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iPhoto2Gallery and iApp plugins

I mentioned iPhoto2Gallery a few days ago, and man, it is the greatest. It’s waay faster than using the in-browser post for Gallery; it may even be faster than adding pics via the command line.

Alas, though, for the stalled-out iPhoto to Blog plugin. While the developer’s teaser for a new version screenshot implies awareness of the bugs and UI problems with the plugin as it stands, the work-in-progress looks a bit like a work in holding, as in the comments for the site he notes a new beta will be out ‘soon’ – in February.

Oh well!

Looks like it’s time to go back to the MovableType-Gallery integration hunt.

Speaking of Mac plugins, googling for iChat plugins doesn;t seem to bring anything up, although iChatUSBCam appears to extend the functionality of iChat in a very plugin-like way. Poking around ADC didn’t yield anything in the way of an SDK.

iChat Streaming Icon also modifies iChat functionality. However, beyond these two apps, I am not finding much in the area.

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Hole in my Kitchen

There’s a hole in the kitchen this morning; our circa nineteen-seventies dishwasher gave up the ghost, and today a new one will be installed.

In the hole, there’s some archeology. The apartment building we live in is one of the twenty-or-so scattered around Capitol Hill in the nineteen-twenties by Frederick Anhalt, a character’s character.

This building employs a decorative rusticated plaster finish over lath for our interior walls. In the hole, unpainted and painted plaster informs us that the original color of our kitchen’s walls is a pale sea-foam green, the color of Errol Flynn’s tights in Robin Hood, released about ten years after this building was constructed.

The pattern of the paint indicates that the original cabinetry was removed, I would guess at the time the dishwasher was first installed probably in the early seventies.

The floor appears to have three layers of tiling – two linoleum and one that I can’t make out.