All the Pages Are My Days - the first 12 years
the (archived) online world of Mike Rodriquez 2002-2012
Occasionally I’m called upon for advice and tips related to using CSS to style web pages. The use of CSS, short for Cascading Style Sheets, is a modern and powerful design technique used to help separate the design of a web site from the site’s content. Style sheets control how a web site looks, but … Read more
Wow! It seems like just yesterday, armed with my new Canon Rebel XT and a couple of nice lenses, that I started the photoblog known as luminosity. And yet, here we are. That’s 183 photos, some from my archives, but many posted within days, if not hours, of having been taken. And though lacking the … Read more
I recently made some changes to luminosity both to make the site more appealing and to clean up some design loose ends. Given that I now have a wealth of luminosity images available at flickr, I setup a badge, similar to the ever-changing image display on the side of this blog. I was able to … Read more
In order to share the images from my photoblog, luminosity, with a larger audience, I decided to post them on Flickr. I recently uploaded all 176 photos that have been posted to luminosity over the past few months; I won’t update Flickr every time I post to luminosity but instead will occasionally post a catch-up … Read more
The evening of the day I read about Elena I had the opportunity to watch our grand-daughter perform at a school event. As a result of this tragic loss, I had a more heightened sense of awareness, and tried to remain totally in the moment and appreciate Moneka in the here and now. When we … Read more
I’ve joined the ranks of the podcasters, those who create multi-media content, typically voice, but more frequently including video, that is differentiated by its distribution method; podcasts are distributed via RSS. The podcast I created, when viewed from the web page hosting it, is simply a link to an mp3 file. Not a podcast. However, … Read more
It didn’t take too long for me to realize that if thumbnail archives were a good idea for luminosity’s date-based archives, they would be an even better idea for the category-based archives. The monthly archives could only have a maximum of 31 entries, where any particular category archive might contain many times that number of … Read more
I’ve forgotten where I saw this style of year-end review, but I like the approach, and so took a few minutes to put together my own year in review post, based on the entries to this site over the past year. Basically, how it works is, if you have a blog, you copy the beginning … Read more
Tag clouds are a relatively new way of representing the frequency of keyword usage for a given data set. The set may consist of a group of tagged photos, a group of blog postings, or any body of text or tagged data objects, for that matter. Words/tags that are used more often are displayed using … Read more
Inspired by A Daily Dose of Imagery, a site I’ve followed for a couple of years, and also by Hal Bergman, who I just discovered recently, and also motivated by my brand new awareness of photoblogs.org, I decided to create a new blog. luminosity is a photoblog, and that means the emphasis will be on … Read more