Bugger. Transferring my DNS hosting away from UK2.net (go on - you know you want to, chuffing wide-boys: http://amail.co.uk/moveaway.htm) and there’s a little hitch. Not Easyspace’s fault, but it will result in a bit of a break in DNS. Normal service should be resumed on Monday. D’oh!
Happy days, mucking about with the PHP to get RSS-based cherry-picking working for the index pages. That way, you won’t have to load my entire blog every time you hit the index page. It’s more difficult to explain than to write the code. That must say something about where my real talents lie - no surprises there, I suppose…
Finally: a reminder of what a blast the Banff Holiday was.
Easter weekend was hectic for one reason or another: lots of socialising with some of my family, worring about other members of my family (Dad got hit by a tree he was cutting down and lost his memory temporarily: he’s OK now, thank goodness) and pigging out on chocolate. Sat out the last of my enforced absences from the footy pitch last night. More later when I don’t have a splitting headache as I do just now…
I have none. Lots to do, no time to do it. Joining Audioscrobbler has prompted me to tag my mp3 files properly using MusicBrainz - not easy when they top 60gb! I’ve left it running while I came to work - so far it’s about a tenth of the way through. It might also make me finally weed out some stuff that’s frankly terrible and I’ll never listen to.
I still have to sort out the web site for our holiday in Banff: stitching the panoramas is a bit of a cow. Too many things moving in the foreground and a numpty photographer who forgot about parallax - although allowing for parallax when you’re balanced on a plank with helmet and goggles on, 2000m up a very cold mountain isn’t exactly top of the list of priorities.
Plus, of course, there’s always more work to do on the site itself. Since it seems I’m actually keeping this blog thing going, I’m going to need to move it to its permanent home soon, complete with slicing and dicing based on date, category etc. And then there’s the long-awaited music section, RSS feeds and so on. Not to mention the tweaks that the footy blokes keep asking for.
I might even find some time to do real things, you know, in meatspace. Ha!
Working on code for the site tonight, so there won’t be any clever fluff for today. I’m sure y’all are devastated.
Oh yeah; a bit disappointed with the NFL Championship games - both favourites got through without too much trouble. My British natural support for the underdog didn’t do me much good. Not sure I know who I want to win the Superbowl. Mind you, that McNabb seems like a nice bloke…
SELinux needed to be unbunged after the nightly yum update, leading to complete loss of all dynamic content. Now fixed. Sorry bout that!
All of the site sections now have sexy sexy new mastheads and fixed-width layouts (for desktop browsers, anyway - phone and PDA support is improved but there’s more to come in that department).
