Crow
Cor!
Erm, swift update - I’ve just been informed it’s not a crow, it’s just a black pigeon - sorry.
PaulSeward.com
A photo a day is too hard when you’re shooting film, but I’m digital now. Rah!
Site wobbles
Yes, I know the site is wobbling and all the pictures have vanished. You can all stop emailing me about it.
I made the stupid mistake of trying to upgrade the software that runs the site - and it seems that the new version of the software uses *significantly* different urls for the photos - so different infact that I can’t easily craft a set of rewrite rules to fix things transparently.
So I’m going to do it by hand.
I’ll update this post with my progress.
Update: 1am Wednesday - I’m going to have to do this by hand editing every single sodding blog post. All 127 of them. I’m not realistically going to manage to do that all in one go so I’ll do it a bit at a time over the next few evenings.
Update: 1:40am Wednesday - I’ve done March/April and I’m now making mistakes, so I’m going to bed.
Update: 21:15 Wednesday - I’ve done February - and am having a break for some food. I should really take a photo for today at some point
Update: 23:25 Saturday - I’ve done back as far as August.
Update: 17:47 Sunday - I’ve fixed all broken image links. At last.
Update: 19:00 Sunday - Introduced the “Archives” menu, fixed up the photoalbum theme
Update: 19:40 Sunday - Imported all the image names and descriptions from the old database
Update: 20:25 Sunday - The albums are, for the most part, now in chronological order. There is a quirk with february - but it’ll do.
Still ToDo:
Fix up Feb / Jan / earlier postsFix the “Photo albums” menu to work with the new gallery softwareImport the gallery/album/image titles from the old (and incompatible) databasePick through the new software and re-order the galleries in reverse chronological orderFix the stylesheet so it matches what I used to have- expose image ratings on blog posts (one of the two main reasons for upgrading)
If I ever decide to start a forklift upgrade of the code at 10:30pm - somebody slap me.
Clearing out
I’ve been rummaging through a number of boxes, which I’ve been meaning to sort through for years. I’ve found something rather special.
It’s the receipt from my first ever juggling convention. Over the last few years, it’s bothered me that I can’t quite pin down which year I started juggling in. One of the landmarks I had been unable to pin down was my first convention.
I was there for a single day - Sat 2nd Oct 1993 - It doesn’t really help me to date when I learnt to juggle though, but I remember being able to juggle clubs by that point. I also remember Mushy Pea Jon, compering the games, wearing a chicken suit and standing on a step ladder.