Author Archives: Donncha

A Night at the Opera (House)

I went to see Calexico the other night. They played in the Opera House here in Cork on Wednesday night and for some reason I forgot to blog this event! (oh yeah, you don’t need to know everything about me do you?)
Anyhow, Calexico were .. good, not great, but good. I think everyone was waiting for Alone Again Or which has been played quite often by Ryan Tubridy. They played that near the end of the night and thankfully I woke up just minutes before. Oh, did I forget to tell you I fell asleep? Sorry, the rest of their music just didn’t do anything for me. (Apologies to Calexico fans who come here via Google, leave a comment if you want to vent your anger!)
In fact, the support band, Fred were excellent! My foot tapped along to their tunes, they looked like they really enjoyed playing and there was good rapport (thanks pron@#linux) between band members.
On the way back to the car I bumped into one of Fred’s lovely violin players. She was giving directions to a group of lads over from Wales and I recognised her from earlier so we had a bit of a natter and I told her Fred rocked, Calexico sucked. I think she appreciated that!

Edit in 2023: Adding YouTube videos!

Paginated Posts in b2++

Minor b2++ update here but it’s a good one for those of you with lots of content. b2 always had a “Previous Page/Next Page” function but I never enabled it in b2++. This morning I fixed that so to activate it do the following:

  • Go into the Options page and change “Show XX days/posts” to “Show XX posts paged” where XX is some number.
  • Add the following code to your blog template: {$posts_nav_link}. I’ve put mine instead a blockquote tag but you can do what you like to style the links.

Next up is a Smarty function that takes as parameters a b2 function name and parameters to make it easy to call original b2 functions.

Photography stuff

Various articles and magazine updates via Photography Blog:

  • Secrets of Success – ” What does it take to succeed as a photographer?” or succeed in any field for that matter as the list is fairly generic!
  • How To Reproduce A Tone – Interesting use colour tools.
  • Vivid Light #35 is available with some good articles. .. and it can be just damn bad luck that images get lost although I do admit I rarely delete photos!

Later… Mark posted 24 photos from the past year. He took 10,000 photos with his Canon EOS 10D and here’s his favourites. (ok, that 10,000 photos beats me by a few thousand! You must have a very patient girlfriend!)

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