Gallery programme

I have a web host who offer one click installs, and nice that it is I am beginning to wonder when the last time they carried out an update of the programmes that they provide.

Why you may ask?

Well I wanted a quick and diry install to have somewhere to easily show off the pictures I took at daughters engagement party.

As I did not want to go to the trouble of installing a database and all the work that that can entail I saw in the one click section that they had a gallery programme that required no database. Which is just what I was looking for.

It installed no problem, I found that the 600 photos had to be reduced in size as they were far to large for the programme and the upload to the Internet as each image is some 24mb in size, so it would take some time to upload, and more importantly it would also take a while to download, and as I don't know what kind of connection or device people are using to get at the photos it made sense to down size them.

So I have gallery 1.6 working on my machine it appears to date back to the 2000's?

I am not sure what date it goes back to, the main thing is it works, I just hope it has not got to many security holes and stuff in it, and that's the point of this blog post. 

Is okay to offer one click installs but shouldn't they be up-to date so as to reduce the chances of the bad people using an old exploit ?

The good news is that the gallery will only be on the net for a short time, just long enough for all to see the pictures before I delete it.

Engagement party

So my daughter had her engagement party it was fun and it was great to meet loads of new people from his side of the family.

Nigella 3

So still the newspapers here in the UK seem to have lots of time in following Nigella Lawson and what has happened to her and what she is doing now.

I can not understand all this interest in her, does she deserve all the attention? 

I am sure she does not want it. 

In fact I suppose her life must be s@@@ at this time what with her private life splattered all over the media, it's not a good place to be.

How is she and her children coping with all of this?

I know that if it were me I would have trouble coping with it all, maybe it's time for her to have a break from the media and time to think about it all and what if any changes she needs to make to her life.

Grass

Just happened to have an odd thought about grass and that is that we really do take it for granted, the thing that struck me was how come we still have it?

Why I ask this question is the fact that we do are upmost to cut it short to within an inch or less of its life yet still some how it's here and produces seed somehow.

How often have you seen your lawn grass flower?

Exactly!

I can't remember the last time I saw lawn grass flowering, maybe it only. Flowers at night for several hours and then returns to normal in the morning, I know I know it doesn't but I do know that there is a cactus that does just that for one night of the year. It relies on night pollinators to do the job and to get the job done it also uses scent otherwise nothing would find it.

Any way grass I love all the greens that it can be in and the fact that it is better than seeing dirt.

Nigella 2

So Nigellagate carries on, I notice that her twitter feed is silent at this time, which I suppose is not a surprise I just wonder where do you go to get out of the limelight when your face is well known and is also all over the tv and the Internet .

And that when you do break cover every man and his dog with a camera will be trying their upmost to photograph you

I don't know the answer to these questions, I just hope that who ever is helping her has worked it all out.

Sunshine and BBQ

I have found a new law of this part of the universe and that is if you are looking forward to a BBQ then the weather will be bad..........

Rich

If I was rich would I lead my life any different?

The answer has to be yes

Trouble is that I keep changing my mind on just how many different things I would want to do if I was rich.

As I am never going to be its a great game to play in your head.

Dirk Maggs Website

So for personal reasons I have not had the time to update the Dirk Maggs website now for sometime, part of the reason is that after spending ten hours a day on a computer the last thing that I appears I want to do is work on the computer at home.

This is sad as I like updating my websites 

Perhaps my mojo will come back and I can do something about my websites?

Converting flvs

So is there a programme that will let me convert FLV files to something that will play on my iPad?

I have tried format factory and it does not like the FLV files one bit.

Drink of the day

The drink of the day to day is....Pepsi Max with ice and lemon and nice it is too.

It would be nice if it was a bit warmer but I suppose you can't have everything.

Personal Cloud part 2

The personal cloud is working well I have used 18percent of the 3TB so far. I just wish that I had gotten  a gigabit router as it would make streaming content much better.

Oh well these are I suppose things that you learn.

Nigella

So the pictures of Nigella Lawson being grabbed by the throat by her husband are all over the Internet and also on the telly. I suppose that in the heat of an argument things can get out of hand, but the thing that has upset me most is seeing this woman looking so sad and I think very scared, this is made so much worse by the fact that on the food Chanel you can see her looking very happy and smiling and having everything to live for.

I wonder how she is coping with all the attention, for something that only happened by chance and for it to get caught on camera, I suspect that the camera man was there on spec just waiting to see if any famous people would turn up to eat at the cafe, I bet he could not  believe  his luck!

So is Nigella okay?

How does she now cope with all of this? 

and what happens to her when she is seen in public again?

I would hope that her and her husband sort out their relationship, but does she give an interview?

 if it was me the answer is no as its a private matter.

I suppose that in time we will find out what is going to happen to both of them.

I am begining to think that the media attention is going to be far worse than the argument!

The only thing is that the image of her looking scared and upset has gotten into my head and I am having trouble clearing it from my head.

No BBQ

So with the new BBQ built and so far used just twice will we get any weather that will let us us it again?

It will be interesting to see when the weather will let us.

Cloud server

Just a note to me that I have used 17 percent of the 3TB drive.

Longest day

So in a few days it will be mid summer, some how this year it just does not seem right that mid summer is already here and we have not had the weather to enjoy it.

Oh well that's the way the world works sometimes.

My cloud server

So I have my own cloud server, so far it's not been as I expected it to be, mainly as I appear to have mixed up a media server with a could server.

Oh well back to the drawing board

Cold

Am I supposed to be cold in mid June?

Building

So I had the delight of building the new BBQ it took rather a long time as one of the screws for part of it proved very difficult to screw into the metal work due to the fact there was very little room for it.

But in the end we have got a working BBQ and that's all that counts.

Personal cloud

As I said in an earlier post on this blog I have brought myself a 3TB cloud drive and so far all has been well and it works.

Just a couple of things that I don't like are that the media player that it comes with does not seem to know many video types.

The second thing is that the IOS apps are a little bit flakey and that sometimes it fails to see the shares on the cloud drive, it see's the drive but not the shares on it.

So far I have only put 300GB on it, sadly most of the video files fail to play due to the media servers shortcomings.

Sunshine

Finally more than two days with blue sky and sunshine, it could even be a record this year with the weather we have been having here in the UK.

June

June already but it does not feel like it.