Owens L'ill Slice of the Web

I’m bored… bored bored bored…boooring.
No updates recently, except loadsa guff about fish. Well I’m still going to write about my finned friends but I need to start venting and smiling a bit more; so, having vowed I’d stop commenting all the wonks here and just use it as a diary I’m going to exercise my prerogative and say ‘Stuff that! Make more noise.’ watch this space…

I’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.

Lots of Theme customisation has been done, but it’s not totally visible since the overall style has not changed yet, all the improvements so far are ‘peripheral’. There is a lot more to come.

I’ve been trying (and failing) to import my old weblog from Blogger.. Problems with Wordpresses import function driving me nuts.
Yippeee! my old blog is now restored!

Please drop by again

Probably my last posting via Blogger.com, No updates in over a year probably gave the game away. Lost some interest, but mostly just busy with stuff.

However.. I have a new website done now (well.. nearly, it needs a load of themeing) which is built around wordpress so I’ll be able to keep the weblog going. I hope to import this blog into it as a ’starting point’, and then flesh the site out a bit, but not too much .

Welcome, welcome one and all to the new easytarget.me.uk !

This is my new, permanent, website..

There is still a lot to do here, but this new wordpress site is a start.

A quick update; I’ve been working on my new website quite a lot; and nothing has really happened here, I should blog more but just have no time.
I’m also busy with my job, which is nice and a lot better than unemployment!

Well, It´s time I posted something here. I´ve been away for a time and had a good time too. But now back to business..

.. No updates.
I’ve been busy with my new Linux system, she’s nearly there now.
(Gentoo+Kde=Smile)

I’ve decided to start tracking FreeBSD CURRENT. Building my own kernel and world worked like a charm. And now the system has all the most current FreeBSD security patches and technologies, plus it is highly optimised for my hardware and now runs a bit quicker.

Sorry hoor; ik werkt op mijn server vanavond.

I´m going to have to do it, and get some of that Ole´PHP goodness into my site. There are now some things I want to run on my server that require it. But not for the webmail, not yet.

Probably not…
I’ve made quite a few changes to the site, but they are all in the background, minor layout tweaks, and I’ve got the site much more HTML4 compliant.