Below is the new text logo for the volunteer T-shirt that I designed in Adobe Illustrator, based on the design of Quiché’s own soda company: India Quiché (desde 1926!). There isn’t enough Quiché pride, so a t-shirt should do the trick nicely!

Click here to see the design. The original Illustrator (.ai) file can be found here, as well as the larger version of the linked .png file

For those of you following the blog, you may remember that I started a small computer lab project working with Don Livingston from Computers for Guatemala, funded with donations from family and friends. My Health Center director, the program manager of “Healthy Adolescents”, and I went to go pick up the computers almost six months ago only to find that they did not have keyboards or mice. After a few months of scrounging around for supplies and going through my stuff back in the United States, we finally got the lab up and running. Unfortunately it didn’t get much use because we finished getting everything set up right as the school year was ending. The 2010 school year is scheduled to start in our area next Monday, so I plan on spending the majority of these last few months here serving as a lab monitor and instructor for all of the students that come in.

Images of the lab in the next week or so… stay tuned!

Posting this for anyone else that runs into trouble importing images from blogspot/blogger services to WordPress.

I had previously used blogspot for the first part of my Peace Corps service. I later switched over to wordpress and found that all of my images were still on the blogspot servers and, even worse, they were all html files linked to .jpeg images. In order to remedy this, I went in search of solutions in the WordPress Codex and online in other blogs. I came upon this nifty little plugin: Blogger Image Import.

However, the plugin was not designed to handle blogger/blogspot’s funky html-to-jpeg linking. To clarify, “s1600-h” loads an html page that links to the image whereas “s1600″ is a direct link to the image. Here is the fix I used in order to get around this problem:

1.) Open up phpmyadmin and click on the wordpress database.
2.) FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLY, BACK UP YOUR DATABASE
3.) After backing up the database, click on the SQL tab and enter this query:

UPDATE `wp_posts` SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content,"s1600-h","s1600");

Once it tells you it has finished, you are now set to use the plugin — unless you are coming from blogspot. The plugin searches for all URLs that contain the ‘blogger.com’ domain, but all of my URLs contained the ‘blogspot.com’ domain. To fix this, open blogger-image-import.php and search for this line:

$innerT = $urlchar."blogger.com".$urlchar."\.jpg";

and replace it with this:

$innerT = $urlchar."blogspot.com".$urlchar."\.jpg";

Hopefully this helps someone out