welcome to spiceland. » Site http://spiceland.me/b never heiding from the truth. Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:30:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 New Software http://spiceland.me/b/2009/01/18/new-software/ http://spiceland.me/b/2009/01/18/new-software/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:07:56 +0000 Erin http://thespicelands.com/b/?p=1461 Well, we’ve finally migrated completely off our own software. We just can’t compete with the likes of Google and WordPress, so we’re joining the masses. WordPress gives us much more flexibility in formatting and adding new content, as well as managing the old content. What do you think?

]]> http://spiceland.me/b/2009/01/18/new-software/feed/ 4 New Poll on the Right of this Page http://spiceland.me/b/2008/10/11/new-poll-on-the-right-of-this-page/ http://spiceland.me/b/2008/10/11/new-poll-on-the-right-of-this-page/#comments Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:02:26 +0000 Erin http://thespicelands.com/b/?p=598 The short: vote (on the side) for which photo gallery you like best.

(1) our old one

(2) new Google Picasa one

Now vote on the side.

Details:

I (Erin) am trying to come up with a way for us to more fluidly be able to manage our photos and share them. Google’s Picasa is a great photo management tool, and it can connect to Picasa Web Albums to publish photos to the web. I believe that we will be more likely to share photos more often if we had a one-click approach to uploading such as the one Google provides. Google’s Picasa and Picasa Web Albums also allow us to tag images, so you can search for people or keywords. Picasa Web Albums also generates an RSS feed of our gallery, so you can be notified when we upload new pictures.

There area few drawbacks, though. The photos would be stored at a maximum of 1600 pixels wide, though, which is only good enough for a 3×5. Of course, this is inconsequential if none of you are planning on ordering prints, and you can always email us to request hi-res versions of any picture you want bigger prints of.

Our current photo gallery, on the other hand, allows us to publish full-sized images, although we usually resize them to save space. We can’t tag images or notify you when we upload pictures.

What do you guys think?

]]> http://spiceland.me/b/2008/10/11/new-poll-on-the-right-of-this-page/feed/ 3 Google Homepage and Our RSS Feeds http://spiceland.me/b/2007/12/03/google-homepage-and-our-rss-feeds/ http://spiceland.me/b/2007/12/03/google-homepage-and-our-rss-feeds/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:29:28 +0000 Mike http://thespicelands.com/b/?p=553 Get the Flash Player to see this video. If you are seeing this from facebook or some other site, click on the link to watch the video on our site.

In this video:

* How to get a personalized Google homepage

* How to add our RSS feeds to automatically get our blog updates and updates from my camera. Use the following RSS feeds:

Our blog – http://thespicelands.com/blogdata/index.rss

Flickr – shutterspeedway’s flickr.com rss feed

]]> http://spiceland.me/b/2007/12/03/google-homepage-and-our-rss-feeds/feed/ 2 RSS Feeds http://spiceland.me/b/2007/10/02/rss-feeds/ http://spiceland.me/b/2007/10/02/rss-feeds/#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:46:56 +0000 Mike http://thespicelands.com/b/?p=544 Get the Flash Player to see this video. If you are seeing this from facebook or some other site, click on the link to watch the video on our site.

]]> http://spiceland.me/b/2007/10/02/rss-feeds/feed/ 0 new format for videos http://spiceland.me/b/2007/01/21/new-format-for-videos/ http://spiceland.me/b/2007/01/21/new-format-for-videos/#comments Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:16:04 +0000 Mike http://thespicelands.com/b/?p=505 In case you didn’t notice, we switched to using “flash” as the format for our videos. This is the same as YouTube and Google Video. Hopefully our videos will now be viewable by everyone. Please post comments to let us know wether it worked or not.

You will need the flash player to view them. Almost everyone has it installed already do you probably don’t have to do anything. If you don’t have it, you should be able to just click on where the video would be and it will install it quickly and easily.

]]> http://spiceland.me/b/2007/01/21/new-format-for-videos/feed/ 2 New Domain Name http://spiceland.me/b/2006/10/18/new-domain-name/ http://spiceland.me/b/2006/10/18/new-domain-name/#comments Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:27:16 +0000 Erin http://thespicelands.com/b/?p=495 We’ve put spicelands.org on the back burner. We are now using thespicelands.com as our main domain name! All your old links and bookmarks and email addresses will still work, so don’t worry about that. I just felt weird about having a .org domain name when we obviously aren’t an organization!

]]> http://spiceland.me/b/2006/10/18/new-domain-name/feed/ 2 no video blog this week http://spiceland.me/b/2006/09/25/no-video-blog-this-week/ http://spiceland.me/b/2006/09/25/no-video-blog-this-week/#comments Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:08:12 +0000 Mike http://thespicelands.com/b/?p=492 I could try to come up with some elaborate reason why there is no video post this week but its better to be honest … I just plumb forgot!

If you enjoy our video blogs, comment on this one and say so to encourage me not to forget again :-) The good news is that next week will be a double decker.

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http://home.thespicelands.com/cgi-bin/webcam.cgi

Be nice to others and if you see that there are several people trying to control it, take turns.

]]> http://spiceland.me/b/2006/08/23/spy-on-us-with-our-webcam/feed/ 2 Calling all WCHS Alumni! http://spiceland.me/b/2006/06/01/calling-all-wchs-alumni/ http://spiceland.me/b/2006/06/01/calling-all-wchs-alumni/#comments Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:23:55 +0000 Erin http://thespicelands.com/b/?p=473 I was looking for a website that the Class of 2000 grads were using to keep up with each other, and found that the only one anyone is using is Classmates.com, which costs money. I find that ridiculous, so I made my own! This is not only for 2000 grads, but anyone who graduated from WCHS since it first opened its doors! Just go to WayneCountyHighAlumni.com and add yourself. There are simple instructions on the first page, and I’m going to add a forum/bulletin board soon! Send this to everybody you know who went to WCHS. I’m really looking forward to getting back in touch with everyone!

My Profile

]]> http://spiceland.me/b/2006/06/01/calling-all-wchs-alumni/feed/ 3 Our New Layout http://spiceland.me/b/2006/02/26/our-new-layout/ http://spiceland.me/b/2006/02/26/our-new-layout/#comments Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:53:49 +0000 Mike http://thespicelands.com/b/?p=463 Check out our new layout! Erin finally spent some time putting together a well-made website, instead of that hack job we had going before! We moved the search box to the right, and added a jumpbox where you can quickly choose between categories. Or click “This Site’s Referrers” to see a list of websites that link to thespicelands.com and how many visitors we’ve gotten from them!

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