Category: IT

I guess you could say I’m a nerd.

Geo plugin for WordPress

Another geo-related post.

I’ve installed the Geo plugin for WordPress which attaches geographic coordinate information to posts and the blog as a whole.

This blog is currently located at latitude: and longitude: (these values are generated dynamically from the settings of this blog which the plugin manages) and here’s a map.

UPDATE

And because I know shit about php I can’t work out how to display the values that I mention in the post.

UPDATE

Seems the functions only work outside of the posts. So I’ve added the ‘Location’ strip to the header which accomplishes the same effect.

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dealing with the sidebar

As I’ve mentioned before, the sidebar is way too cluttered so I’ve done something about it.

I’ve moved some of the more straightforward lists up to just below the header to tidy them up. I’m going to do something with a photographic image, which will be quite a departure from my normal flat colour schemes. Ooh, radical!

These new strips will also keep the body of the page much cleaner for adapting it to a photoblog layout. I want to convert the calendar into a strip of numbers, rather than a table, but as far as I can tell the PHP for creating this is a mite complicated. I’m sure I’ve seen it done this way somewhere else, it’s just a matter of finding that site again and seeing how it was done.

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audioscrobbler

I have an paradoxical urge to let people know all these aspects of my life, even though I’m actually really shy and retiring. Doing it via my computer and the internet is obviously a displacing activity, everything takes place at a remove from myself. I send it out and from then on it’s out of my hands. Easy.

I’ve added Audioscrobbler to the list of information sources about me. Make up an image of me through my musical preferences.

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wireless

Well, I finally bit the bullet and paid out for a wireless router, the D-Link DI-624+.

I’ve had previous experience with these routers and I’ve found them to be easy to set up and use and this one has been no exception. Because this is the ‘+’, it uses the slower AirPlus G+ (54 Mbps) system as opposed to the Air Plus XtremeG (108 Mbps) which I bought last time. Basically my powerbook’s Airport card can’t take advantage of the XtremeG boost which I think is some kind of proprietary technology developed by D-Link. And it’s about half the price which is good.

I’ve not tested it throughout the flat yet, so here goes walkabout…

Cool, only lost one bar on the indicator now I’m in the bedroom. Not that I can get very far away from the router in my flat.

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