05 Jan 2005
Scanning is dealt with. Finis. Problem resolved, utterly. Cross-platform happiness — remote access, even! Printing likewise. What’s left? The biggest issue of all… possibly. Depends on what pretty GUI tools and the like exist, I suppose… learning new systems in small timeframes is never really fun, but the learning curve shouldn’t be too dangerous. A few thousand dollar dangerous. Paperweight dangerous. Hardly! The paperweight wouldn’t be heavy enough to hold down paper! Ah, breadbox computing.
If this post makes no sense whatsoever to you, good. That was my intention. It’d be no fun letting the cat out of the bag before I had lots of cute pictures of the cat to show you all… so there’s a wait, until I get all this up and running, then I can start my geek boasting. No, this post is mostly about links. Smart cookies will likely have a moderately good idea what’s cooking, if they think about it, but the project should still hold a degree of excitement (hey, I know exactly what’s going on, I’m as excited as anyone!). In the (at this point) highly unlikely event that the whole concept falls apart horrendously, that will likewise be communicated in the fullness of time, along with the original intended idea and proposed course of action. Having said that, I plan to spend at least part of tomorrow morning organising hardware…
31 Dec 2004
Dale was searching for some RSS stuff on this site, and discovered that he was only getting seven results (the same number as my default display for the front page) — and that the same problem existed with the month archive display. He thinks it used to work just fine, and I had thought it did, too, but I’m not really sure what I changed to break it. So, in a dodgy-ish patch, I’ve added next/previous page links to the bottom of each page. This works on search results, as well as monthly archives and the front page.
The code I’m using for these page links, just in case anyone’s interested, is as follow (obviously the CSS/formatting stuff is optional):
<p style="margin:10px;background:#D3D3D3;color:#404040;"><?php posts_nav_link(' ', __('<span style="float:left">« Previous Page</span>'), __('<span style="float:right">Next Page »</span>')); ?></p>
The essential PHP stuff only is:
<?php posts_nav_link(' ', __('« Previous Page'), __('Next Page »')); ?>
Hope this makes life easier!
This is for the WordPress blogging system, and is used to add next and previous page links to the end of a document. Further information can be found on the WordPress wiki, on the article entitled “Template Tags“.
31 Dec 2004
I’m not going to be in Sydney until January 6 or thereabouts, but I hope everyone enjoys their various NYE celebrations and stays safe, etc. I’ll be in Canberra as of tonight, without any foreseen ‘net access — I will, however, have my mobile with me (the number is on my Contact page, right column), should anyone urgently wish to get in touch… yeah, right ;)
Happy New Year!
30 Dec 2004
Perhaps more exciting for me than anyone else, although most geek-minded people will probably jump up and down a little bit over the fun I’m going to be having with some things in the near future.
No, I’m not saying exactly what yet. Something vague? OpenLDAP, Samba as a PDC, quiet, uptime. Watch this space.
27 Dec 2004
No broken strings. I’m here, but am just about to disappear again until post-NYE. Which is kind of lame, seeing NYE in Sydney or at least with friends beats NYE anywhere else with family, but you get that. Hope everyone’s been having a great Christmas and the like, and I’ll try to break the string and stick around some time in the not-too-distant future.
p.s. We’ve bought a house, which, for all interested/caring, can be seen on the Domain website. The listed price isn’t what we paid, but it’s fairly close. Yeah, it’s really really big. It’s also really really glassy. I’ll post some more/better pics when we actually move in, which is scheduled to be sometime in late January (around Australia Day — that’s January 26).