16 Jun 2009
Well, I finally got around to upgrading WordPress again. I made a fairly prodigious leap from 2.5(.somethingsomething) to 2.8 in one step, with pleasantly few hiccups.
In fact, the only significant hiccup I faced prevented me from logging in at all (fairly significant), giving a charming error: “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
This happened after I went to update my wp-config.php file to incorporate a circa-2.6 innovation, Security Keys. AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY, LOGGED_IN_KEY and NONCE_KEY added to my wp-config, I attempted to login to the admin area again (it auto-logged me out, fair enough) to be greeted with the aforementioned non-negotiable error!
Turns out it was a pretty stupid problem I had… If you get this, check you have inserted the key definitions before the “Stop editing” comment in the document (I think the comment is different in later versions — my wp-config is seriously ancient, I’ve been upgrading since 0.73 and would only have started from scratch if at some past point it was required!)
Once I did this the errors went away entirely and I was able to login.
09 Sep 2008
I should’ve known that some dude in a camera shop in Alice Springs wouldn’t know a whole lot about dSLRs. Stereotype fulfilled. By the time I got to Alice about a month ago, my D60′s eyecup was starting to fall apart and I wanted to get a replacement. The guy was unsure if such a thing existed and recommended a bit of superglue. I suddenly got very protective of the D60 body… no crazy outback solutions here, please!
Anyway. DK-20 is the eyecup part and it cost me all of $3.50 on eBay — it’s alarmingly genuine, too!
When I found it I was pretty thankful that the guy in Alice hadn’t had a clue… probably would’ve cost at least three times that!
08 Sep 2008
If someone feels called or led or like God spoke to them… no-one knows what to do.
– Mark Driscoll
I actually laughed aloud hearing him say this. It’s really sad but so completely upside down I find it kind of hilarious. Mad world.
26 Aug 2008
This is the one thing that’s totally been annoying me ever since I got this camera. I love it in pretty much every other respect, and, despite enjoying the D80′s top LCD display and extra physical controls (got to use this body for a couple of weeks with work), am still completely convinced it’s the best-value DSLR available today. With the D90 getting official tomorrow, the D80 will probably fall towards the current D60 price point, but still… D60s are the best!
I would’ve been happy with a D40x but there was really no price difference between the two, so whatever.
Anyway: pet peeve that I just solved. File numbering is, by default, non-sequential for every time you empty the SD card! There was no obvious setting to this effect, but that is because, it turns out, settings are hidden by default.
Using the menu, navigate under Setup Menu to “CSM/Setup menu” and select “Full”.
This will reveal more options. Scroll down to the next page of options and select “File no. sequence” and “On”. Importantly in this area is the “Reset” function for if you actually do want to reset between shoots.
Normally I’d be pretty happy with the default behavior, but having recently been doing large-ish travel stints that involve shooting photos that I was syncing as I went more for security (if the camera/card got damaged) than out of actual necessity. As regular shoots would be over more quickly it’s less of an issue for day-to-day use, but I’m lots happier now I know the option’s there!
21 Aug 2008
I’ve been doing the low-bandwidth mobile thing for the past two months due to travel and had accordingly been reserving judgment JUST IN CASE that had anything at all to do with it. But it really doesn’t. Outlook 2007 is an absolute loser of a product. No other software on my computer is as visibly frustrating or unstable. It’s being used with three POP accounts (all mostly well behaved) and one IMAP store (unmitigated disaster) that work fine with other clients. This shouldn’t be so hard to get right. I don’t like having to use webmail, though at least it’s very good webmail.
These are the sort of niggly problems that make OS X look appealing… Mail.app is integrated with OS search and all that other stuff so nicely. Calendars and Contacts are no longer compellingly better on Outlook than elsewhere. In fact, between Sony Ericsson and Microsoft, various contacts in my phone managed to get junked because of character encoding issues — even when using a language installed on both phone and sync computer.
Email is a freakin’ ancient tech. Why can’t this just be straightforward, Microsoft?