Rec Guide

The Trinity Journal publishes the Trinity County Recreation Guide, but their online version isn't very usable. So i made an improved version.
Also, i noticed when i got my new computer [which still doesn't have a working Verizon wireless modem, after 4 long contacts with their Techs - computers are so complicated that the Techs can't possibly know everything either, they're reduced to dumbly following thru diagnostic trees on their own computer screens, same as us ignorant folks] that the main photo on Gallery pages (example: Weaverville Fire Dept) didn't display right in Internet Explorer. (It was fine in Firefox.) Checking, i found that when i'd originally done the code, i couldn't get IE and Firefox to both display the main photo the same way, so i wrote 2 versions of the code, 1 for IE, 1 for everything else. I hate that! That was for IE version 7. But my new computer has IE 8: apparently Microsoft fixed the problem in version 8, but my code treats the IE browser as if it's still broke! OK, so take out the exception, right?. But version 7 is still out there! So now i have to consider not only the browser, but the version of the browser. Arghhh!

just another friday eve

at the LaGrange cafe'...

windows7

I hate new operating systems, cuz they change the look and function of so many things. To do the simplest thing, i must re-discover the means to do it. Today i complete transfer of all the files from the old computer. I add many beautiful photos by Carol Fall to the Visit! Gallery (which, you may recall, doesn't yet work with the Internet Explorer browser). And i find that under Windows7: 1) the menu bar folds around on itself (easily fixed on mine by making the page a little wider, but how does it look to others?), 2) the main photo on www.wfdca.org 'Gallery' pages no longer shows.

Old Modem, New 'Puter

Struggled all day trying to get the Verizon Wireless modem working on the new computer, no success.

Visit! Gallery

Started a photo 'Gallery' for 'Visit!'. So far: works well on Firefox browser, but some issues with Internet Explorer. Working on it. So far: the photos are just some i took today. Eventually: i want the Gallery to be a place anyone can upload their own to.

New computer

My present computer, new in 2005, is physically falling apart. Reluctantly i got a new one, knowing it would be a nitemare transferring everything over and making it actually work in a new operating system (Windows7). Sure enough, my Verizon wireless modem (which i depend on for internet access everywhere beyond coffee shops and WFD) doesnt work. I spend hours on it, including long time on phone with a Verizon tech, who in desperation finally tries to blame it on Dell. Regardless, i'm the one screwed.

TEDC website

Talked to the Trinity Economic Development Corp board about re-doing their website. Seems they need a plan first. We'll talk again next month.

My 2nd Place

I go back & forth between Covington Mill (see the blog, 'Cumftably Numb') and this place in Weaverville. It's less of a struggle that way, especially come winter.

The view:

Saturday

A history talk at Trinity Center. Lyn Scott, life-long resident, showed excellent-quality photos from 1955 of what Trinity Center, Stringtown, and the productive ranch- and forest-lands of the Trinity River valley were like, before (in hind-sight) stupidity transformed it to the present vast tragic mud-flat.

i love the photos i took this day (and this place)...








Evening, more fine music at that undisclosed location.

Real Estate

Added Real Estate to 'Visit!', per TEDC request.
Likewise added Textile Traditions, which somehow i hadn't noticed before.

That eve, world class music at an undisclosed location.

News

Updated the Weaverville Fire Dept news with photo of today's emergency response...

Places

The present 'Visit!' site is all individual-business-oriented. I realized it needs to tell more about Trinity in general. Hence: Worked all day on a 'Places' concept, work in progress...

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Fixed the text-color bug. Fiddled with misc.

Getting Here

Spent all day working on Google maps to show folks the various approaches into Trinity County, see...

Added a zoom-control to the 'Virtual Tour' map, this because there are so many business sites concentrated together that it's hard to view them separately unless you zoom way in. In that process, discovered a bug that makes text yellow on the pop-ups if there are multiple paragraphs in the descriptions; still working on it.

The other day i discovered something i've been hearing about: Google's 'Street-Level View'. Incredible! Check this for Weaverville... Using your arrow keys, you can actually 'fly' down the street, looking freely left, right, behind, and it's not just the main highways but many Trinity side streets as well. (I described this free techno-miracle to some local folks; they were merely bored, and criticized that Google addresses are often wrong. I don't think people appreciate how incredibly difficult actually DOing anything is.) My plan is to add this feature to a mapping of the 'Towns of Trinity' (a 'town', i've decided, being any place with a Post Office, ie: Weaverville, Douglas City, Lewiston, Trinity Center, Junction City, Big Bar, Burnt Ranch, Salyer, Hayfork, Wildwood (which is accepted by USPS, even tho technically the place is considered Platina, of Shasta County), Hyampom, Mad River, Ruth, and finally Zenia (even tho Zenia is now ONLY a post office, plus the vacant old store)).


Also discovered Panoramio.com, which allows folks to upload/download photos by latitude/longitude, so my plan is to add links from the Towns of Trinity to Panoramio. For example: photos of Weaverville. (Its only fault is that those folks uploading aren't always very exact in specifying the photo location. Hence at Big Bar, we see folks driving thru a hollow giant redwood.)

Talked to Geoffrey Beebe again re his plan for a 'Virtual Tour' of Weaverville which includes entering each store and looking around. He wants me to do it. Well, i can, as long as it's a series of separate photos, but he's imagining it as the Google Street Level View taken INSIDE, and i don't know how to do THAT.

Weaverville Saturday Nite

The Art Cruise, first saturday of every month:
Folks at the Chamber of Commerce...

Main Street Gallery...

Highland Art Center...

4 of the '5 Windows'...

A new venue, Hawk Photography...

And fine live music at an undisclosed location...

It's a great town! I am so lucky.

Worked all day today fiddling with the Trinity Chamber website.

A Lovely Site for TCAC

Earlier this week I spent two volunteer half-days with Jill Richards, Trinity County Arts Council Admin Asst, writing specs for their new website; [this ironic, as i'd submitted a proposal to do the site for them, including content, for free last December(!), but was turned down! (Embarrassing or what?)] Then another half day on my own finalizing the document and sending it off to Matthew Brady of Sage Website Designs, a talented web designer who likewise will be doing the work gratis; his proposal, and a revised homepage header.

Spent last half of the day re-doing the location map and contact info for TrinityCounty.com/Visit. The map's especially cool: i figured out how to draw the county boundary on a Google Map.

Compost Toilets

I was introduced to a dedicated fellow who does international development work in Uganda; he was very interested in the compost toilets i did in Fiji; so i put a bunch of photos and narrative online to maybe help him (& others?) out.