http://www.steve-c.co.uk Stephen Courtney's Blog Tue, 06 May 2008 06:36:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Finally, - we've had some proper Spring weather, so it was a chance to go to Mottistone and look at the Bluebells. (And also to see if my N95's GPS linked camera would play nicely - which it did!). Also discovered that Gorse bushes appear to smell of Coconut! http://www.steve-c.co.uk/2008/05/06/spring-weather/ I've updated The Wight One to be Widget capable, - surprisingly easy thing to do. The main reason for doing it was so that I could make use of the ReadySetFlickr plugin in order to display images from my Flickr account. Once I'm happy that the theme's working (and when ... http://www.steve-c.co.uk/2008/05/04/widgets-and-other-such-niceities/ If anyone's after a meal in the West Wight, I can recommend the re-vamped Three Bishops in Brighstone - I'm just off there now. http://www.steve-c.co.uk/2008/04/27/decent-food-in-west-wight/ As you might have noticed the site's now sporting a new theme. It's not quite complete yet, but the main design is pretty much sorted. I'm calling it 'The Wight One', for fairly self-explanatory reasons. A number of the tweaks and features are inspired by Matt Mullenweg's new site but ... http://www.steve-c.co.uk/2008/04/27/new-look-site/ The IWSO concert at the weekend went pretty well in the end, - despite the fact that we were unable to perform Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 that we'd prepared (we're still trying to work out exactly what happened with that one). Chiao-Ying Chang, the pianist instead performed a Liszt ... http://www.steve-c.co.uk/2008/04/21/concerts-and-colds/ Typical, just when I've gone round various sites, checking that they're all up-to-date with WordPress, they go and officially release version 2.5! I'll hang back a while before upgrading though, since I'm intending to change my theme anyway, and also that used on the DataSwift website. http://www.steve-c.co.uk/2008/03/29/wordpress-25/ Xara (now owned by German developer Magix) have just released a preview of the new version of their flagship Xtreme Pro. Version 4 (available in both Pro and non-Pro variants) has a bunch of new stuff, but the best things I've found so far are: Automatically flows text around shapes Integrated 3D ... http://www.steve-c.co.uk/2008/03/28/xara-xtreme-pro-4/ I've been following the Roundcube Webmail Project for a while now, and yesterday evening it reached 0.1-stable - the first officially stable release. It's an AJAX-based webmail system, running on PHP, with preferably MySQL for a backend database (although others are available). It's pretty cool, looking much nicer than Squirrelmail ... http://www.steve-c.co.uk/2008/03/04/roundcube-reaches-01/ I've just noticed that the SEGfL link for the Island Schools' Internet connections is now back up and running again. Let's hope it stays fixed! http://www.steve-c.co.uk/2008/01/09/fixed/ It looks like the schools on the Island are going to be without Internet for a third day - unless BT fix things overnight. Apparently there's an power-related issue at County Hall - schools are able to reach as far as there, but no further. I imagine that there's a lot ... http://www.steve-c.co.uk/2008/01/08/still-no-internet-for-isle-of-wight-schools/