Still more Bling comin’ at ya. Hopefully the site’s a bit easier on the eyes now.

The photo in the title is one I took while playing around with my new 50mm f/1.8 Nikkor lens. With the right adapter the lens can be mounted in reverse and used as a pretty decent macro lens. I didn’t have the adapter so I just held the lens up to the camera body instead and started goofing around. When I saw that shot I immediately thought about using it on the site, and it seems to fit perfectly IMHO. Since then I’ve bought the reverse adapter ring (they’re dirt cheap on ebay) so I’ll be sharing some more of those shots in the near future on my Flickr page.

The Flickr page is another “news” item. I’ve had a Flickr account for a long time now but never really used it because of various limitations in Flickr. But now I realize that I just don’t want to deal with maintaining my own photo hosting software. Flickr is reasonably priced, has unlimited storage/bandwidth, and gets my shots into an environment where real photographers might actually look at them and give feedback.

Finally, I thought I should mention that I upgraded across not 1, not 2, but 3 WordPress versions (from 2.0.something to 2.3.2) in a matter of minutes thanks to subversion. My installation is a subversion checkout of the WP developers’ repository, so all I needed to do was svn switch to the 2.3.2 tag to upgrade. I was able to use svn diff to find the minor tweaks I’d made to some of the WP files and svn revert them once I determined that they weren’t needed anymore. This is definitely the way to maintain a website. Happily, my theme only needed one minor adjustment to work in 2.3.