Warm Jam

Apologies to the one or two of you using RSS to follow & may have had about 5 random posts pop up – I’ve been playing!

Short version: Though there’s nothing there yet, the “moblog” tab at the top of the page (and the moblog category link in the sidebar) will bring up photos I’ll be uploading from my phone. If I see an OAP walk into a lampost, a chav hit by a car, or a vaguely phallic cloud formation… it now has a place.

Long version: After much dicking around, I’ve finally got mobile blogging via the Postie plug-in. I don’t really plan to sit on trains tapping away, furiously composing posts in T9, but thought a photo stream would be cute! Moblog.net wanted to charge £5/mo or £25/yr to use my own URL and, frankly, that can go to hell.
WordPress’s own “post by email” script refused to work – possibly because I couldn’t specify SSL – and even Postie misbehaved initially, but with a lot of Googling and a few “D’oh!” moments passed, it’s up and running! Still waiting for an excuse to see if the cron job throws up any issues, but if so that can be circumvented.

Add in a category filter and a conditional tag, so as not to break up the rest of the blog, and it now has its very own tab! I’m quite pleased.

(edit: Working, and populated!)

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An afternoon spent in hospital a few days back yielded these – no expense spared getting them to you, from the £18 for the disc to the fellow I had to hit hard enough to bruise the bone (we all thought it was a fracture…)

The disc, by the way – I’m not going to complain about the £18, but why oh why is there a proprietary viewer on there? Why can’t there just be two jpg image files? Especially when the program won’t run under Vista. This is a pretty geeky home, and we have four different operating systems covered between us, but that would NOT have been funny under any other circumstance.

Stage two: get them printed big enough to get up on the wall! I’m thinking A3, how about you?

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Time to get the ball rolling – the theme’s ready, the colours are set, time to go!

Welcome to the first post at Warm Jam. I’m Chris, or more often Toast online, and I make things. I make body jewellery, walking canes and sex toys for fun & profit, and in my own time I thoroughly enjoy cooking, carpentry, drawing & painting, and am just getting back into digging around in amateurish HTML, all of which will doubtless get mentioned plenty here over the life of the blog.

Say you’ll be back?

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