Over The Lake

Over The Lake, originally uploaded by zensart.

Seeing this I think I like where I live better

Flying along the coast

Flying along the coast, originally uploaded by Cal Bear 94.

Yet another image that I wish I had taken, or even been there to take it.

Winter Fog Breaking 2 B+W

Winter Fog Breaking 2 B+W, originally uploaded by bruiach1.

Just a great photo whish I had taken it

I long to see...

I long to see..., originally uploaded by brilliant girl.

I think I like this image as the colours run from orange to a grey

My 2nd page of favs

My 2nd page of favs, originally uploaded by davew1.

well what else is there to say about this lovey lot other than its great

Test 1

Test 1, originally uploaded by davew1.

really like the way these four images work well together, I don't know why they work but they do

Some of my current fav's

Some of my current fav's, originally uploaded by davew1.

just found the tool again to allow me to show some of my fav's

17/08/2007

17/08/2007, originally uploaded by davew1.

This is the first one of these that I have seen this year not sure what it is called but I think this is the earlist I have seen one

18/08/2007

18/08/2007, originally uploaded by davew1.

Ant not looking very happy at having his picture taken

Shooting Star

Shooting Star, originally uploaded by @nt!x.

Great image wish I had the sky and backdrop like this and also the time to take such a picture.

battersea power station

battersea power station, originally uploaded by Jonny Tiger..

Does not matter how many times I have seen this building it can still get your attetion.

Damba

Damba, originally uploaded by Timur Nasyrov.

What I like this picture, if I had the money to spare I would offer to buy this from the artist.

Orange Juice & Keyboards

Things here took a turn for the bad yesterday dinnertime when Donna (wife) had an accident with a glass of orange juice and found out that the following are true facts keyboards, weather stations wireless routers and cable modems do not like orange juice, they may like other kinds of juice but definitely not orange.

It goes without say that she was just a bit upset in fact very up set. The good news that hairdryers are great I mean there are really great and following the use of such a great invention we soon found ourselves in the good position of having only lost the wireless keyboard.

A trip to PC-world resulted in a nice new wireless keyboard, mouse and a set of headphones all for 39 pounds instead of 89 pounds as PC World were or are having a sale. The new keyboard is better than the old old so is the mouse(But don't tell Donna that)

It goes without saying that all of this took for ever and by the time things had been sorted out it was 10 pm and so now work was done on wiki's or anything else, and that will also be the case for the next week or so as it's time to jump in the car dive for 12 hours to look at what Scottish rain looks like, and weather or not it is any different to English rain, yep you got it its Holiday time.

As I have never been to Scotland I just don't know what to expect, apart from the rain that is, as that's what the weather man, women are saying we shall be getting. We are going to within 20 miles of John O'Grotes so it's a long way form home about 12 hours travel time.

Eye

, originally uploaded by criza.

Just love they way in this picture the eye draws you into the picture.

James Follett Wiki (JFW) part 6

Yes part six just how much longer can I talk about this project, I suppose it depends on just how much I do on it, or I loose interest and finally if I just plain run out of time.

So to up date progress the item count got to 142 yep 142 a massive jump in the item number not, the reason being that one of the page that I was doing took nearly 2 hours to do, I still am not that happy with it, but for a first go its not that bad.

The page in question is part of the help system that I am putting on to the wiki so that later on when I forget what I have or can do with the wiki I do have some where to look. One of the problems with doing a help system is that I don't know it all so doing the help system is a way of learning how to use the wiki.

As I have my hols soon all this wiki stuff and this blogging will stop and going by past experience I might move on to other projects and come back to this much later( so if that happens it will be a good test of the help system)

As it is still early days I was surprised to get one question about the wiki, but when I told the guy just how new the wiki was and that progress was going to be slow he wished me good luck. The other problem with his request is that I still have not yet worked out how to give all registered users read rights and only some users read/write rights if you see what I mean.

James Follett Wiki (JFW) Part 5

Things have been slow mainly due to the fact that I have not had a lot of free time, things like building a chest of drawers for daughter have taken time. The other job which also took more than 2 hours was the erection of a digital Ariel, and all the fun that was, do you know it took longer to work out how to switch the TV into DTT mode than anything else?

I mean how could such an operation be so difficult?, the actual finding the stations and stuff was pain free and all fully automatic.

So apart from the above how has the Wiki moved on?

Well the item count is now 139, not much of an increase but then I have also been working on some of the help pages, mainly for my benefit as I now that I will never remember how to do some of the stuff, so it makes sense to have on the site the info on just how to use the wiki.

James Follett Wiki part 4

Well just a small update this time with the item count as I found some free time and added excatly one radio play of Jim Follett's called Jumbo.

Before adding it the count was 114 it now stands at 122.

I think at this rate the item count will still only top out at 1200 to 1500 only time will tell.

Wikis & Books

Wikis & Books

As you may or may not know I have more than one wiki that I am playing with. One is the new James Follett Wiki (JFW) the other far older wiki is called DMP and has over the years been restarted on more than one occasion, mainly due to errors on my part that resulted in me destroying the database and all the backups! (don't ask)

At one stage the DMP had been about 1000 pages in size at this time its around 600, but then I have not worked on it for some time, in fact it is one of those projects that I only seem to work on when I remember that I have got such a project!

The size that I think DMP will get to is at this time 2000 to 2500 pages as the subject of the DMP is Dirk Maggs the radio director that I have spoken about many times here before. In fact I have also spoken about the DMP here many times normally when all was going well and not so well.

Now DMP is a project that for the reasons I have given above will not be updated on its software or the database that drivers it, as I have lost too much too often.

The DMP is again like the JFA a closed wiki very closed in fact I have at this time no intention of allowing anyone access to it even Dirk Maggs, not because there is anything in it that is libeler's but because I used it to create the main Dirk Maggs site, and also because it is the main data-bank for Dirk Maggs. I have used once so far to write a book on all of Dirk's works form 1988 to 2006 it cam e to a 300 page A4 book!

Yes I can tell you I was surprised at how long it was. I reckon that Dirk will be active in radio for at least another 5 to 7 years before he decides to go and do something else, so at the rate of productions that he does a year I think the book could end up at a 1000 pages! how mad is that.

The book is not for sale as it break every copyright law there is, eg there are photo's that I just don't know who owns the copyright to, there are articles that I do not have permission to use. But and this is the big but as this book is based on the website and the DMP from early 2006 the idea was to have a paper record just in case the website or the DMP vanish, which if my passed experience is anything to go by could happen at any moment. So I have a paper copy and the file that made it is stored else where in more than one location.

I also think that the book would not sell very many copies as it is too specialist, just how many folks want to know which actor started in a radio show that has never been heard since it was first broadcast back in 1989?

James Follett Wiki (JFW) Part 3

Things have gone very slow on the wiki, in fact not one more item has been added since the last blog, the reason being that I have found when looking at other larger blogs that they doing things that I just can not see how with the same software as me they can do.

I did after a lot of looking and searching find that they had added extensions to the wiki, how cool is that I had no idea that you could do such a thing.

So I have spent ages looking at lots of extensions, but so far have yet to download and add one to the JFW. But and this is a dig but when I find the extensions that I think will make the JFW easier either to work on or use I will let you know here.

James Follett Wiki (JFW) Part a 3 now with a part a

Yes, there is a part 3, just found out the reason why I can not upgrade the wiki from version 1.84 to 10.01 and it is something that I do not have any control over, and that is, that my ISP One&One.co.uk do not yet offer PHP 5.0 or MySQL 5.00 as standard.

Now to be fair to them, they allow for the money I pay for me to have just 2 100Meg MySQL databases which can be version 4 or 5. the snag is that I have both in use with the wiki on the version 4, to make matters worse I have other programmes using both the version 4 and 5.

I don't know if a database dump works from version 4 to 5 and knowing my luck the answer is no. ( With the luck that I have had in the past I just do not fancy taking the risk or all the work it would take)

So I am stuck with what I have at this time, maybe I will be lucky and my ISP will fall into line with other providers and give my more databases ( some hosting ISP's are allowing you as many as you want, not too sure how they can do that, but it may be that like most things most users do not use what is provided or they only use part of what is given) and more up to date versions of php and MySQL.