updated. I even have a new version of my photos up and running. Even my resume has been somewhat updated... :)

Sweet.

It only took re-writing the thing from the ground up, switching out completely the modules I was using - but I finally managed to get that silly picture stripper/thumbnailer working again.

Were it not for Imager by Tony Cook or Email::MIME::Attachment::Stripper by Casey West (with my friend Yaakov recommending the former and perlmonks.org for the alternative to MIME::Parser) - I'd still be spinning my wheels.

During the debugging, I'd get MIME::Parser to appear to work, but then Image::Magick would stop working. Or MIME::Parser would fail me in strange and non-reproducibly ways but Image::Magick would faithfully render an incomplete image file.

But no more.

I've resolved to figure out why my photo uploader keeps cutting off my pictures I email from my phone.

It's driving me crazy - it used to work like clockwork. Snap a little photo with the phone, punch a few buttons, click click bang, and whaddaya know, my photoblog gets automatically updated. With a thumbnail and a picture that aren't broken.

I'm working on it as I write this, waiting for slow email to arrive at my server.

We'll see...

Ok, maybe you've noticed, maybe you haven't. (I won't chastise you for not checking my site every day since I've been back ;) I've updated a few things, and (perhaps what you've REALLY been waiting for) I've started adding some pictures. So far, I've got about 27 up, around 50 to go. Phew. And because it's late, I'm tired, so I didn't have the time to add descriptions.

Never fear, as soon as I type out my journal (which will be cake compared to futzing with all these pictures) - I'll add the descriptions to the pictures so you can tell exactly what the fuzzy things are you're supposed to be looking at ;)

Enjoy for now, and I'll continue to toil away :)