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It’s Hot

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

Laura, a Spanish lady I work with, would be very happy today. For her ‘too hot’ is around 40 degrees. For me it seems to be any day in Summer where there is no cloud.

What is a shame is that if we were still in Lynmouth right now it would be beautiful. We would probably be in Coffee Mill with an ice cream under an umbrella with a nice sea breeze. Here, with all the cars and the noise, it just doesn’t work as well.

But enough of complaining… although that is the main reason for having a blog…

I’ve got a few more games now. I was reading about how most games that you buy last about 12 hours from start to finish. I have played world of warcraft in total for about 800 hours; there just isn’t a finish in that game. When you have timescales like that to compete with it’s hard to find single player games but I’ve now got Command and Conquer Tiberium Wars and Stalker Shadow of Chenobyl. Should be fun and more importantly they have pause and save buttons.

Last thing for the day is to mention RSS. If you have google as your homepage you can press that little ‘iGoogle‘ button in the corner and make your own google homepage. You can find little RSS feed buttons and add them to the google homepage. This means that when you open up your homepage you can find which of your favourite sites have new stuff on them. My site’s RSS feed is to the right and called ‘Entries RSS‘ and you can also find RSS feeds on the BBC for things like news and weather.

Air Ambulance / Flickr change

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Got up close to an air ambulance today. Also you’ll notice that I’ve added something into the blog to better intergrate it into flickr.

Photoshop

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

I’ve been very good with software recently. I’ve been buying all my software, using my job as a way of legally getting things like Office and educational versions of Dreamweaver. But I got stuck with Photoshop this week.

I’ve been using Paint Shop Pro XI for all my photo editing. It’s about £600 less and practically indistinguishable from PS. However the theme on the blog seems to require it.

So I’ve had to install Photoshop for 30 minutes and uninstall it just to do the edits above. But I think it looks quite nice.

Old posts

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

I filled it up pretty quickly!

With 206 previous blog entries spanning 4 years I’ve not really had the time to import my old stuff properly. Most things are there but what has happened is

  • Posts from before I had a password system have all been passworded, just in case something is in there that shouldn’t
  • Posts that have apostrophes in them have database protection in them. I’ve will turn into I\’ve. I could fix this, but I don’t really want to spend the time on it
  • Posts that have photographs in them now don’t
  • Posts that are password protected will have a password box appear instead of the text

The password is one word now. If the username was mummy and the password was daddy then the new one word password would be mummydaddy. No spaces, no hyphens, just one word.

I’ll make a ‘page’ soon (a page is one of the black tabs at the top) called ‘passwords’ that will recap this. I’m sure it won’t be very find-able when it isn’t on the top.

Change of Scenery

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

I’ve been thinking about how to make my site easier to manage and I’m wondering if this is the answer.

Most of my website is the blog. Anything that isn’t the blog are my photographs. So the logical answer seems to be to have a blog, and then have a photos site.

So I’ve got myself a flickr pro account and have started to upload my photographs there. You can see what I have up so far at my Flickr page.

Once the photos are out of the way with I shall try and work out a way of importing my old blog posts into this system and to have a nice way of linking to the flickr page.

One thing that may have to change is the way private blog and photo posts work. You may have to have an account on this site and flickr to see the (very few) personal ones. This site allows me to hide posts, Flickr has more options and can limit photos to friends, family, either or.

More news soon. Hopefully more than once a year!

Graham