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19 Sep 2009

Rediscovering old wallpaper

Posted by gavin. No Comments

I was recently browsing my deviantArt gallery, and looking at the old stuff I created during my Trillian skinning days.

I came across the TechNought wallpaper I made. It, of course, turned out nothing like I was intending. But in the end I was very happy with the result.


TechNought V1 by ~dreadnought on deviantART

And although I often look back at things I made years ago and am unimpressed, I still really like it, and am using it once more as my wallpaper. 1024×768 seems too small to me now though.

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18 Sep 2009

Ocean Mist 2.0 and MapPress

Posted by gavin. No Comments

As part of building this site, I tried to do some google-map embedding.

I tried 2 separate WordPress plugins, MapPress and WP_GMaps2, and I could get neither to work.

After reading the comments on the Ocean Mist website, I found a link to this page which addressed a similar problem with FireStats and this theme.

The solution is fairly simple – it just involved adding

<? php wp_head(); ?>

To header.php

Guess it would apply to any WordPress plugin that tries to add stuff to <head>

I also had to add the following to the stylesheet to get the zoom slider and place markers to show correctly.

#content .mapp-div img {
    background-color: transparent;
}

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18 Sep 2009

Wind of too much change

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As I often do when working on stuff, I like to crank out the youtube music videos to keep my spirits up.

Today, I ran across this

It’s just not quite the same

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18 Sep 2009

Back from Scotland

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Photo of the bay in front of Strome castle

The bay in front of Strome castle

Back from the tour of Scotland 09.

This year, we stayed on the mainland, and headed along the west coast. We got all the way to Cape Wrath, then headed a little east before being forced to return.

Whilst on the holiday, we visited so many great places, I finally feel compelled to do that which I have been meaning to for a while; create this website and keep track of the places I go, the things I see/do etc etc.

So here it is. It will probably be slow going at first, but fingers crossed, eh.

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