Automator Error
You may be wondering why the photo content on this blog has been…lacking, lately. Well, part of it has to do with my method for uploading pictures. I made some workflows using Automator so that I basically dropped raw photos in a folder on my desktop, ran the custom application, and uploaded the contents of the output folder to my server space. It automatically resized, duplicated, made thumbnails, renamed everything sequentially, and dropped the extension to lowercase (just a nitpick that I prefer). Well, the RENAME function is now busted on Automator, provided you want to specify the name you are changing the file to at the time you’re changing it…which is sort of the point for me. And that’s a ridiculously simple thing to be broken. It’s an insanely basic function. I thought it was strange…until I ran some searches that turned up two threads (here and here) on Apple’s discussion boards. Sheesh. The best thing? One of the users contributing pointed out that Apple has acknowledged the problem - that they are aware of it. Seriously - go look at the official downloads page for Automator. See that on the right? Yes - it’s the same disclaimer I’ve reproduced here. Unbelievable. The rename function is busted. Sad.
On a positive note, a few minutes of tinkering led to the first Rocking in Hakata Widget! Ha ha. Yay! 
Click for the full size previews, like normal.
Anyone who has Mac OS X Tiger or Leopard and knows what the dashboard is and how to use it, and who also feels like downloading and installing the widget for use, be my guest! (DOWNLOAD!) I think that simply subscribing to the RSS feed is easier, though. 
But it was still cool to make a widget.