I have been in Round Table for a few years now, and really should have known better than to admit I worked in the computing industry – I got “volunteered” to manage the existing website. Me and my big mouth… But after a while I decided I would like to modernise the rather traditional and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Blogging'
Community websites on the cheap
September 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Blogging, Life
Tags: community·Flickr·GoogleApps·Roundtable·Twitter·websites·Wordpress
More on Google Maps in WordPress
July 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Blogging, Google Earth/Maps
A quick follow up on the post a couple of months ago about my quest to find a simple way of embedding Google Maps in WordPress blogs. Just to recap, the main issue I had was finding a way of embedding custom maps. While I still have yet to find a solution to self-hosted WordPress [...]
Tags: Google maps·Wordpress
Blog makeover
May 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Blogging, Google Earth/Maps, Photography
Just a quick note to describe some recent changes to this site. I’ve changed the template from the attractive but not easily configurable “Feather” theme to Chris Pearson’s “Cutline 3 column” one. The initial advantage of this was it was easy to set up my own header images to be my own photos rather than [...]
Tags: Wordpress
Google maps in WordPress
May 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Google Earth/Maps
I have been creating my own Google maps a lot recently, largely in support of an upcoming attempt at the 3 Peaks 24 hour challenge – hiking up the three highest mountains in the UK all in 24 hours. I’ve got various maps for the three hiking trails, plus a few put together to help [...]
Tags: Google maps·Wordpress
Posing Robin
April 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Blogging, Photography
While out walking one chilly morning in Attenborough nature reserve I spotted this Robin. Luckily for me he was in posing mood and I managed to get pretty close with my 200mm lens. The image is uncropped – I got within just a few feet of him. I got some nice comments on the image [...]
Sign of a bad blog….
April 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Blogging, Photography
The sign of a bad blog is that it hardly ever gets updates. In other words, this one! It’s hard to believe that six months have gone by without a single new posting, which is rather poor of me. My only excuse is that I have a life, and finding time to write some coherent [...]
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Blog title change
July 13th, 2007 · No Comments · Blogging
I’ve changed the title from the rather inane “Greg’s Techie Stuff” to the snappier “Bytes & Pixels”. No particular reason, other than it is better than “Bits and Pieces”, and I have a rubbish imagination for things like titles. Any suggestions welcome – not that anyone actually reads this site… It also reflects what I [...]
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Formatting code in WordPress
January 11th, 2007 · No Comments · Blogging
What a pain in the rear! WordPress appears nice as a blogging tool, but my attempts to format some code snippets was painful beyond belief. Every time I pasted some code in and surrounded it with the code tags, the generated HTML had extra paragraph markers and line breaks, and screwed up the position of [...]
Tags: programming·Wordpress