Creating an AJAX Image Carousel

I happened to be looking for a better way to show a preview of my web albums when I came across Prototype-UI which is a suite of user-interface components. Their carousel component was just want I need to spruce up my site design. The only problem was that documentation on the site is quite sparse and it took me a while to get things sorted out.

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Crossroads

New year, new me. I can’t help but be excited about change. But in order for change to happen I have to push myself out of this self imposed slump of monotony. It’s scary having to make a decision about ones future because of the fear of failure – something that I have let rule too many of my decisions in the past.

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Comment Spam

The SPAM bots have finally found my site. I figured it was only a matter of time before the fact that I allowed for anonymous comments would be exploited. So I decided to implement the CAPTCHA system them I used for my registration page. Hopefully, this small little adjustment will be enough to divert the bots attention to other sites.

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Decided on a hosting provider

It’s was sad day, but my server finally died on me. Unfortunatly, I just don’t have the money to replace it so I decided it was time to get a hosting provider. It was really difficult to decide on a provider because I was so used to having total control over my box. Plus, I like to live on the edge and have the latest and sometimes experimental versions of software. With all this in mind, I settled on HostingRails.com.

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Twittering with the iPhone

Twitter is a micro-blogging website were you post status updates of 140 characters of less. When it was announced in March of 2006 it seemed rather pointless, who cares what the hell you are doing or eating? Of course this was during my technology detachment phase where I wished to remain as unavailable as possible – if I actually answered my phone when you called me back then, you were very very lucky. Now that I have the iPhone, I have turned over a new leaf and realized just how cool Twitter is. It’s funny how much I really do care what people are eating for dinner!

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