Cafe Bucky

I remember exactly where I was 25 years ago, when I heard that Lennon had been shot. I was in a college bookstore with my friend Stephanie. We didn’t want to believe the radio.

Since then, I’ve been up and down 72nd street plenty of times, and stopped in Strawberrry Fields from time to time to think for a moment. There’s a great cafe (La Fortuna) on 71st that John & Yoko used to go. It’s still there.

I miss John, and wonder what he’d have to say about the political idiocy swirling about these days. I think I saw him once in the 70’s, when he was in his L.A. period. It was in the Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard. Sure looked like him.

There are tons of Beatles/John songs that I could say are my fave, depending on the day and mood. I’ll leave off thinking about the lyrics to “In My Life”. [I had posted them earlier, but I am not real clear on what constitutes "fair use", so I'm going to remove them for the time being]

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A simple spin-off of my work on FlexiPhoto is now available! I wrote a wholly client side photo gallery for Susan Price to use, and all of the JavaScript will get used in an upcoming release of FlexiPhoto (in one of the UIs).

Canned Photo Gallery is JavaScript driven. It does not use server side languages or databases. It just depends on filling out paths for photos, and defining captions for each one. No thumbnnails! This is for straightforward browsing of groups of photos.

I’ve provided a Demo Gallery.

It has a slideshow mode, and several keyboard commands:

• ‘n’, right-arrow, down-arrow, or space: next image
• ‘p’, left-arrow, up-arrow: previous image
• ’s’: start / stop slideshow

To slow down the slideshow rate, change the value of “slideShowDelay” in the JavaScript file. I spent the morning testing that aspect, and kept speeding it up… There’s also a bit in there for handling arrow keys in Safari. It works pretty well for me (doesn’t double the key). I’ve only tested this on the Mac with Safari and Firefox. I’ve heard there’s a problem or two on Win MSIE. Will check it out.

One of the ways this will tie back into FlexiPhoto is through the “Get Photo” feature.

A tip of the hat to John Oxton for some CSS ideas.