This post will serve two purposes today. The first is to write about out little adventure to Grey Rock in Deep Cove, the second to test out the lightbox portion of the Flickr Photo Album plugin for WordPress. I've been using the Flickr Photo Album plugin for WordPress for quite some time now, but mainly to allow me to easily integrate my Flickr photos into blog posts. A feature I have not looked at, until now, has been the use of a lightbox. Lightboxes (in terms of web sites) allow you to pop up a photo over-top of the regular content, this allows to show a larger photo to your visitors without changing your layout or redirecting them. Some people might dislike this, but others I find generally like the effect it creates. To check out the larger photos, just click on the photos below. A larger (800px wide) photo will … Continue Reading »

There are some local blogger meetups that happen on a regular basis here in Vancouver. One of which is called ThirdTuesday. ThirdTuesday normally happens on the third Tuesday of every month, though sometimes it can happen on other days of the week. It is a free meetup of Vancouver's communications and marketing sector who are interested in social media. Typically there is a guest speaker who will talk about a particular interesting topic. A large aspect of ThirdTuesday's, in my opinion, would be social networking, the meet and greet of other people who share similar interests in social media. Tuesday the 19th of May was the first time I attended a Vancouver ThirdTuesday. Recently they have been held at Republic, a bar/lounge located in the entertainment district of the downtown core, between Smithe and Nelson on Granville Street. I arrived just before 7:00pm and glad that the doors to Republic were open. John … Continue Reading »

I've been using Facebook for a while and I have seen them change the user interface (UI) numerous times. People hate it or they like it, but for me, the most recent change annoys me everyday and there seems to be no end. When Facebook changes something, we are all stuck with the change, no matter how many people complain about it, there seems to be no going back. I was okay with the first few UI changes as it seemed to make things a bit easier to use. Though the most recent change has been bugging me more than lately, namely to new additions: Highlights and Suggestions. Highlights and Suggestions Before the most recent UI change that Facebook made go live the suggestions only dealt with friends that you _might_ know. There are a bunch of people I know through other people but I am more acquaintances with them. I might have … Continue Reading »