PicLens Test Post
I’m testing a new plugin called PicLens. It looks promising, if I can get it working. The PicLens Plugin for WordPress takes all the images in a post and makes a slideshow from them. Could be very useful. It also includes a Slide-show widget, which you can see to the side. The widget, unfortunately, seems...
New Glasses
Hmm….long time no post. Oh well. Maybe I’ll try and get to this more often. Anyway, I decided that the time had come to get some new glasses. Went to the doctor today and got my new prescription. Then I came home and ordered my glasses on the internet. I can hear some of you...
City of Edmonton council hides behind technology
I just tried to fill out the Message to City Council (City of Edmonton) form at http://www.edmonton.ca/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_360_251_0_43/http%3B/CMSServer/COEWeb/mayor+and+city+council/message+to+city+council.htm and when I finished I got an Error 404 page at http://www.edmonton.ca/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_360_251_0_43/http%3B/CMSServer/COEWeb/mayor%2520and%2520city%2520council/InteractiveForm_ContactCouncil.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRNODEGUID=%7b72509C32-CEC6-469D-A9A8-B856A6BBEC9C%7d&NRORIGINALURL=%2fCOEWeb%2fmayor%2520and%2520city%2520council%2fmessage%2520to%2520city%2520council%2ehtm&NRCACHEHINT=NoModifyGuest Did my message get to City Council or is this just a layer of protection for the councillors so they are not bothered by the public?...
Don’t ship parcels with Purolator
I ordered a new computer from Dell back in July. It arrived on my birthday, July 26. Two days later, the hard drive failed – I can accept this – it happens, and Dell support promised me a whole new CPU as a “System Exchange” as the system was under 30 days old. Great. So...
July Site Updates
Recent updates: Modified the Regulus theme by Ben @ Binary Moon for the photo gallery theme. Now I have a consistent them for the entire site.
June Site Updates
Recent updates: Installed the Regulus theme by Ben @ Binary Moon for the site’s theme. Made a few tweaks to the theme – mainly in the display colours. Created my own header image featuring my own photographs Added a calendar section which displays days with posts in bold. There’s more to be done yet, but...
Photo Gallery
My Coppermine Photo Gallery is now up and running. Please check it out. I’ll be adding more photos to it as I get a chance. Right now, all of 2003 and 2006 so far are in there. All my hiking trip digital photos are in there. I have to scan more hiking photos for a...
Testing Coppermine
I’m testing the Coppermine photo gallery software for my website. Hopefully it will do what I want. In conjunction, I’m also testing the CoppermineSC Plugin for WordPress. Let’s see what happens. Six Random Images from Radium Area Dayhikes Album [cpg_albumrand:3,6] A specific Image from Radium Area Dayhikes Album in Normal size [cpg_imagenormal:3,HPIM2070.jpg] Looks promising. I’ll...
Vista Beta 2 not ready for primetime
Well, it’s obvious it’s still a Beta, but it’s working reasonably well for me. I’ve had a few times where an application would freeze up and one BSOD! I have not had any one specific item cause repeated problems. Most of the software I use regularly is working fine. The one thing I miss most...
Windows Vista Beta 2 SUCCESS!
To recap the story: I Downloaded Windows Vista Beta 2 at work on Friday. Burned a copy to DVD (you have to use DVD) but it was a bad copy. Re-downloaded it on Saturday and burned a nice shiny new DVD (burned at 4x – recommended to burn at 2x – talk about slow). I...
Installing Vista Beta – Take 2
Ok. I’ve walked through the first few steps again, but went the Custom route. The installer asked which drive I wanted to use, told me what it was going to do (move the old version of Windows to a folder called Windows.old along with other things too) and then started installing. This time I got...
