Spider web   9 Oct 2014 Spider web    9 Oct 2014     
 
 
 
 
 

Autumn is spider time on the island. The spider webs re-appear each morning and ensnare me as I walk. Actually, after a couple times I saw the pattern. The ones attached to the house block my path so I brush them away, but I leave the others be.

I envy a spider's opportunity to re-spin its web almost daily. Does a spider tweak its web design based on what it has learned over the course of twenty-four hours? I would like to be able to whip out a clean-sheet-of-paper re-write of my code at will. 

I've made progress adapting the land trust web site to iOS. With one change, replacing max-width and min-width with max-device-width and min-device-width, jdflandtrust.ca looks ok on iOS 8's safari and chrome. The downside is as expected, the site is no longer responsive on the pc which isn't good so I've more to do. While the site was opened up on the table I took the opportunity to simplify the mobile ui a bit. Now it looks good on iOS 8 though it somehow looks less good on Android. 

While in the app store I ran across Transmit iOS, an ftp client. I installed it to push photos from phone to blog. I know that if I used an off-the-shelf solution like Wordpress this would be easy but what would be the fun in that. Of course there is a price to be paid when you do it yourself and in this case I've yet to find the magic words to make the iPhone talk to the server. 

105 mm, f/8.

 
 
 
 
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