tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6167812630576707762024-03-13T21:46:34.645-05:00ASD's Site Updates BlogAlan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-79815887289477342952014-05-28T11:01:00.005-05:002014-05-28T11:01:56.055-05:00Found a photo of JW Marriott at Grande Lakes from May 2006Searching around some less-than-organized photos I've taken over the years, I came across a photo of this resort near Walt Disney World that you can see as you drive from Orlando International Airport to Walt Disney World. I stayed here for a conference in May 2006.<br />
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<a href="http://wp.asdhollywood.com/wdw-may2006/dsc06526/" target="_blank">Click here</a> to see the photo.Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-31004367451428139452014-01-18T16:52:00.001-06:002014-01-18T16:52:14.808-06:00Another New Year at Walt Disney WorldLots of photos, some interactive 360ยบ images, and some videos from December 30, 2013 to January 6, 2014 at <a href="http://wp.asdhollywood.com/category/wdw/">my main site</a>.Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-65266580750508804362013-12-29T19:23:00.002-06:002013-12-29T19:23:21.405-06:00Las Vegas at Christmas 2013I had fun using my newest cameras, the iPhone 5s and the Canon Powershot SX280 HS, I've posted over 190 photos and a video. <a href="http://wp.dalinka.com/vegas-xmas2013">Enjoy.</a>Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-26763181555646218032013-11-12T16:13:00.001-06:002013-11-12T16:13:19.399-06:00Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives exhibit photosHaving visited Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry on November 4, 2013, I got a chance to explore the D23 exhibition featuring lots of artifacts from the life of Walt Disney and The Walt Disney Company. <a href="http://wp.asdhollywood.com/d23archives">View the 77 photos now on their own page</a>.Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-12723944031686637732013-10-21T13:51:00.001-05:002013-10-21T13:53:18.230-05:00Over 100+ October 2013 photos of Chicago addedMostly thanks to the free <a href="http://openhousechicago.org/">Open House Chicago</a> program on October 19-20, 2013, I've added more than 100 photos to my <a href="http://chicago.dalinka.com/">Hometown Chicago page</a>. There's also a new separate page of photos of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed <a href="http://wp.dalinka.com/robie">Robie House</a> at University of Chicago.Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-90132213110729232162013-09-08T22:46:00.002-05:002013-09-08T22:48:04.666-05:00Visit Las Vegas at Xmas in 2005With a good deal of progress toward migrating the site to WordPress now complete (nearly every page), I discovered that I never posted pictures from my <a href="http://wp.dalinka.com/vegas-xmas2005">Christmas 2005 visit to Las Vegas, NV</a>. That's been remedied tonight with 80 "new" photos posted. I also discovered that I have no stills from my Christmas 2006 visit and I don't remember why (there's not a gap in the automatic sequential numbering of my photos taken during December 2006 that suggests that they were deleted). Of course, that was a year before I got my first iPhone, so it's possible I just chose to travel without a camera.Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-64388414955420301192013-08-31T14:47:00.000-05:002013-09-04T20:45:20.375-05:00Lots of "New" photos of Universal Hollywood from 2004 posted<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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As I work on migrating the format of the site, I'm looking at older pages to see where I may have more photos to post. Long ago, I promised that more photos were coming soon to the <a href="http://dalinka.com/Universal/Hollywood/">Universal Studios Hollywood page</a> and now, at last, I've posted them.<br />
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I even got carried away and added a bunch more photos from November 15, 2004 to the <a href="http://wp.asdhollywood.com/ush2004/">newly formatted page</a>.<br />
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More "old" photos of other places will probably be posted around the site "soon" too. Stay tuned.Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-10649205053586706022013-08-30T11:48:00.001-05:002013-08-30T12:03:02.121-05:00ASDHollywood.com Wordpress Migration Progress!Just about all of the <a href=http://asdhollywood.com>ASDHollywood.com</a> pages devoted to visits to <a href=http://florida.asdhollywood.com>Walt Disney World</a>, <a href=http://california.asdhollywood.com>Disneyland USA</a> and <a href=http://paris.asdhollywood.com>Disneyland Paris</a> have made the transition over to the Wordpress platform. If you explore, I've sprinkled some new (old) photos here and there and even added a photo standing in front of the late lamented Disneyland Peoplemover from back in <a href="http://wp.asdhollywood.com/dl-1991/">May 1991</a>. Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-13516655294403828832013-08-20T08:43:00.001-05:002013-08-20T08:43:13.587-05:00Revisit Walt Disney World at New Year's 2006-7Sure, it's been more than six years since the celebration of New Year's 2006-7, but in redesigning the site, I discovered that I had only posted one photo of the Parks from this trip to Walt Disney World. That's been remedied with 88 "new" photos from my <a href=http://wp.asdhollywood.com/wdw-newyear2007/>New Year's 2006-7 Trip</a>. Enjoy.Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-41482802406622658482013-08-04T18:39:00.001-05:002013-08-04T18:39:48.746-05:00Another visit to Walt Disney World - July 28 to August 1, 2013A <a href=http://wp.asdhollywood.com/wdw-summer2013/>webpage</a> of photos and interactive panoramas is online now.Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-41466690825472307262013-08-03T16:34:00.002-05:002013-08-03T16:34:39.715-05:0050 New Photos of Chicago addedIncluding a few interesting ones from the air. They're on the <a href=http://chicago.dalinka.com>Hometown Chicago</a> page and in the mix for the random photos that appear on the <a href=http://dalinka.com>Home Page of Dalinka.com</a>. Also, quite a few broken photo links throughout the site have been fixed.Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-22934003495921882552013-06-14T18:25:00.004-05:002013-06-14T18:25:57.843-05:00Over 40 new Chicago photos addedPhotos from around town, including O'Hare and Midway from December 2012 to June 2013 have been added to the <a href="http://chicago.dalinka.com/">Chicago</a> page (and the random engine for <a href="http://dalinka.com/">Dalinka.com</a>).Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-64437620069651241372013-01-18T11:32:00.001-06:002013-08-04T18:37:39.640-05:00Back from Walt Disney World and South FloridaJust a few days later than my usual New Year trip this year, I spent a week at Walt Disney World and nearly a week in South Florida. Fortunately, the run of the Comedy Warehouse Holiday Special was just long enough that I caught four shows (two on each of the last two days of its run) as well as the Osbourne Family Dancing Lights at Disney's Hollywood Studios. Lots of new stuff to see since my last visit in August. At the Studios, I saw the new Legend of Jack Sparrow. Over at Epcot, I rode the new version of Test Track. At Animal Kingdom, I saw the zebras recently added to the Safari and appreciated the slower pace of the ride that allowed for more careful photography. And, of course, over at Magic Kingdom, I saw New Fantasyland: rode the Little Mermaid ride (which, except for the building and queue is a copy of the one I rode a month earlier at Disney California Adventure), and experienced the Enchanted Tales with Belle (along with my young nieces and nephew). As always, lots of photos and video posted on <a href=http://wp.asdhollywood.com/wdw-jan2013/>this page</a>.Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-77627440825495437702012-12-25T01:12:00.000-06:002012-12-25T01:14:28.893-06:00WordPress Migration Continues ... New PagesThe front page of <a href=http://asdhollywood.com>ASDHollywood.com</a> has migrated again, this time to WordPress 3.5 (very long story that has to do with the way my host, 1and1.com, deals with click-and-build versus do-it-yourself -- the short of it is that I had hoped to use "click-and-build" but realized that if I want to keep the site current, I'll have to use do-it-yourself). The front page of <a href=http://dalinka.com>Dalinka.com</a> remains in a click-and-build installation of WordPress 3.4.2.
One of the plugins I had hoped to use, also hasn't been upgraded by its authors to compatibility with WordPress 3.5, so I've had to find some other plugins and develop more code behind the scenes to make the page-by-page transition to the new platform. I certainly have more tweaking to do to the page layout to take full advantage of the "Responsive Theme" and its ability as good on mobile devices as on other browsers. I also have a bit more learning and experimenting to do before I (hopefully) may be able to one day say page transitions could be easy.
So far, the creation of the <a href=http://asdhollywood.com/about.html>About</a> page was not too difficult. More difficult was the creation of a "<a href="http://wp.asdhollywood.com/in-los-angeles">Disney "places" in LA page</a> to transition the old page that hosted only photos of Encounter Restaurant at LAX into a page that also includes photos of Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown L.A. and some Hollywood Boulevard sites.
Creation of the new version of the "<a href="http://wp.asdhollywood.com/in-burbank-ca">Disney Studios Burbank</a>" page wasn't as easy as I hoped after what I learned and created for the LA page. Indeed, the YouTube embedding is not working as advertised -- it's making the video way too big on the page. In any event, <a href="http://asdhollywood.com/NYC/">Disney in New York</a> and <a href="http://asdhollywood.com/Quest/">Disney in Chicago</a> will be next....Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-19108901364931924792012-12-09T22:48:00.001-06:002012-12-09T22:48:13.599-06:00Back from Disneyland and Los AngelesJust spent a week in Southern California visiting Disneyland, including Candlelight Processional at Disneyland, and the incredible new Cars Land, Buena Vista Street and (slightly less new) World of Color show and Little Mermaid ride at Disney California Adventure. During the trip, I also visited Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Burbank, Studio City, Santa Monica and many other sites around the area ... and, if you caught it just right, I was even seen on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on both Thursday and Friday nights (since both episodes were taped back-to-back on Thursday), with a very nice on-camera moment for me right next to Craig as he ran through the audience about five minutes before the end of Friday's show. Some pictures are on the <a href="http://travel.asdhollywood.com">PhotoBlog</a> now; more photos on the site soon.Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-30097667845940050522012-11-26T15:29:00.001-06:002012-11-26T16:48:50.123-06:00ASDHollywood is migrating to WordPressNow that I'm mostly using Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, I'm tired of trying to maintain the site with iWeb since Apple no longer supports it and thus, likely, will never further enhance it. So far, I've designed a new WordPress template and migrated the front page of ASDHollywood.com and the "About" page to that format. Dalinka.com will migrate next. <br />
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You can expect more tweaks/improvements to come and pages will move over to the new platform over the coming days/weeks/months. The good news is that, as an end-user, your visit to my site shouldn't really change at all. If you have bookmarks or links to my site or main pages, those should keep working and/or be appropriately forwarded. If not, please be sure to <a href="mailto:webmaster@asdhollywood.com" target="_blank">let me know</a>. Enjoy.</div>
Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-48181522705992061752012-10-20T01:41:00.000-05:002012-10-24T01:31:02.453-05:001200 Chicago Photos and other fixesThere are now 1200 <a href="http://chicago.dalinka.com/">Photos of Chicago</a> on the site, and lots of broken image links have been fixed as well. Several hundred more Chicago photos coming soon and, perhaps, a simpler way to select what to view.<br />
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Update 10/21/2012: Now there are over 1400 photos...<br />
Update 10/24/2012: Over 1500 photos, which brings the site up to date!Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-6433985226576161812012-08-22T19:07:00.002-05:002012-08-22T19:07:46.896-05:00There are now more than 1000 photos of Chicago!Visit <a href=http://chicago.dalinka.com>ASD's Hometown Chicago Page</a> to see them all. They'll also randomly appear on <a href=http://dalinka.com>ASD's Home Page</a>.Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-26571937131546374912012-08-12T15:51:00.000-05:002012-08-12T15:51:15.973-05:00More than 35 Chicago photos addedAs always, they can be seen on <a href="http://chicago.dalinka.com/">ASD's Home Town Chicago</a> page and may randomly appear on the Travel Photos slideshow on <a href="http://dalinka.com/">ASD's Home Page: Dalinka.com</a>.Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-48771580081118710702012-08-11T23:23:00.003-05:002012-08-11T23:23:28.153-05:00More than 170 Summer 2012 WDW Photos postedYes, another Walt Disney World visit is now complete. July 29 to August 2, 2012 at Disney's BoardWalk Resort. More than 170 new photos are now up on the <a href="http://asdhollywood.com/iWeb/preview/Walt_Disney_World_Pages/Entries/2011/12/30_2012_Trip.html">Walt Disney World 2012 page</a>. Enjoy.<br />
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Also, I think all of the site modifications were completed by the end of June (and I haven't come across a bug in awhile), but if you find one, please let me know. Thanks.Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-65591545583326095232012-06-06T01:45:00.001-05:002012-06-06T01:45:24.050-05:00More than 30 New Chicago Photos AddedThey can be seen on <a href="http://chicago.dalinka.com/">ASD's Home Town Chicago</a> page and may randomly appear on the Travel Photos slideshow on <a href="http://dalinka.com/">ASD's Home Page: Dalinka.com</a>.Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-66847027885644922582012-05-27T22:11:00.002-05:002012-05-27T22:11:14.908-05:00Site modifications are underwayTrying to do away with the last vestiges of the old format for the site. As the <a href="http://asdhollywood.com/">asdhollywood.com</a> pages migrate to the "Redesigned" look and code (Summer 2011 iWeb version), some page errors may appear if you haven't cleared your cache since your last visit or if I inadvertently don't link something correctly. Simply reloading is not always enough to get the page to display correctly as the migration continues -- please stay tuned, but clear your cache from time-to-time. I hope to complete this project in June 2012.<br />
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As I work through the migration, I am adding photos throughout the site to reward those visiting old pages. Enjoy and thanks for your patience.Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-12986062431846763252012-05-19T20:12:00.000-05:002012-06-18T09:12:40.196-05:00Downtown Chicago Disney Stores Photos AddedPhotos from 2009 of the Disney Store on Michigan Avenue and Photos from 2010 of the Disney Store at Block 37 on State Street have been added to the page of <a href="http://asdhollywood.com/iWeb/preview/Destination_Disney_in_Chicago.html">DisneyQuest/ESPNZone Chicago photos</a>.Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-66403507919038203972012-04-01T16:27:00.001-05:002012-04-01T16:27:08.151-05:0040+ New Photos of ChicagoWarmest March on record meant more time outdoors than usual. Lots of photos from North Michigan Avenue and Lincoln Park, among others. These new photos (from October 2011 to March 2012) can appear within the Random 50 Photos on <a href="http://dalinka.com/">ASD's Home Page</a> and all of them are included on the <a href="http://chicago.dalinka.com/">Home Town Chicago page</a> (albeit in random order). <div>
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I've also taken this opportunity to fix the links to photos stored off-site so that there shouldn't be missing photos. If you find a photo wouldn't load, <a href="mailto:webmaster@asdhollywood.com" rel="nofollow">please let me know</a> what page of the site you were viewing and a description of what wouldn't load.</div>Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-616781263057670776.post-44955374121706293642012-01-07T12:16:00.001-06:002012-01-07T12:16:48.433-06:00Walt Disney World for New Year's 2011-12Just back from celebrating the New Year at <a href="http://florida.asdhollywood.com/">Walt Disney World</a>. Lots of photos and, of course, the countdown fireworks from New Year's Eve.Alan S. Dalinkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00202173207565268156noreply@blogger.com0