Kevin Bridges

I just whipped up a new site after climbing Humboldt Peak. The site is called http://14er.kevinbridges.org/ and has links to some useful information including Picasa web Photo Albums and Slideshows. I'm posting the announcements here until I get a block running on this site to communicate with the 14er site.

• You can read the Trip Report
• Read about Humboldt Peak
• Visit the site (your username for this site will work on the 14er site)

Nailed the first 14er of the season over the weekend and posted the images in the Torrey's Photo Album. The weather could not have been better and I've come to the stark realization that my physical conditioning is in need of improvement. That's ok though because there are roughly 53 more Colorado 14ers out there waiting to be climbed. This is my 4th ascent of Torrey. As soon as I am complete with the next version of the Picasa Module I'm going to create a subdomain specifically for trip reports.

It seems to me that someone who hypothesizes that a supreme being doesn't exist is forming their hypothesis without any scientific evidence to support that hypothesis. Science requires empirical knowledge… does that atheist support their conclusion with empirical data?

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Picasa
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Name: Picasa module
Author: Kevin Bridges
Drupal: 5.1
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DESCRIPTION:

The Picasa module is a simple module that utilizes Google's Picasa API to
display Web Albums and Photos as they appear in your account at
http://picasaweb.google.com/ ... it is advisable to have publicly viewable

I needed to apply the concepts outlined at http://drupal.org/node/101748 to create a listing of node teasers that contained thumbnail images. That article was written for 4.7 and was useful, but not completely helpful for Drupal 5.1 which I am running. Here's a way to create a teaser list with thumbnails ... keep in mind I am also not a Drupal expert, but a Drupal learner. This is just what worked for me.

My laptop downloaded microsofts patch for the animated cursor vulnerability in windows Vista this morning. It told me I needed to reboot the machine for the changes to take effect.

Here's a trip report for Mount Galbraith. I've been playing with some of the Google API's and think I've automated the translation of data from the gps and camera directly to the web. Galbraith is a very easy trail that is decent for warming up to larger items like the 14ers we will be documenting. Make sure to read the full blog posting and not just the summary to see the maps and satellite imagery.

I'm not going to write very much about this particular trail because the main focus has been integrating the different technologies into a seamless platform deliverable by this blog. The general concept is to be able to stop and take a picture that translates into the map below complete with gps coordinates and clickable pictures. It has to be totally automated for when we start doing the 14ers again. I'll upload the raw gps information soon as well.

If you'd like to view this complete with a waypoint selector Click Here. The data file for Google Earth can be downloaded here. The raw images are stored in a Picasa Album and are available at high resolution.

Last night the weather was pleasant and calm. Woke up this morning to a bit of a snowstorm that reminded me I was in Colorado. I had to be a dork and take a picture of my Jeep since it is the first snowfall I've had it in ;P

Heres a step by step tutorial on how to install Drupal 5.1 tailored for a standard LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) setup. The servers I use for hosting have cPanel so these instructions are written to use it.

I had the unfortunate need to pick up a new laptop because my other one took a dive. I needed it to perform business functions and could not find a store that sold a Linux or XP based machine for a reasonable price. I have been attempting to set up a standard php, mySQL, Apache configuration with phpMyAdmin and Eclipse installed. I have been fighting with this operating system for over 14 consecutive hours at this point and completely hate the experience I have gone through. My last hurdle before I went to sleep was getting phpMyAdmin working correctly.