Wee robin in the snow, 23rd December 2009

Canal boat in snow, 23rd December 2009

Canal, sunset, snow, 23rd December 2009

Did I mention the snow?

Geese over the Gadloch, 8th November 2009*

Still testing my new camera, but quite pleased with the results on this autumn/winter walk, with cool blue skies and a low, bright afternoon sun. The rest of the images I’ve uploaded to flickr.

*You have no idea how smug I am about this image.

I also spent an indecent amount of time working out which problem with WP 2.8 would cause me problems (low PHP memory allocation, if you’re interested, which I doubt), and started to see if there was a way around this (there is, but I don’t know if my hosting provider will like it, so I’m not making any sudden moves).

Today’s image is a still from the opening titles of the documentary Helvetica, which is about the typeface Helvetica, and yes, I am a geek, and you can’t stop me…

(I’m trying to make myself watch all the DVDs that I own but have been actively ignoring: Helvetica was the first. Only – Good Lord, how many? – to go. It’s not helped by the fact that certain people, who will remain nameless, have been encouraging the re-watching of Stargate Atlantis)

The site’s clean again, and has been accepted back into the Google fold, but Twitter still hates me and is ignoring my plaintive cries for help. (These will presently turn to mutters of pure geek rage, liable to be ignored even more emphatically)

Aside: Was Moby Dick the original fail whale?

Also: Eeep. Just changed the link structure without checking which posts have links to other posts within my site…

I only put the Attack of the 50ft Woman poster up on Facebook because I didn’t feel much like uploading an unflattering photo of myself, Facebook etiquette notwithstanding. My intention was to change the poster every few weeks. Now, as I vainly attempt to make myself more socially networked, I always seem to come back to this.

I really should get myself a logo. I mean, I haven’t even seen the film.

Image is from, uh, somewhere. Don’t sue.

And best wishes for the New Year.

It’s all different (go to the WordPress site for an elaboration, I’m not much above – ooh, AJAX-y!), and will now apparently be updatable without me backing everything up and then carefully installing the new version, which is useful, but I still get a certain satisfaction from doing this and it actually working, rather than giving me pert error messages.

So now the image upload thing should work (eee!) (I should probably elaborate: It’s not that the image upload hasn’t worked since WP 2.5, it’s just that I kept forgetting to upgrade this site until now, so missed the various bug-fixes. Upgrading means I realise how long it is since I posted anthing), which means I can see whether the AJAX-y image thing on the front page works now…

I’m still working out the bugs, so if it suddenly goes wonky, let me know :)

Mostly I’m just excited about the AJAX. Which would be way more impressive if I could upload the damn image I was going to use. (upload fail :(