Site Complete (sort of)!

So after slacking off for a number of months, I figured I'd at least seal up some loose ends (if only temporarily) and link the remaining top bar links to 3rd party tools. Most notably, 5Brew currently links to my Hopville profile and 5Pics links to my public Picasa album. Excitingly, I did finish the Hi5 page. So at least for now, there are no dead links and the site is somewhat tied together.

n<p>Fear not though, I still have some plans in the work for the site, mostly around pictures and videos. With the purchase of a EyeFi card in the near future, I’m hoping to set up an in-house gallery that automatically posts photos taken from my DSLR via FTP. I have a pretty clear idea as to how to accomplish it technically, I’m just thinking through what I want to do regarding pictures that are automatically uploaded that I don’t want on the interwebs. And no, it’s not what you’re thinking- not because I’m afraid of uploading obscene photos, but because I often take a lot of pictures of the same subject, just using different exposures. I typically end up deleting half of them, so if they end up being automatically uploaded, it’ll be a lot of noise to sort through to see the good stuff.</p> n<p> nAdditionally, I’m trying to think of what additional content I want up on the site, as of right now, it’s a bit sparse. Okay, so it’s really sparse. But I want to navigate the waters carefully, and not fall to the sinister temptation that plagues so many of my generation today, and make this site gaggingly narcisstic. It’s a fine line between simply having one’s own personal web site and being clinically diagnosed as a megalomaniac (fine, not that close, but it is an issue). Furthermore, I’d consider introducing mechanisms for allowing visitors to post content, but what’s the point, now that everyone and his dog have a Google+, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn account and can upload his latest turd (metaphorically speaking of course… well except for sites like RateMyPoo.com, in which case it is quite literal) for the world to see. Plus, who would post anything up here anyway? I have no illusions that Matt5lot10.com isn’t going to become your next homepage (in fact, if it did, that’d be a little creepy), so I don’t think visitor or user-provided content is the way to go. I guess for now, humble Matt5lot10 will remain humble, where I can occassionally rant or have a play with some new api, open source tool, or code that I’ve wanted to try out.</p> n<p> nSo I guess the next steps for now are ambiguous. I’ll probably include a links page at some point, and maybe dress up some of the existing pages. I think the next task will be to create a simple back-end that let’s me post posts using a rich text editor, rather than just punch these posts in via phpMyAdmin. Heck, maybe I’ll create an android app. Why not?</p>