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Category: Ramblings
Brain dumps
Gutenberg
So I took a punt and installed Gutenberg here and set about reformatting the pages and recoding my layout plugin to use blocks. It all seems to work, but it’s a little sparsely documented and still has a few rough …
The Gray Room’s 1st Birthday
Gray Room Flyer
A year ago my friend John Gray opened his studio, The Gray Room, in Bridgeton. On the 29th of July the studio is having an open day. Come along for nibbles, good bants and a studio demo. The images I’ve …
Fancybox 3
For a while now just over half of the visitors to mcaleavy.org have been coming from mobile devices and the image lightbox I was using, Fancybox, wasn’t really mobile friendly. It pops up a little window, and you really don’t …
WordPress Albatross
Today’s discovery. If you’ve had WordPress installed and running your website for more years that you care to think about, and have been through a lot of different plugins and themes over the years, your database is probably full of …
The Gray Room
Teal - <a href="http://mcaleavy.org/models/meg/">Meg</a>
Last week my friend John Gray kindly invited us along for a test shoot at his new studio, The Gray Room, in Bridgeton. So with Meg modelling and Sarah also shooting, we went along for a look. The studio has …
Mac Drive Failure
Dave Boot
On Thursday the hard drive on my Macbook Pro failed. Not a problem. I run Time Machine regularly so I have a full incremental backup that’ll restore my machine back to working condition. Just need to buy a new drive, …
Juno’s degree show
Essence - <a href="/models/juno/">Juno</a> in <a href="/projects/projection/">Projection</a>
My friend, artist and occasional model Juno‘s degree show starts next week. She’ll be exhibiting the paintings that we used in the projection images of her in her modelling gallery here. The show is open on weekdays from the 4th to …
Web Hits
Web Hits 03/15
Recently this website hit half a million page views. Not a lot by most standards, but it set me to thinking about where those views are coming from. Surprisingly, the answer is basically everywhere. 190 countries. All of the blue …
GNU Terry Pratchett
Clacks
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” RIP Terry Pratchett. +++MELON MELON MELON+++ +++Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++ See X-Clacks-Overhead for the backstory.