Welcome to the weirdness...

Welcome to my site of Doom!

This site now has a kinda splodge of my activities across the web from flickr to twitter and even youtube.

Other random pages include Delicious links, a php photo gallery experiment and some other random stuff.
Oh and this page is for a little blog thing that I will update occasionally...doing ok so far! Just need to post something more interesting now...

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Blogging of blogness

It's been quiet... · 29 days ago by Wendy

On my site that is!
Since April it’s pretty much been due to health issues but apart from that I have no excuses other than I don’t really know what to write here :P

Was playing with setting up a new place for the Edinburgh Wild Geese Sangha site (maintenance was a favor for my Dad) so I don’t have to be asked to edit it and then wait for someone else to upload stuff.

Thus the wordpress site was created!
Wild Geese Sangha Edinburgh

I think the re-direct from the old to new is still being sorted.

But, can’t worry about that now, I have a London party to go to tomorrow!

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Le sigh · 209 days ago by Wendy

I will get this to update twitter when I post, one day!

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Testing and Twitter being a pain in the ass · 373 days ago by Wendy

So this is me testing if this posts a link to twitter when I add a new post.

This is also me going AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH at Twitter being a pain in the ass at communicating with 3rd party apps. The kml_twitter textpattern plugin i’ve been using for ages suddenly stopped working today.
After tweeting about this hiccup it turns out that multiple people have had the same issues.

It also comes at a time when they still haven’t fixed a rather massive security problem and getting round this mostly involves…. yup, using third party apps!!

Needless to say that I’m pissed of that A) They’ve been around this long and still have holes this big in their security and that B) Despite their user base blatantly increasing, they still can’t give us a smooth service, sometimes even breaking the sites that use the twitter output.

Gaaah *goes to blow things up*

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Work + Time + Brain = buh? · 375 days ago by Wendy

I got through a lot of reports today, trying to get ahead for when I FLEE on holiday to Malta for a week.

This graph represents my brain for today (and many days)

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The result of work and late nights... · 379 days ago by Wendy

And maybe a sign that I’ve been playing a liiiiitle bit too much Little Big Planet :

This is a genuine graph from my work, I didn’t make it up :P

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Just do it! · 420 days ago by Wendy

Well, it’s not perfect by any means, but I’ve made the TOTW page live with the twitter output going through Yahoo pipes.

It SHOULD spit out pictures that have been tagged, links to last FM stuff that I’ve clicked the “love” button on and links to things that are funny/cute etc but aren’t pictures :P I’ll try and do that for pics that will break the page.

My Eee PC squeezes the columns together too much so the pics usually get pushed down the page but most screens should be ok with it…. fingers crossed!

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Yahoo pipes and stuffs · 523 days ago by Wendy

So, been playing more with yahoo pipes, but not with my own.
Still can’t get my experimental page to keep the history of the rss output from my filtered tweets.
Still, bought some shiny anime, including Karas, so shall be distracted by that for the rest of the day.

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Lazy/busyness · 544 days ago by Wendy

Can that happen? I guess it does! I’m sure I’ll update this summore when I have time to breath. My lack of knowledge in php is hindering my mini projects somewhat, but I’ll get there… I hope.

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The Brain, it hurts! Blame Yahoo Pipes · 570 days ago by Wendy

If you (by the very very slim chance that anyone reads this) have noticed the #wtf, #lol and #cute tags I’ve been using on my twitter, then you might’ve been going “what’s with all these tags now?!” Or not… which is much more likely…

Well, I suddenly had an idea when someone at work said they liked my “daily dose” of cute or lol things etc. My TOTW page doesn’t really do anything atm, cos, well… it was just a flakey idea really SO I thought “hmm I’ve got a plugin that posts my tweets, and I know I can filter by # tags!”

BUT

I went one step further, just to melt my brain, I wanted the images I posted to come out too, without needing to follow a URL.
Enter Yahoo Pipes! As suggested by the loverly Andrew Girdwood when I mentioned the idea.

So, it now involves twitter rss feed grabbing, feed filtering by tag, feed stripping in the description of any jibberish before the URL and then turning the URL into the Image tag of w00t!
Then discovered that I tweet too much for the totw page to keep enough images (oops!)

So I now have to use a second yahoo pipe to grab the feed of the first and spit it out as a second feed /*breathes*/

NOW all I need to do is use a re-sizing script so that I can make the images smaller and keep the correct aspect ratio. I’d do this with the same dimensions with all of them except they’re not all the same size… so go* squish*. Have tried using percentages but only shiny up-to-date browsers cope with that properly, ah well.

Lots of fiddling ahead for me and the totw page! I’ll update the links to the new one once I’m happy with it and it’s not so prone to breaking :P

Oh what an interesting post that was!

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Mmmm htaccess · 577 days ago by Wendy

Found one thing that’s a bit annoying about textpattern, it has its own rule in the htaccess for index.php which means it’s just that bit more difficult to stop google indexing duplicate homepageness!
But, I’ve changed all the links in the hope that it’s enough, you’ll only get there if you type it in…and it’ll look exactly the same :P

Ah fun times falls over

Oh, also means that if I try to get all non www urls to go to www. ...then it just goes to index.php…Meh!

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