I run wordpress.com on my various blogs and on www.woollypigs.com/galleries I run Gallery3 to show my photos from our travels.
For some reason the bog standard set up of these two don't seem to like each other on my host. So after a lot of searching and going around in circles and just trying, eg. random editing something in the .htaccess for the heck of it.
I either got an 500 error or the blank galleries page in wordpress. I ended up ...
It so is ! http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/16069118 Then why the heck do the people in power NOT do more to safe this wonderful world? Don't you want this to be there for your kids and grand kids when they grow up? From where I sit, most of us (not in power) are agreeing to what I say, but as soon as you get a little power you forget your dreams and this. Politician, CEO's of big polluting companies should be made to watch ...
Hmm I noticed last night that in my Gmail I had a new label(folder) called circle. Which at first I was sure was just a short cut to my various circles.
Only today I tried to click on it to find out what it all was about. But for some reason it is pulling up my emails, not what is going on in my circles. Most of them do not have anything to do with the names/titles/persons in my circles. ...
Run Zombies! It is the Zombie Rising!
I have always loved to sit down and watch a zombie moives and books about zombies and the age old question : fast or slow? Can have me talking for hours on end.
I have just become hooked to watching the Walking Dead, albeit the weak special effect, see the explosion end of season one, but hey that is not what I'm blogging about.
Shaun of the dead is already classic zombie movie in my eyes ...
Way back when in 1984-86 I was learning this new thing called computers. We had these lovely machines called Piccolo and later upgraded the Piccoline, green screen and big clunky keyboards.
NAME RC759 Piccoline
MANUFACTURER Regnecentralen
TYPE Professional Computer
ORIGIN Denmark
YEAR 1984
END OF PRODUCTION 1989
BUILT IN LANGUAGE None, mostly used with COMAL 80 or PASCAL.
KEYBOARD Full size QWERTY with Danish characters
CPU Intel 80186
SPEED Unknown
RAM 256 KB expandable to 512 KB
VRAM Unknown
ROM ...
This, is right up there with the fact that we send shrimps caught in the North Sea to China to be peeled before they are shipped home to the supermarkets.
Yes it is nice and convenient for us but we need to start thinking about the bigger picture(oh, I have gone all blue sky thinking here :) ) and do more at home and locally.
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I have always been fascinated by knives. I can spend hours looking at them in shops and online. I had a trusty Vangedal knife when I was a scout which I somehow sadly lost. I have gone through my fair share of pocket knives, though these aren't the same as a wood craft knife or hunting knife.
When we were planning our tour I was thinking this would be a great time to get a good working tool for making wood kindle, cutting rope or preparing meat since Peli is vegetarian. This is where the dilemma arose: I wanted a good-looking knife, with a wood handle, nice and wide, since I have big hands. A good sturdy blade that could take some beating from a wood club when making kindle. And around six inches long, so I have something to work ...
I have learnt that it is good to present yourself when you meet a new person. So you call a random phone number or knock on some random front door. It would be great if you tell the person you had summoned who you are and what the purpose of your call. Not to just stand there look at the person who opened the door.
Today two little old ladies rang our door bell, I opened the door and said hallo and was then just stared down. So I waited for them to compose themselves, I wasn't indecent, I have to be known to answer the front door in my boxers. Just as I was about to close the door, the smallest of the dears piped up "you didn't expect us" to which I replied yup!
Then there was another long ...
Am I the only one who thin that UV protective clothing is just a load of ... ? I have never been burned from the sun under my 100% cotton t-shirt or jeans or any other fabric I have worn. It has only been my bare skin that got burned when I was a bit slack on the sun cream.
Over the last few months I have tried to get "frozen" ice cream from the three nearest stores to me.
I have either found them to be defrosted and then frozen again, which you can clearly taste and feel when you eat the ice cream. Or they have been that warm that they nearly had to put shorts and sun cream on in the freezer, go figure.
So I put my fingers to the keyboard and wrote them a email and got this reply the very next day :
Thank you for your email and please accept my apologies for the delay in my reply.
I'm very sorry and concerned to learn that ice cream that you have purchased from three of our stores recently have not been as frozen as you would like. I understand how disappointed you must be about this.
If you asked Random Joe about what product Google have, they would prolly say search, maps and the little more techy would say Gmail. But Google has if not hundreds of program.
If you are not a nerd like me who trawls the techy web sites like BoingBoing, Gizmodo and Lifehacker you will not know anything about the other Google products: Knol, Notebook, Wave, Latitude, Local, Docs, Gtalk etc.
Today I just read that Google have binned two of their products Google PowerMeter and Google Health. This is yet more of Google product got canned which I'm sure that people haven't read or heard about. I had heard about both since I read the techy site, but have never see them advertised. I have seen Google Search (their big money maker), Google Maps (used by TV Stations and a good place ...
Today was the start of my favourite bit of telly on the box ever, Dr. Who. Pretty much the only thing that will stop the world for me, I just have to watch the next episode "live". So today to make sure we didn't miss the start we fired up the box around 20min before and settled in on the settee.
The Beeb had some family game show entertainment thing on, and boy was that crap. Why do we have to be told the very simple rules at least four or was it five times in under five minutes of telly.
The only thing I watch on the box is pretty much just the news, comedy, films and documentaries. "Fly on the wall" docu's, reality shows etc gets my finger twisting on the remote. The best part of bad programs is ...
When your your stomach tells you that what ever you just put into it is not on the list approved goods to import. We all know what happens and I have had some nasty disagreements over the years. And it is always the stomach that the last words at these summits. Then the idea of eating something that is designed to keep what ever
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