For the past year or so, I’ve been using Gallery for running my photo gallery. However, I felt that I wasn’t really utilising many of the features that it had to offer, and that it was perhaps a bit too much of an overkill – all I wanted was something that displays photos; something lightweight.
So, I decided to write my own from scratch. Well, not entirely from scratch, since I’ve integrated (a rather heavily modded) Lightbox into it.
The resulting PHP code is just 138 lines long, and chews up a lot less resources than Gallery. I also think it looks a bit tidier.
Anyway, take a look at it here. I’ve also added a few more albums to the gallery.
Feel free to comment about the new layout and please provide any suggestions on how you think it can be improved.
As most (if not all) of you know by now, the Lane Cove Tunnel was opened for public use around midday yesterday. Since there is a one month toll-free period, I decided to give it a try on my way to church. Here are my thoughts on the (rather short and uneventful) trip…
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A number of people have remarked that the now-previous name for this site – “Minimalistic Loquacity” – didn’t really seem appropriate given the contents.
Well, that was because I came up with that name before there was actually content. I’ve now decided to change it to “Scribem” – based on the Latin verb “scribo”: “to write”, since this site is essentially a collection of writings.
Whilst it’s now more appropriate, I’m not sure what remarks I’ll get this time now that the name has been changed. I guess you can’t please everyone…
Last Sunday (Harbour bridge anniversary), my family, Keith and Chris had dinner after church in the city at a sushi train type place called Ippon Sushi. After my experience there I cannot help but write a review on it…
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Wanna try a nice, Korean restaurant in Eastwood? Good for a quiet dinner for two or more. Well, here is a review for you. Last Saturday, Keith and I tried a Korean restaurant recommended by Grace and Chris. Funnily enough, it was on the Chinese side of the station, so Keith and I, wrongly driving to the ‘Korean’ side had to go back across the bridge to the more ‘familiar’ side :p.
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Having been around a few years in youth ministry, I see several of my Christian friends burn out around me. Sometimes it takes the form of changing churches, changing services, changing ministries, or not doing any formal ministry. There is nothing wrong with those things, I’m more interested in the psychological, physical aspects of burnout and how it’s not good in the long term.
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I’ve just posted up some photos from our outing to Viv’s place up in my photo gallery.
There are still about a month’s worth of photos that I’ve yet to process, so stay tuned for more updates…