I went for a walk today and came across this sign.

I figured some shots from 4 years ago down in Colorado would be good to use in testing out the Simple-Viewer photo gallery plugin.

I discovered the PicLens Firefox Plugin today and was impressed with its abilities to pull photos from a Picasa

Web Album or Flickr collection and on the fly create a fully 3D photo browser.

From the website:

PicLens provides an immersive full-screen experience for viewing photos on the supported sites listed below and on sites that support Media RSS.

Sites that support the PicLens Firefox Plugin

Apparently there is a plugin that will enable its use with Wordpress as well, but it requires PHP 5 which I don’t have on my hosting platform right now. I may give it a spin at a later date.

I upgraded the Wordpress installation on this blog to version 2.5 today.  There are more changes in this update than in any previous one that I’ve encountered.  My favorite is the media browser that allows you to view all your uploaded audio/images/video in a very elegant way.  Of course the entire admin section has been re-designed.  It is much cleaner and loads faster, though it took me a few minutes to find some of the common features, since I didn’t know where to look.

Overall very impressed.  For its simple elegance, Wordpress remains my favorite Content Management System to work with.

Yesterday evening and this morning our church enjoyed the company of a number of SMBI students who are on their Western tour singing at various churches here on the West Coast. I had wonderful conversations with some of the students and particularly enjoyed meeting blogging friend, Hans Mast.

The music was absolutely beautiful, but more importantly, it really focused on the importance of each one of us going out and sharing Christ with others. I was challenged and deeply blessed.

I didn’t shoot any video, but this is a similar performance of the song Days of Elijah that the group shared with us.

For anyone happening to read this blog living in the Western US, I’ve included their remaining itinerary below: