One of the nice features in Wordpress is the ability to upload an image into a blog.
The thing is that getting the image uploads right isn’t necessarily easy. You have to do some CHMODing of folders so they can write the files, but that won’t always solve it.
Sebastien Wains solved my problem. If PHP safe […]
As part of the conversion to Wordpress, I noticed that one of my videos hadn’t come over properly. I went looking for an extension and found Viper’s Video Quicktags which does the job.
Once installed and activated, you get new buttons for embedding FLV video into posts.
I’ve finally (after various problems with DNS and getting domain transferred), switched this blog to Wordpress, including a theme that I call Yellowcab.
The theme and content are still under development.
I recently bought an old Thinkpad T41 to run Linux. I don’t need a particularly powerful machine for Linux needs, but my Dell laptop had a power supply that was glowing a little too hot for me to be comfortable.
Here’s the installation instructions in full:-
Download the ISO image from the Ubuntu Linux website.
Insert blank CD […]
I’ve been having a few chinwags with Dirk Olbertz who runs the Noserub project, for which he seems to be working on something that what I’m thinking about. He’s starting in a good way - don’t try and produce conceptual diagrams - build something and get people thinking and talking about it.
The approach is not […]
I’ve been starting to mull over whether there is an alternative to social networking than the current set of closed networks that exist in technologies such as Facebook, MySpace and so forth.
One could argue that blogging, RSS and so forth is a start of this. You can see a view of all your friends blogs […]
To celebrate, I thought I’d reveal the first CD I bought. I bought 2 CDs at the same time, so both deserve a mention.
One was Love by Aztec Camera, which is a rather good album, and still worth a listen. The other was Peepshow by Siouxsie and the Banshees, bought on the strength of “Peek-a-Boo” […]
From The Telegraph:-
The Eiffel Tower is "frustratingly overcrowded and overpriced" while Stonehenge is "just a load of old rocks" according to a report which has named the top ten most disappointing tourist spots.
This is one of the things about famous (and often deservedly so) places. They are overcrowded. Lots of people want to see them. […]
Thanks for all the music…
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