Tag Archive: richard x. thripp

Scaling Back

By Richard X. Thripp at 2009-12-20T17:49:48Z in Personal Development, with these tags: beliefs, life, power, richard x. thripp, truth, 8 Comments. 355 words.

I renamed this site to “Thripp Photography” instead of “Brilliant Photography and Personal Development by Richard X. Thripp.” I also added disclaimers to articles including Egregious Failures, Becoming Evil, Dumb People, Smart People, and Smarter People, The Perks of Having a Job, and Becoming a Vegetarian. I’m not a vegetarian now as I’m eating fish again for protein and because it’s good for the mind. I feel awful that I’ve written articles that denigrate people, families, worklife, or society and I apologize to anyone I’ve misled or misdirected. I set myself up as an expert …

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More stuff:   Photo: Get Back    Putting Users First    Going on Vacation  

17 Lessons from 17 Years

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-08-21T09:06:50Z in Personal Development, with these tags: birthdays, courage, goals, humanity, lessons, life, lists, richard x. thripp, 1 Comment. 2,659 words.

This is my first post as a 17 year old. The pivotal birthday was 2008 August 17, a Sunday. My youth is just slipping away. :grin: I’ve written this list of seventeen things I’ve learned over the years.

1. Passion is fleeting.

I used to be fascinated with the color blue. Then when I was 6 I switched to red. Around 14 I switched back to blue again. Now I’m starting to like green (notice my website’s colors?).

Don’t count on being dedicated to writing, piano, blogging, or photography all your life. Don’t root yourself in material mediums, because it doesn’t matter …

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Richard X. Thripp in QUANTA

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-07-17T18:16:53Z in Scholarly Essays, with these tags: growth, quanta, richard x. thripp, 0 Comments. 2,454 words.

Richard X. Thripp in QUANTA.
Essays by Richard X. Thripp.
2008-07-17 — http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/essays
PDF version (100 KB).

Two introspective essays I wrote in December of 2007 and May of 2008, for completing the Fall and Spring semesters in the QUANTA learning community (daytonastate.edu/quanta) at Daytona Beach College. I can’t look at these and say they speak for me now, because they speak for the Richard X. Thripp of 2007-12 and 2008-05, from which I’m constantly changing. They’re a good representation of QUANTA and elaborate on some of my beliefs, though.

The Learning Community: Reflections on Sixteen Weeks in QUANTA [2007-12-10]

For …

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More stuff:   End of Semester    Photo: Bongos for Peace    Back to School  

Everything is Stock

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-07-16T02:20:55Z in Photography Ramblings, with these tags: richard x. thripp, stock photography, 0 Comments. 583 words.

In the past six hours, I’ve released 53 of my photos as royalty-free stock. Check out the stock gallery to see them all. This means that every photo I’ve published is free for anyone to use. Quite a milestone, I must admit.

All the photos in the portfolio (about page 2 of the stock gallery at the moment) have source images now. I’ve linked to them in each post. So you can get right to the source of things, be it a JPEG (stuff with my older cameras) or .cr2 RAW (from my Canon Rebel XTi). This is great for …

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The Big Switch

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-07-08T11:51:33Z in Technology, with these tags: changes, computers, richard x. thripp, thripp.com, 0 Comments. 136 words.

I’ve been away for two days working on technical issues instead of photography. The big one is that I’ve changed from richardxthripp.com to Thripp.com for myself and my users. A lot of work, but worth it because it’s so short. Read more about it here. I’d been posting to Twitter about it, right after I discovered that Thripp.com had become available, yesterday.

Expect some more photography tomorrow. The new address is richardxthripp.thripp.com, but richardxthripp.com/richardxthripp, richardxthripp.richardxthripp.com, and rxthripp.com, and subdirectories of them will continue to work forever. My email is now richardxthripp@thripp.com, but richardxthripp@gmail.com and richardxthripp@richardxthripp.com will also …

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The Return of the Shop

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-07-03T15:37:30Z in Photography Ramblings, with these tags: cart, prints, richard x. thripp, 2 Comments. 524 words.

The shop is back. It’s a bit different now. If you can recall from a month ago, I gave up on yak because it doesn’t work with Wordpress MU. I found a plugin that does: Quick-Shop. It’s less fancy, but a lot easier to maintain. When you click “Add to Cart” on any page, you get redirected to the shopping cart, with that item added. To go back, press back in your browser (the old-fashioned way). To buy, click the PayPal button; you’ll be redirected to them so you can enter your payment info. Here’s …

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My photos on the HTTP 500 Internal Server error page

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-07-03T06:11:48Z in Photography Ramblings, with these tags: internet, portfolio, richard x. thripp, thripp.com, wordpress, 5 Comments. 121 words.

I made a custom Internal Server Error page for the Thripp.com network, with all the photos from my portfolio. Error pages are fun again. :smile:

I put a lot of ads there too, so I can monetize the outages. Plus, the links are to the photos on my jpgmag.com gallery, and all the thumbnails are on Photobucket, so the page is light-weight, won’t chew up bandwidth, and makes my photos accessible when the database is down. It’s only 10KB!

I posted this to digg too:

Check out this HTTP 500 page; instead of being rudely interrupted with a

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The Return from the Vacation

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-06-30T23:18:16Z in Other, Photography Ramblings, with these tags: richard x. thripp, thripp.com, vacation, 2 Comments. 488 words.

Hello again. I’m back from my exciting four-day vacation. I stayed around Palm Beach for three days with my aunt, uncle, cousin, and grandma. It was 200 miles down there. We had a lot of fun, my aunt cooked great food, there was a cool storm, and we played volleyball in the pool. Afterward, I stayed with my Grandma for Sunday and part of Monday, and my Dad brought me home three hours ago. I’ve been unpacking and clearing out emails.

Here’s some photos. I won’t show family because they don’t want to be shown.

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Wordpress Plugins I’m Using

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-06-23T00:10:48Z in Technology, with these tags: richard x. thripp, thripp.com, wordpress, 3 Comments. 528 words.

I wrote this for a fellow photographer and photo-blogger named Nokao, since he asked what plugins I’m using for this site. As you may know, Brilliant Photography is powered by Wordpress: Wordpress MU to be specific, since I’m in the same database as the Thripp.com network with many other bloggers. I’ve been able to leverage all the great plugins people have created; I haven’t had to do any original coding yet.

You can look up any of these plugins in the Wordpress repository:

Alakhnor’s Post Thumb Revisited creates the thumbnails for all the images, the JavaScript pop-up effects (Highslide),

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More stuff:   Upgraded to Wordpress 2.5    Slow Firefox    Entry Mirroring  

Switched to SYN Hosting, Outage is Over

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-06-19T07:56:15Z in Technology, with these tags: internet, netfirms, richard x. thripp, syn hosting, thripp.com, wordpress, 1 Comment. 728 words.

Hi everyone. The website’s been down for the last 18 hours, since 7:30 A.M. (EDT) this morning, but I’m back now. I discovered it when I awoke at 2 P.M. (I’m happily unemployed), and immediately began trouble-shooting. It wasn’t on my end at all; it had to be Netfirms’ fault (they’ve given me trouble before). Netfirms wasn’t serving up anything from the MySQL database, which cripples me, because this blog is all dynamic.

Netfirms has been growing progressively worse in the past two weeks… FTP has been terribly slow, the website is slow, it’s gone down a couple of …

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