by John Talbot
"The buttons of your mind were difficult to find and my fingers far too clumsy."
I’ve been umming and arring over whether to use Flickr or Picasa for my photo storage. Pros for Flickr are it has better album/set support and allows photo titles. Pros for Picasa are it’s easier to upload stuff from the PC, has more free storage and the Shashin plugin for WordPress is excellent. The lack … Continue reading Picasa v Flickr
I’m in the process of moving everything to a new WordPress blog. ExpressionEngine is great and all that but it’s too slow and image handling is a bit rubbish. You can find the new site at https://www.buttonsofmymind.co.uk/. I’ll probably leave this site alone for a bit but direct people to the new site.
Now I have this nice new shiny (fast) blog I need to sort through my astroimages and reupload them. I’ve started using Picasa as my online image storage. This time I want to avoid having them all on my own hosting for future proofing. I’ll see how that goes. Picasa doesn’t support sub-albums though and … Continue reading Astro Images
I was weak and bought RB3 with the keyboard last week. I skipped RB2 as I thought RB had a very dull single-player career path and having played RB2 at Chowny’s thought it was no better. Pro-keys is awesome n all, playing along to the keyboard parts using actual notes is great fun, despite some … Continue reading Rock Band 3
I’ve finally decided to move to WordPress and lose ExpressionEngine. You can still find the old content at http://www.jochta.com. I intend to keep an astrodiary on here. Much for myself as anyone else, so I can keep a record of my observing and imaging. I might also do a gaming diary! First I need to … Continue reading Moving to WordPress
Next week we’re off on a cycle tour of Wales exactly a year after our LEJOG. The plan is to cycle from Chepstow – Swansea – Fishguard – Aberystwyth – Shrewsbury using NCN routes. About 450 miles in seven days (60 miles/day). We’ll be camping and carrying all of our equipment. Follow the journey on … Continue reading Tour of Wales
I’ve finally moved the astroimages to their own gallery (which is what I should have done ages ago). So no more broken category listings and the galleries should run a lot quicker. I’ve started a new category for images of the Lunar 100 which I will be filling up when I can. I’ve also tidied … Continue reading All Dandy
My host has kindly updated the PHP version this evening which has caused some problems on the site. Most noticeably the photo galleries which are exceeding the memory allocation. I’m on the case and will fix them ASAP. UPDATE: I isolated the problem to the category index. So at the moment it’s showing all the … Continue reading Galleries Broken
Well it’s a long time since I posted isn’t it? Just been busy on Twitter instead I suppose. It’s appropriate therefore that I post a new image of a partially eclipsed Blue Moon which happened on New Year’s Eve. It was a lovely sight and I was lucky with a break in the clouds which … Continue reading Once In A Blue Moon
Blimey, can’t believe it’s been a week since we crossed the finishing line at John o’Groats! The train journey home was long and boring, it was more painful being sat down on the trains for so long then it was cycling every day. And the cycle facilities on Pendolino trains is pitiful, each station invited … Continue reading One Week Later