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dw — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:19:23 +0000

i have a soft spot for “single serving website” (i.e. websites that provide only one single piece of information). a few months back i had an idea for one of those pages – using it as a way for me to learn a few things, i wasnt able to get it to work out but this time i was able to get another idea from 0 to working in a few hours.

it can be difficult to remember exactly when all the super markets close here in helsinki – all sundays in spring they are closed, then they open up – but not the next sunday after that (as its finnish mothers day). then they open up again. can cause some confusion.

a few hours spent messing with phpicalendar, its template, css and javascript files. its not perfect, its not even all that useful to pretty much everyone on the planet – but thats what the internet is all about. ishelsinkiopen.com

messing

dw — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:37:07 +0000

messing with themes. my old theme wasnt compatible with wordpress 2,3 so im messing with a new theme and will mess with that to get the look i want. but thats for tomorrow

moved

dw — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:11:58 +0000

just moved over to wordpress. will set up proper redirects from blogger html to wordpress php and / or new (location) blogger html tomorrow.

the rss feed for this blog is available here.

back to regular programming soon.

break

dw — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:59:30 +0000

going to be taking a little break from here for a few weeks – going to denmark/iceland later this week for a little while and im also moving from blogger to wordpress – so i gotta design a theme (how come nearly all wordpress themes look like “wordpress themes”? gotta learn some css too).

back in late october. email or sms!

woah

dw — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:49:00 +0000

ryanair bids for aer lingus!

(on an aside – i tried to publish this post 13hours ago when the news was just announced on the radio – but alas blogger.com refused to connect and publish it – not for the first time either. wordpress here i come)

album

dw — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:22:00 +0000

woo! i had give up trying to get wordpress talking to flickr – a plugin available to display all flickr sets as albums on my own site just didnt/wouldnt work. i read then about falbum and i got it and installed it and hey presto! it worked. then i messed/chopped up/hacked the css and default theme to get it working. go look here!.

(i still run this blog using blogger – i just have an empty wordpress on my servers too just for this plugin)

goddam

dw — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:17:37 +0000

“the server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.”

blogger tests darren.

updates

dw — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:53:33 +0000

i changed the commenting system on here from haloscan to bloggers own in built one. they have improved their system a lot.

i got a job (2 days a week), i start in a few weeks after i get back from holidays.

my phone is dying. dying dying dying. it stops when i want to sms, shuts down when i need it to show my sms ticket to the train inspector and basically having the nokia equivilant of the microsoft blue screen of death. so i am on the look out for a new one. with a radio would be nice, a camera would be cool but not essential (i carry my digicam with me all the time anyhoo) and also a nice memory card storage thingy so i can listen to mp3s (and i dont have to buy a seperate mp3 player). anyone know when the 3230 is coming out?

fancy

dw — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 20:21:02 +0000

every since i got the website upgraded last week ive been spending time messing around with the new functions and programmes i can install on the website. i now have php and all that stuff, so all manner of exciting new things are open to me.

i installed wordpress and uninstalled it about five times. dont know why. i spent hours messing around with the inner workings of movabletype 3 to see if i could use it for my links blog, after a day or so i went back to blogger. movable type is a great system, but to be honest i think id have to spend hours and hours to give it the look i have already using blogger.

ive been looking for a gallery programme to display images, i wanted something very simple with not too much fuss. i couldnt find that so i found one php gallery programme that had me up till 2am last night messing around with debugging stuff, and after all that it still wouldnt work and i wasnt too happy with the look of it anyway, so i got rid of it. then i happened upon a small simple programme that takes the images and does it all for you with about 10minutes of setting up. so im gonna be putting up lots of images to my “kuva” (means picture in finnish) area from now on. i still have the colours and folder descriptions to sort out on it, but so far so good.

wrap up

dw — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:45:41 +0000

the new updated blogger (a month old now) implemented a commenting system that isnt very good (its only one or two steps from being properly useable). so i went back to holoscan (the one ive been using for the preceeding six months or so).

the interview and test went sort of okay. my method of preperation (not speaking any finnish for the last two weeks) didnt help me too much. i stumbled over a few lines here and there and the interview part was me mumbling random stuff. the drawings (four drawings of a northern italian town) came out okay. i was very nervous last night and i couldnt sleep until 3am i think. i have no idea as to when the results are out. fingers crossed.

things are cranking up and up for this weekend. our “wine and cheese” party. alice should be here thursday, sara will be here friday and some of saras friends come aswell for the party. that reminds me, i need to send out the email invitations.