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qr codes

casey — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:45:07 +0000

QR codes are also known as “quick response” codes. They are popping up all over the place lately, due to the influx of smartphones able to capture the code, interpret it, and follow its instructions – either open a URL, send an email, add a contact, or send a text message. Here is some more info from wikipedia on qr codes.

Here’s the QR code for my photography site:

You can change the colors to match your branding, but make sure there’s still enough contrast so mobile devices can easily find and scan it. To make a QR code, you can search google for paid and free services. I used The ZXing Project‘s generator. Fill out the form above, and choose LARGE so you can resize it easily to fit your needs, and download it to your computer.

To embed it on your website, it’s just the same as uploading an image. Think about where you want to put the info (in a sidebar? On every page? footer?), and upload it using your favorite FTP client. The one sized above is 350px/350px – I am going to put it in my sidebar and make it smaller.

To read yours and others’ QR codes: look on your smartphone for a QR app. There are a bunch of free ones out there, and the one I found that works nicely for my iPhone is QR Code City. Install it on your iPhone and when you come across one of these qr codes, launch the application and aim the camera at it until the code registers.

For Android – check out this I just googled just now: Appbrain.com‘s quickmark barcode scanner link.

You can put this code anywhere – your business card, if you have a storefront, print it as a sticker and put it on your door, put it in your email advertisements/mailing lists – just make sure there’s sufficient contrast and that the background is white – the white is part of the code.

Happy scanning.

day 111: I may die now, but it will be as a happy woman

casey — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:13:21 +0000

My summer is pretty much set. I’m taking two research collaborations this summer and just got an assistantship working on a pretty cool project so I’m on an academic high. I’m totally stoked about my own research, which is starting to well and truly take shape. Amazing what a year in a PhD program will do for you – kick you around, beat you up, and leave you feeling a smidge smarter than when you first started.

Just a smidge, though, don’t want my head to get big or anything.

Today, two presentations and a paper. I should really be in bed now but I’m not. Alas. I got a new-to-me camera in the mail, the Canon EOS 3, a pro film body. The battery was dead, so I headed out to Walmart to pick up a new battery for it and ended up getting stuff for the kids’ easter baskets.

Pictures I took today: the bright Staples sign when I ran in to buy some golf pencils for Josh’s class to have something to write their evaluations with, and somehow ended up with new pens. Oops. Also, a portrait of me and Josh.

day 110: the final push

casey — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:54:48 +0000

Matthew had a hard time getting out of the car for school today – just burst into tears and melted into a puddle. Poor kiddo.

Lindsey had her follow up doctor visit and it’s confirmed. Hello asthma! She’s now got a spiffy nebulizer and here we go for treatments every 4 hours.

Pictures I took today:
- sunset
- and one I can’t remember!

day 109: scones or scones?

casey — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:15:33 +0000

Today my last class for one of my seminars was held at my in-laws’ house. Kathy served up some delicious lime scones and tiny chocolate muffins that were awesome. Good times, good times.

I took two pictures today – one of our group around the table and then one of Matthew tonight in the bathtub.

Now, I am in the neverending journey of grading. Save me.

day 108: bring it, film

casey — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:45:58 +0000

Starting tomorrow and lasting until I’m done with this roll of film (there’s about 12 exposures on it, so a little less than a week, if I do two shots a day), I am going to be using this, well, piece of crap toy camera to document my days. I’ll blog about the picture I took and then once I get them developed, I’ll go back in and add the images.

links of interest:
Holga microsite
Lomography.com
Wiki on Holga
Buy a Holga and get funky.

day 107: friends and frozen creamy goodness

casey — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:47:53 +0000

We met up with Liz and Sam today (or, Yiz and Sham) to enjoy a delicious frozen dairy product. Matthew ran around like a maniac and growled at Sham, while Lindsey ignored them, which is better than what she used to do, which was burst into tears and bawl. Baby steps.

And this is of her being cranky for no apparent reason. The trials and tribulations of a toddler.

day 106: when the power’s out…

casey — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:02:15 +0000

…the real playing begins. It’s all fun and game til someone loses an eye.

Then it’s just fun.

day 105: a day in the life

casey — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 03:11:21 +0000

Today:
7AM – wake up with hacking cough. Argh.
7:30AM – coax slacker kids from bed, and get them ready against their will for daycare and school. Serve breakfast. Urge children to eat. Threaten with removing marbles if one does not stop poking the other and vice versa.
8:00AM – hit the road for school and daycare!
8:10AM – curse (not-so-silently) under my breath at traffic management in Tallahassee (red light madness!).
8:25AM – drop Matthew off and hop on highway to bring Lindsey to Jessie’s.
8:45AM – arrive at Jessie’s to have girl clinging to me and being fussy. C’est la vie. Hang out for a few minutes and admire Baby Lemon.
9:00AM – leave and head to the bank.
9:30AM – (see above re: traffic management and Tallahassee)
9:45AM – buy more oil (for the mysterious leak in the car), buy more washer fluid at store. Forget to buy Josh cough drops.
10:15AM – finish pouring oil in car and fluid in tank and go home to drop Josh off at school (this is one sick dude!)
10:45AM – return home, check email, hop in shower and rush, rush, rush.
11:30AM – run to Jessie’s house to fetch Lindsey.
12:10PM – TRAFFIC URGH – meet with classmates for study session.
1:00PM – break for ice cream! Yay for ice cream socials!
2:00PM – stalk director of department for a signature, then head upstairs to work on a project with classmate.
3:15PM – head over to Williams to watch Josh get his award for teaching!

4:30PM – head home for a few minutes to get some refreshments and head out to dinner with the Bapus.
5:45PM – dinner with the Bapus

7:00PM – home again, bathtime for kiddos, stories and made-up songs by Matthew involving Popeye the Sailor Man, spinach, and Christmas presents.
8:00PM – watch an episode of The Corner
9:30PM – edit pictures and marvel at my life.

I am a busy person, and even though these kids take up time in my life I could use elsewhere to be a better student, photographer, writer, athlete (one day soon, I will rejoin the world of athletics), but I am the student and photographer I am because of these kids. They make me a better person.

day 104: a very full day

casey — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:04:00 +0000

This morning, after the obligatory childcare shuffle, I got my hair done at the Green Peridot in midtown. Devin made me look like a million bucks – at least until the humidity did me in on Landis Green during the ice cream social and I put my hair up.

Between classes, Lenese and I took a walk down to Chili’s to get some soup and we spotted chalkings that say “YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL” – this has to be my favorite campaign, ever.

Good days, good days.

day 103: sick

casey — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:59:11 +0000

The sick marches on. Josh is the last of our fearsome four to fall to the ill. Lindsey was diagnosed today with a double ear infection and the wheezing, always the wheezing. Sigh.

Some cuddles from the two sickest in the house now.