X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=blog%2F2009%2FApril;h=f9358751b99d3948774b6ab49028f19546d1641d;hb=c0551580d02875027da6bcf941add376efd7a684;hp=b577629cd405fba78ce7bd9824bb3f455254ba9a;hpb=d661a91d25c803343ae8ac0a98d8efb24fe20583;p=wiki.git diff --git a/blog/2009/April b/blog/2009/April index b577629..f935875 100644 --- a/blog/2009/April +++ b/blog/2009/April @@ -6,12 +6,12 @@ TODO ==== GEEK UPDATE: A productive flight ==== -On the flight back to Europe, I spent some time hacking on [[GeekiGeeki]] to add goodies such as +On the flight back to Europe, I spent some time hacking on [[GeekiGeeki]] to add little goodies such as - * a grid view for photos - * automatic generation of human-readable link tags from wiki URLs - * a common parser for argument lists such as "foo|bar=1|baz=3" - * the ability to specify css style for links and inline objects, which you can use to create thumbnails floating on the right or left + * a grid view for photos; + * automatic generation of human-readable link tags from wiki URLs; + * a common parser for argument lists such as "foo|bar=1|baz=3"; + * the ability to specify css style for links and inline objects, which I'm using to produce floating thumbnails on the side of pages These should make the wiki markup much lighter. As usual, these additions resulted in simplification of the codebase rather than code bloat :-) @@ -35,13 +35,13 @@ TODO ==== Guided tour ==== +{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/waterfalls_tour/00038.jpg|maxwidth=640|class=thumbright|The Yutaki Waterfalls}} + Pictures of our day-long [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/waterfalls_tour]] are now online. Our friendly guide, the Buddhist monk whose name I forgot, answered many of our pending questions about Japanese traditions and religion. Hiking through these sacred mountains and woods was an enjoyable experience. -{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/waterfalls_tour/00038.jpg|maxwidth=640|class=thumbright|The Yutaki Waterfalls}} - TODO: assemble a good video from all the scenes I took along the way ==== Nikko Temple Area ==== @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ One would expect to grow bored of Shinto and Buddhist temples after seeing many all over Japan, but visiting the Nikko temple area was once again an extraordinary experience. And I could finally spot a few [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miko]]s too! -{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/world_heritage_site/00096.jpg|maxwidth=800}} +{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/world_heritage_site/00096.jpg|maxwidth=640}} === April 27th ===