Revisiting KMLs
So I am still not happy with my various methods of posting KML files (tracks from my Navionics chartplotter) to the blog while on a cruise. The last method involved using FTP Manager to upload the files from my phone which is a bit clunky and likely to break down in areas of bad internet—which hopefully I encounter lots this summer :-).
Brainstorm
It occurred to me that the Navionics app allowed me to post my tracks to Facebook directly, so there must be a way to leverage that for my WordPress blog. Then I remembered the Post by Email function built into WordPress. What this does is generate a complex email address and any email sent to it automatically posts to the blog. I checked it out again (haven’t looked at it for several versions) and it was vastly improved and no longer needs a specified mail server.
And it allows the use of a great set of shortcodes to provided most of the functionality I normally use.
[category d-autres]
[delay +2 days] [delay +1 hour] [delay 2015-12-01 11:30:00 MST]
[comments on | off]
[status publish | pending | draft | private]
[slug some-url-name]
[title Your post title]
[end] – everything after this shortcode is ignored (i.e. signatures). Make sure it’s on its own line with a blank line above it.
So if I combine my newfound use of Markdown and its shortcuts (previously detailed ) with the email function of the app, I could post directly to my blog with all the text for the blog entry, a thumbnail of the track and a link to the original KML file all in one swoop. Then I could come back later and reset the KML files using the ftp method so they stuck around for posterity.
So, write the blog post in a text-editor using markdown & shortcodes, copy it into the Navionics app on the appropriate Track, and hit send. Simple as pie!
The posts would look like this:
Day 4 Sailing Ho
To day I set sail and sailed the ocean blue in my sailboat powered completely by sails. It was grand!
Track recorded with Navionics App.
View it: http://tinyurl.com/pyp7fsh
Download it: http://tinyurl.com/o863o6f
Now all I need is to get back out on the water…
Friday the Thirteenth
A good day.
In case you are wondering, this is what sets my standard for a good day.
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- Cooperation
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- Just do it.
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- Good anchorages make good neighbours
The St. Albert Yard
When we bought the house in St Albert we got the biggest yard we could find and started from scratch. I loved it for almost seven years before my interest wained and it got away from me. This is 2003, about year three.
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- The alpine garden
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- This shade garden filled in once the hostas took off.
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- The pergola and fruit trees
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- The raised vegetable garden
Simple Communications
Simple, to the point and, hopefully, effective. As much as I am opposed to legislating people to death (helmet laws, seatbelt laws, etc.), I am wholly and completely in favour of education and spending tax dollars in teaching rather than punishing. #whowillyouhelp
This is awesome!
Kathleen Wynne is changing the way Ontario treats sexual violence and harassment.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/ontario-releases-powerful-new-anti-sexual-violence-ad-1.2984460
CiC: Cat-in-Charge
Pete has developed a habit of taking part in all photoshoots. And then Brenda indulges her. Here’s last week’s ‘moments”
The movie star next door.
Random Picture of the Day
Well its coming up to production week again so it’s time for a few days filler.
Leslie at the top of Golf Course Wall in Canmore.
The Kid in Me…
I so want to build one of these. It would amuse me for hours and hours.
Interactive Topographic
Apparently its based on a Kinnect and Xbox. Here are the instructions to build your own!
See this one as well:
So cool!
My cellphone sees…
The @t8nmagazine Photographic Director is supervising another shoot.
Er?
I had (have had, and will likely continue to have) a discussion about what makes a writer, or a singer or a photographer. An -er of some sort. While my views have refined themselves over the years I still hold (mostly) to a definition I came up with in University. An -er is someone who not only produces something, but also maintains a relationship — of a two-way sort — with an audience. There are all sorts of quibbles, exceptions, misunderstandings and outright illogic about it, especially when you talk about/add in things like ego, volume vs quality, the difference between art and craft and what makes a teacher a teacher and not just a teacher. But mostly I stick to it. As Mssr. Henderson of Chilliwack put it, “…if there’s no audience, there just-a ain’t no show. Whoa, whoa.”
By this definitions Emily Dickinson was not a poet (or poeter as I like to call them). When I repeat that, it generally makes Leslie cringe.
Banksy, on the other hand, is all sorts of -er. I don’t know what other people think about that.
