Camera Phone

This is an image from Bill’s Camera phone… resized to 480px using a droplet in ImageReady and uploaded via the upload function in WordPress. The next step is to install ImageMagick on the Xserve and try this again with Image Manager plugin on enjoygardening.com

Rip and Grip 2

Rip and Grip November is over and I placed 5th in the intermediate again. Actaully I tied for 4th but Nemesis Dan Racette beat me in R & G October so he’s ahead…

       
Name
Rip & Grip
Big Rocker
October
Total
Troy Grinde
12530
0
10160
22690
Jacob Waughtal
12100
0
13460
25560
Miles Adamson
11880
56
12530
24410
Dan Racette
11480
204
11520
23000
Bruce Keith
11480
0
11470
22950

I seem to have a block for problem 17 but I’ll try it again on Wednesday and I bet I get it. Totally pumped and I hated the hold that kept knocking me off.

L on the other hand seems to be on a role and is just rippin’ and grippin’. Zak and I better watch out or we will find ourselves with the possibility of looking old and boring. I beat Peggy P’s effort on one route (I think it was 14) but man is she graceful… she made it look much easier than I ever could. I wanged away at 18 for a while but I couldn’t get past the 3rd move. Zak’s.

If you’ve no idea what this is all about you can check out last year’s comps here. Look close and you’ll see L and maybe even Zak’s toque.

Grrrrrrr… ip?

ImageMagick and more…

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This on the other hand is an image uploaded and resized using the below software.

I had to reconvert the image as the original file was not resized but just resized on the fly witht the html. It seems I had no idea where ImageMagick’s binaries resided… They are in /sw/bin/ FYI. It looks like the installation is done and it works. It remains to be seen if I can do the same thing on the XServe at work…

WordPress

So I screwed Blojsom by trying to make some room on the server. Something to do with JBOSS or Tomcat. Rather than fix it, I’m now moving back to WordPress. I’ve been using it at work and I like the flexibility.

I solved the multiple blog thing by the simplest means possible…googling it. If you install multiple copies in different directories and then make separate mysql databases then it works just fine. Witness Zak’s Blog!

Now I’ve got to rebuild the templates but it should be easier the second time.

Cioa

flavor.properties

To select you own themes that haven’t been uploaded (still working on that) edit flavor.properties to read

html=”your main template”.vm

Where O’ Where…

Finally found the pesky flat files for Blojsom. They reside in /private/var/root/blojsom-blogs/ I found them by resorting to opening the properties files one-by-one. The clue came from blojsom.properties of course.

What is interesting is I can’t go to this directory without logging in as root (su) and then when I do it shows me as being in ~/blojsom-blogs root#

I have no idea…

Bruce Tries WordPress

WordPress seems a more reasonable program for blogs and is based on php rather than java. The downside seems to be it is limited to one blog per server. Blojsom offers more variety but I find the interface clunky and the categories hard to manage… I’ll keep looking into it…

B