Despite all the showers and bad weather, Jacinta and I went to Doneraile Park on Sunday afternoon. It’s a beautiful park, and was owned and developed by a family with a famous daughter.
On Camera Policies in Privately Owned Public Spaces
Here’s an editorial piece on photography in public areas. It’s lengthy but it and the comments explore the subject well.
There’s a lengthy thread on the Street Photographers list after a number of members were stopped by police. Trouble, trouble, trouble.
All because some paranoid daytime-TV-watching shut-in saw someone outside with a camera. And because the local TV news tells him to report any suspicious activity said fear consumer dutifully calls the police. After all why would someone want to take pictures of anything other than their family and those Kodak spots at Disney?
This is even worse that some third-world banana republic. At least there you can usually bribe your way out.
Smarty Plugins Working in WP!
Yay! I got the “relatedstories” plugin working! The hardest bit was converting to use $wpdb instead of the PHP MySQL interface. I love that I could call get_permalink in post.html to figure out the story link:
{relatedstories}
{if $relatedstories}
<b>Related Stories</b> ({$relatedstoriesWords})
<ul>
{foreach from=$relatedstories key=key item=story}
<li> <a href="{get_permalink id=$story->ID}" >{$story->post_title}</a></li>
{/foreach}
</ul>
{/if}
Vicipéid – Wikipedia as Gaeilge!
Vicipéid looks like a good attempt to translate Wikipedia into Irish.
Here are the pages on John Kerry and George Bush as an example of topical pages on it. (Thanks Kae for the link!)
Planet of the Apes – Twilight Zone Style!
What happens when you compress the original “Planet of the Apes” down into a 30 minute show? You get this fan-edit episode of the Twilight Zone!
Searching with PHP and MySQL
Great article on searching MySQL using PHP! I didn’t know about RLIKE at all! How’d I miss that? (via The Real Adam)
Black and White Photography – New York and London
Great photos at Black and White Photography – New York and London. Wow.
MSNBC — The Year in Pictures 2002
Lots of photos in this presentation. Got bored waiting for it to load, will take a look tonight!
DOs & DON'Ts of Photography
Some of the things recommended by the author on this list are plain weird but at least they’ll give you some ideas too!
WordPress, Smarty and Multi-Blogs
My Smarty powered and mult-blog capable version of WordPress is now running on this site. It’s not perfect at all, but I have a simple script that exports the current blogs here to the WP table format. This blog content lives there already!
I really need to get Smarty caching going soon however!
Link coming in a few days, but TBH, it’s simple to find if you think about it 🙂
Later … Caching’s working, based on URL and user_ID, WordPress developers, is that enough to key the cache by? Also figured out that I need to sanitize_title() all my post titles into post_name before permalinks will work! Doh!