Hi: This is the website for Owen Carter, a British guy who has been living in Amsterdam for the last 11 years.
I'm afraid there is nothing earth-shattering here, no solutions for World Peace, no cures for peoples ills.. Just a few of my photos and ramblings.
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 May 28th, 2009 |  OwenI’m so proud… I finally managed to add a block of random images from my gallery to the right-hand side of my homepage (You can probably see them now). I wasted loads of time playing with the wrong plugins to WordPress for this. Finally I just created a new RSS feed on my gallery set to dynamically provide random imagesfrom the whole gallery site. Then I used the Photo Sidebar Widget to display the first three images off the feed. This plugin does exactly what I want with no additional baggage, all the other solutions I found were vastly overcomplex (WPG2) or buggy (External Gallery2 Image Block Plugin).
But! I had to modify it to work with Gallery2.3 on my system like so:
Edit file: (you can do this via the WordPress inbuilt plugin editor if your system is setup to permit it.)
.../wp-content/plugins/photo-sidebar-widget/photo_sb.php
Find the following line:
case "Gallery 2 RSS Module, version 1.1.0":
And add a new line below it:
case "Gallery 2 RSS Module, version 1.1.0":
case "Gallery 2 RSS Module, version 1.1.7":
This allows it to grab a RSS feed from gallery 2.3 (the original line is for Gallery2.2). It totally failed to display any images for me until I worked this out, adding the above made it instantly spring into life.
May 21st, 2009 | Owen The bandwidth is terrible, but it’s free, and the view of the coast of France is good.. though not deeply exciting.
Looks like they only open a few ports though, no SSH session to my server, and Instant Messenger (MSN) protocols are blocked too.. which is not so good. Google came back in Swedish/Danish by default, but this is a Scandinavian owned ferry, and Google is no doubt detecting that the request comes from Maersk’s IT department.
Still, full cludos to Norfolkline for giving some access anyway..  and for not charging me when Belgian stupidity forced me to miss my booked crossing, they just smiled and put me on the next one.
Edit: On the way home I noticed another passenger using MSN (Windows live) quite happily (I didn’t peer too closely over their shoulder, but it was definately working for them) so maybe I caught them on a off day.. or aMSN on linux has particular issues.. I also had a meal in the restaurant and it was not exactly great value for money, SeaFrance is much better for food.
May 20th, 2009 | Owen Off to the UK for a few days, a good break for me and some family stuff to do too. Pretty happy with my Ferry ticket, 56 Euros all-in from Norfolkline, Dunkirk to Dover and back. I used them earlier this year too and it was a good crossing, I even had internet access on board
May 15th, 2009 | Owen So, I just had a sudden message from an infrequent MSN contact.. It went like this:
 Danger.. Phishermen at work. Looks like a phishing attempt… no reputable site would ever ask for your MSN username and password.. The alarm bells went off for me immediately. I’m sure http://ImageStoriez.com/ is a scam.. Now who do I notify? :-S
My other concern is that this probably means that one or the other of us has had their MSN account or system compromised in order to send the initial IM to me in the first place. So who has the infected machine.. is it their end or mine.. or is it somewhere in between? Irritating stuff.. and all just because the world is stuffed full of antisocial greedy people and ruled by a profit at any cost motive.
May 7th, 2009 | Owen Hummm.. Tomorrow I have the Fundarun. 10K, then another 10K on Saturday, wat leuk! . I hope I survive this.
Edit: Day later… Well, I survived the first (under an hour, not bad for minimum preparation). But my knee gave me some pains so I abandoned the AMC loop on Saturday and had a bath instead 
May 2nd, 2009 | Owen 
In a moment of weakness I brought a 10L Dennerle nano cube today, it’s to house freshwater shrimps, and some micro rasboras.
Should be interesting, I think it will live in my bedroom, nicer to look at than my alarm clock in the morning
I’m really keen to see how the shrimp work out, they are totally fascinating, I spent far too long checking them out in the shop. It will be a few weeks before it’s set up properly, getting it stable with some plants, rocks and decoration comes first, then shrimp. The fish will follow later, once I’m happy with the shrimp.
May 1st, 2009 | Owen What fun, started with Cava and ended late. I watched a friend playing his guitar on the corner of Nes and Grimburgwal, and things decended from there.
I’ve put a few choice pictures in my gallery;
 Playing to the crowd...
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