Yes I read it.
No, it wasn’t anything exceptional, just a typical end to a boilerplate fantasy tale with all the right ingredients.
No, I didn’t spot any genius in the writing.
No, I don’t see what the fuss is all about.
Yes, I feel that every blog post (this one included) that has nothing intelligent to say should be considered spam.
No, I don’t want to hear about how bad your last few hours were while you waited for the book to arrive.
Yes, I’m glad its finally over.
No, I won’t watch the movie.
Yes, Rowling loves you.
Moving hosting to Linux
I’ve had enough of webhost4life and Windows hosting, and will be moving to a (borrowed) Linux based server today. The move will change the DNS, so the blog may be inaccessible for a day or so.
I’ll leave this subdomain running for a while, but I’m expecting the URLs to get prettier (no more /index.php/), so check https://reallyvirtual.com tomorrow to update your feed/bookmarks etc.
WordPress Comments Messed Up with Redirection … and the Hack
Read the comments 🙂
I Built the Empire State Building
There this Indonesian Lotte Puzzle gum sold for Rs.10 (18 cents) these days which comes with two gum sticks and a cardboard/plastic model/puzzle pieces that my son really likes. Last week we got the Taj Mahal, this week it was the Empire State Building. There are no instructions (uh its a puzzle), so I saved some time by (secretly) cheating and made this:
I didn’t get my gum share though :-/
WordPress Image Gallery Woes
Why is it so hard to have a photo album integrated into WP?!
I have thousands of pictures on my harddisk taken over the last 10 years or so that I want to upload, Flickr doesn’t give the control that I want. This week, I took out my rusty Canon G6 (well, not rusty but it might as well be) after one year to teach my son how to take pictures, and thought I might as well set up a photo album here.
So I’ve spent the last 2 hours searching for WP plugins (not standalone albums) and thought I found a good one – Word Press Photo Album , uploaded it, configured it as required… but it just won’t work!
Its not letting me create a default album, and shows no errors. After some debugging (PHP is not my language), it seems that the form variables are not getting through, and the relevant function wppa_add_album is not called… so I entered the record manually in the database just to get started… the album showed up but now adding images shows the same behavior 🙁
Maybe its the WordPress version, maybe its my host, maybe its something else… but I’m giving up now. I guess I’ll wait for a future WP version that has a built-in album.
Here’s my son, trying to give a ‘big smile’
If you know of an easy to install integrated album for WP, please let me know.