Ryan Imel

Category Archives: Photos

The Fourth of July with Ashley

By Ryan

July 7, 2008 – 4:18 pm

I wouldn’t call myself a patriotic person by any means. But when your girlfriend comes in for the weekend, and you get to spend the whole day together, it’s a pretty special time. And since she was around, we decided to head over to the Roanoke fireworks with my dad, aunt, and grandma.
Oh, and we [...]

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Ivy the Puppy in Illinois

By Ryan

April 14, 2008 – 12:03 am

Last summer, when visiting Ashley’s family in Illinois, we met their friend’s new puppy Ivy.

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Turkey Festival, Fall 2007

By Ryan

April 13, 2008 – 5:32 pm

Ashley and I attended something called a Turkey Festival last year over in her hometown in Illinois.

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My Time in Chicago, August 2007

By Ryan

April 13, 2008 – 3:21 am

I attended An Event Apart in Chicago last August.

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On Storing and Sharing Photographs

By Ryan

April 13, 2008 – 1:01 am

When I started using WordPress about two years ago, I was interested in the platform specifically for the utility I saw in it. At the time I didn’t have the slightest idea about how to construct a system for managing content. I had begun to play with PHP includes, but that only gave me a [...]

Also posted in Internet | Tagged Flickr, Open Source, WordPress | Comments (2)

Turkey Festival Photos Up

By Ryan

August 2, 2007 – 9:33 am

I finally took a few seconds to fix up and upload the photos I took a number of weeks back at the annual Turkey Festival in Washington, Illinois. I was visiting Ashley and her family for the weekend and took the new camera out for a few quick shots. It was pretty cool, and there [...]

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- Knowing what an acronym is—the what, the why, the true purpose of it in practice as well as conversation—is important. Knowing what the acronym stands for is only for geeks.
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- Thought this post was an interesting look at good and bad design decisions. Turns out it originated (sort of) at Brand New.
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- As I've mentioned before, I'm on a regular posting schedule over at Daily Blog Tips now. A post of mine talking about widening your blog to take advantage of larger average screen sizes went up today. There is a decent discussion starting up on the topic, which will be worth checking out if that's your kind of thing.
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- Westmont Public Library in Illinois has (as far as I know) just pioneered an innovative way for libraries to use Flickr.
  
  Someone over there is thinking. They're publishing photos of new released books with notes attached to each book that link back to reserve that book on their website. Awesome.
  
  Another great use of Flickr notes that I can remember seeing was this one featuring a lot of web 2.0 logos and notes linking to the relevant website. Any others you know of?
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- The official location of my personal blog has changed from http://blog.aspiringindie.com to a new and (hopefully more) permanent location: ryanimel.com.
  
  I've had issues with name-based personal domains in the past, but I figured I'd swallow it already and go with what seemed the easiest choice. And here we are. The old blog location will still be used, but as the official Aspiring Indie Company Blog. Exciting, right? Maybe just for me.
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