Shifting stuff around
Why is it that shifting stuff from one blog host to another is so awkward? It’s even awkward when moving stuff from a self-hosted WordPress site to a freebie wordpress.com site. Grrrrr.
For now, here are some photos that used to appear on my temporary, experimental, wordpress.com site. At some point, I think that will become my permanent blogging home, because although this place is nice and flexible, I think I’ve exhausted what I want to do with it by way of fiddling and tinkering. The wordpress.com freebie is fine, and it handles sl postcards better anyway. I’ll find some way to package up everything that’s on this site into perhaps one file, or one file per posting (ideas for that, anyone?), then move the domain name over at some point too.
Enmeshed
Enmeshed
There’s no better way to describe the two of us. Enmeshed, in each other.
Vextra. Me. Couch. Perfect.
Email and Posterous, again
If you’ve read here before, you know I like fiddling. Among other things, I like to send postcards from the sl client to this hosted WordPress blog. It’s possible to email articles, even sl postcards with their unique format, to a blog at wordpress.com these days (the ability has only recently become available), and they arrive relatively unmolested, which is impressive. But posting to an externally hosted installation requires configuring plugins to the wordpress install which can grab and successfully decode email. I’ve tried several over the last two years. None works reliably. If it’s possible on a wordpress.com blog, you’d think it was possible on an externally hosted one, but – unless I’m missing something obvious – it’s not.
The alternative I’ve used to get around this problem is ‘Posterous‘. It makes sending postcards from the sl client to a WordPress blog much easier, but it’s not without its own issues. For one thing, it forwards a link to any images in the posting, rather than the image itself – which is ok, unless you ever edit or delete the Posterous blog. The second thing which annoys me is that every sl postcard comes with a section beneath the main image, which contains a slurl and the sl logo – and it’s a nuisance to have to manually edit these out if you don’t want the boring repetition.
Now, I’ve discovered that if you end the text portion of the postcard with ‘#end ‘ (ignoring my quote marks), Posterous conveniently dumps everything that follow – which means the slurl and the logo aren’t passed on to the blog.
Sometimes it’s useful to include the location, other times it’s not, but it’s good to have the option.
All I need now is to find a way to copy the image itself over, rather than just the link.
Winter balcony
Yet more hair
Reason's greetings!
Just for the sake of being a little contentious, I thought I’d throw this in. You may already have realised that I’m not the religious type. The subject of atheism / agnosticism / humanism / other-isms isn’t something I usually raise in this little blog of mine.
At this time of year, people ask me why I bother with Christmas if I don’t believe in god. They forget, of course, that belief in a god does not require belief in Christmas (other religions get along quite well without Christmas, it seems). Then a while ago I came across this thought (I can’t remember where), which serves me quite well as a reply:
If you understand why you reject all those other gods, then you understand why I reject yours
The need for reassurance at this time of the year – when the days get shorter, and the weather gets colder – is age old. If it helps to believe that it needs a god to keep pushing our planet around the Sun until Spring arrives, that’s ok. Just don’t expect me to believe it too. (From a very young age, I could never get a good answer to this question: “Why does Australia have its Wnter celebration in their Summer ?”)
Anyway, I thought I’d also throw in a link to the Humanist Society, and Richard Dawkins ‘OUT’ campaign, for good measure.
It’s my little effort to stem the tide, belatedly, that overwhelms the world at this time of year, in one flavour or another.
Happy Solstice!
Another photographer…
A photographer…
Triton Flatley, Photographer
and his work…
Me, by Triton Flatley
