I’m finding that my web sites here want quite a few good shots of various mundane items to improve the look of the pages and tell the tales I want to tell. Continue reading I need to look into better lighting for indoor shots…
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Reading Neil Asher’s Space Opera (Polity – Agent Cormac)
Since before vacation I’ve been working my way through Neil Asher’s ‘Polity’ stories. I have read scattered volumes in the loose series in the past but never started at some coherent point and worked my way through. So far I’ve read these volumes and I’m part of the way through ‘Line War’.
Continue reading Reading Neil Asher’s Space Opera (Polity – Agent Cormac)
Some shots from April of 2015 at the Magic Kingdom
This was our first day in Orlando on this trip. Trying for unusual angles and different perspectives with a smattering of just shots of interest… Continue reading Some shots from April of 2015 at the Magic Kingdom
Long weekend, some progress…
…I spent about half of the available time over the weekend post processing and triaging photos from our April 2015 trip to support Lorna’s summer scrapbooking activities.
On the technical side, I got XAMPP fully installed and configured on my Ubuntu linux box and pulled a complete snapshot of my web hosting over and loaded it up. the database loads were completed without a hitch and the file transfers completed with a few stalls using <code>wget -m</code>.
As of this morning, I have a fully functional mirror of all of the content on my blog up and running. I need to burn the tarball to a blue-ray disk (around 9GB so DVD won’t hack it) tonight. The site does seem to know that it lives at ninecrows.com because any link on the mirror transfers directly to my real site. Got to figure out where that’s stored and fix it as the next step.
Once that’s done I can move on to testing out mod-rewrite rules for redirecting the landing spot to my landing area wordpress instance so that I can point people to http://ninecrows.com rather than one of the specific blogs. Looks a bit messy and likely somewhat finicky in exact configuration, but shouldn’t be hard to get right using my local mirror.
The Things You Learn…
I just found out that there is a way to calculate the ‘nth’ digit of pi (and various other constants) without calculating the intervening digits…see here on Wikipedia for the details. Cool stuff.
June 30, 2016
The craziness continues. I’ve done a few, mostly cosmetic updates to my career (technical stuff) blog.
Backups seem to be working properly but I have not had a chance to try setting up a free standing wordpress and restoring the results to verify that they round-trip cleanly.
I really need to send email to the folks we met on the cruise to let them know that at least one batch of shots has been posted here from Guernsey.
I still owe Jen the balance of the ‘how this blog got set up’ articles. I’m going to aim to get those written and published by the end of the coming long weekend.
Getting to the next day’s worth of cruise photos is going to be challenging. I’ve got a number of technical issues to get straightened out, I need to get Lorna more shots from April 2015 for her longer scrapbooking camp. There are other issues hovering around as well. I’ll do what I can as I really do want to share these. Stay tuned.
I want to write up my thoughts on the various craziness going on in the world out there. Seems like the events go by much faster than I can comment so we’ll have to see.
Crazy last few days…
Last week I dug through the backlog from being away for an extended stretch (I think this cruise was the longest vacation I’ve had since I started working).
I expedited the post processing of the shots from our last excursion at Guernsey to get them up on the site.
At this point I’ve got some post-processing to do on last April’s Disney trip shots for Lorna’s scrap-booking over the next few weeks so the next block of shots may be a little bit delayed (I can drop some nice shots from the Disney parks in Orlando in the interim).
Guernsey Osprey
While stopped at an overlook of the beach and sea (with cannons) we saw an osprey fly up and hover looking for prey. Amazing shots of it hanging there. It took me a little while to get my long lens swapped in (I have a set of not very good shots from the landscape lens I had been using) but I got more than enough frames.
Guernsey Bike Riding
A wonderful bicycle ride around Guernsey. Beautiful scenery, narrow roads, very pastoral with occasional bunkers.
Our guides were great and it was very nice to be out in the air riding bikes and not in a tour bus sitting. I carried my big camera slung on my side/back. It was a bit of a nuisance, but the pictures were worth the hassle.
We stopped at a little tea house and grabbed a snack, a very tasty slice of apple pie in my case.
Guernsey Town
Coming into the harbor and on the short bus ride to the other side of the island I grabbed some shots of the areas we passed through. Beautiful old houses and interesting building (and lots of walls).