Autumnal Changes

Saturday 18th October 2008

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This past month has been a bit of a busy one all in. Moved into the outlaws’ in sunny Maidenhead. It’s not a small house. And so Bow has been rented out. And so another one is added to the list of places I have lived. 29 in 32 years, wtf. And so that’s ten years done of me living in London. A good ten years.

Have begun the daily commute to Milton Keynes, an hour and a half each way. What a waste of time and energy commuting is. The project I’m working on has stalled, so Berlin is now out the window for me, unsure when or where I’ll be sent first.

Kate and I turned 2 years old, woot. Frankie turned 1 year old, woot woot.

And, I thought it was time to freshen up the site, so it’s now looking a little facebooky in keeping with the current vogue on the internets. What with me being a fashionista and all.

Filed under: Geek, London, Me Me Me, Work

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Photos on Site Sorted At Last

Saturday 13th October 2007

At long last, I’ve sorted out phot on the site after a large gap with nothing up. I’ve hunted high and low to find some blog imaging software that I’m happy with. These are the ways I could have gone but dismissed them. In order of the next most likely to be used:

  • Gallery2 through WPG2: Was looking great until I saw how heavy and slow it was. Also, as he name suggests, it’s embedded, so it’s just doesn’t slip in neatly to the blog, themes were overiding my css, content pages distorted my theme, far from perfect.
  • YAPB: I just didn’t get it. It looked nice on a couple of examples I found out there but somehow the UI wasn’t intuitive enough to grab me into using it.
  • Adobe CS2/ Dreamweaver: Been there done that, not fit for this purpose. I need everything proper-automated and integrated within the blog. These 2 are too generic in their themed designs, I want the ability to easily make changes where needs be, and again has to blog software related.
  • Coppermine: A mess, no thanks.
  • Flickr / Picasa: wanted to keep it personal and ‘in-house’.

So from now on there should be regular photo updates. Am off out, camera in hand…

Filed under: Geek, Photos

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