All of a sudden the places map isnt showing just a grey screen. Everything I tried just didnt get it to show any more. Eventually I found a solution that worked. I went to preferences -> advanced and set the dont look up places automatically to never. Quit Iphoto and restarted it. I then set it back to automatic and the places map shows straight away. Wierd but it now works.
Just got the new Macbook Pro and after transferring from my old Macbook it seemed it couldnt actually set the time correctly was always an hour behind. The problem was actually the timezone as it just said GMT in the closest city. After a little bit of tickering I realised that that the localtime folder should be a symbolic link to /usr/share/timezone/<timezone> and instead a physical folder had been copied over during the transfer and was sitting in /etc.
The way to fix this is to open your finder window and click on go->go to folder and type in /etc then then delete the folder. Then you can set the time zone correctly.
Thought you would like that title, well my neighbour Alex Pool is off to China to be part of Panda breeding programme for three weeks. He is running a blog if you want to keep up with his exploits.
Lets hope he publishes some pictures of them as they are so cute. Thats if China doesnt censor it all.
Any way I will be following his blog to see what he gets up to. Link to his blog is in the blogroll section of the links on the right hand side of this blog. Actually any one looking at my blogroll would think I am a nutter (which I am) but what a mixture of titles !!!
Went to buy some Duchy Elderflower Refresher in my local Waitrose
and couldnt find a drop, now its my favourite summer drink. Was told by an assistant that Duchy are changing their packaging and until that is finalised Waitrose were temporarily not stocking the product.
Weird, I have emailed HRH Prince Charles personally to find out what is happening !!! Will keep you updated of any response from him.
Ok go to your applications folder on your mac within the finder window. Right click the iphoto application icon and click show contents. Browse to the plugins folder and look for a folder named the same as the exporter your looking to remove.
Delete the folder that is the same name as the exporter your trying to delete and bobs your uncle – the exporter will be removed next time you start IPhoto.
Ok so searched high and low for this and finally found out that it was my theme that I had added which was wrong. Look for feed_rss2.php in wp-includes and look for some code in there, that uses use_excerpt_rss my theme used this whether the rss setting->full (rather than summary) was selected or not in the settings->reading.
If you change the else to be “the_content()” rather than “the_excerpt_rss()” it works. Your images are sent in the description so then the rss readers can read the whole article.
Was looking through my pictures and found two of my very old machines that I built a few years back.
The standard themes that come with wordpress are OK !! but if you want something really good / different you have to go elsewhere. I found quite a lot of themes on WordPress Themes and particularly liked the Modern Sofa 10 theme.
This is particularly relevant these days as I am always falling asleep on the sofa and wake up in the early hours of the morning.
It was a good starting point but something were lacking which I modified by hand ie. put the title on the search box, modified the footer to take out the advertising etc etc. There are still somethings that arent quite right for instance the tag cloud isnt formated properly but that is not the themes problem that is a problem with the tag cloud that comes standard with wordpress as it really needs a tag cloud div html tag created around it. When I have more time I will try to sort that out.
Any way think it looks quite alright for the mo….
Using the carrington theme and after switching to permalinks I noticed that the wordpress search doesnt seem to work. Not sure if this is by design or what. After a little bit of scrabbling around I decided to hack the scripts so I changed the search.php script which sits in themes/carrington-blog/forms. I commented out the permalinks section of the if like so
/*
if (get_option('permalink_structure') != '') {
$onsubmit = "location.href=this.action+
'search/'+encodeURIComponent(this.s.value).replace(/%20/g, '+'); return false;";
}
else {
*/
$onsubmit = '';
//}
so that it always does the non permalink bit whether or not it is selected. Seems to work still, all comments welcomed on this.
Well tried several and dont think any of them are that good. For one thing that is a problem is that google only seems to work in internet explorer which I guess is by design. I cant get any of the google adsense stuff to appear on my wordpress blog using firefox to surf the pages – unless my adblocker is stopping them but I dont think its configured for it. Any ideas any one am I being a really silly person as normal ???