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Archives finally back online

Posted on August 29, 2008 by

Hooray, after procrastinating for ages, and then running into trouble with database versions, I have finally imported all my old blog posts into the drupal database. The only way to browse them is to use the page links at the bottom of the blog listing … the calendar browsing isn’t working so well at the moment, and I can’t be arsed to try and fix it. The important thing is that all my data is in one format again, for the first time in a good couple of years.

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So close, and yet so far

Posted on August 26, 2008 by

I spent a bit of time over the weekend trying to work out how to import all my old blog posts (pre-New Zealand) into the website. Sadly it didn’t all work out, as the version of mysql i have on my laptop doesn’t match up with that of the my hosting provider. So now I have to work out a different way of dealing with the import. A little disappointing all in all …

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Website update

Posted on August 21, 2008 by

Today, I woke up in the mood to sort out my website. So that is what I have done. Much of the change will be completely invisible to you, as it has mainly been about updating the backend software to a more recent version – I am now running drupal 5.10, instead of the antiquated (and probably insecure) 4.7.2. Continue reading →

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A website update

Posted on August 5, 2008 by

A slight change to the website, as I have decided to start leveraging all those wonderful social networking type tools that are out there a little more, rather than trying to do it myself. This mainly means that the gallery is not going to be being updated anymore, and I will be using flikr for my pics, and I decided that I would sign up for twitter as well, for those little updates in life which has become quite appealing to me after following raettig for a week or two.

This is all a part of preparation for updating the website soon as well, I simply couldn’t face all the tedious faffing around that will inevitably arise from having to deal with gallery integration and the like.
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iPhone shuffle mode

Posted on July 29, 2008 by

recently I found that I was having a problem with my iPhone that meant that it would not play albums in order, and kept on shuffling it. Clearly I had inadvertently hit a setting without meaning to, but I couldn’t find it for love nor money. A quick google though, and I’ve found out how to sort it … when a track is playing, tap the artwork, and icons for repeat play and shuffle appear, so you can turn them on and off there.

As usual, it’s easy once you know how ;-)

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