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Wading through deeper treacle

Posted by on May 31st 2022 in Pics, Site update

Turns out that the figure in the pic above was woefully inaccurate - at last check I'd fixed over 500 more links, but the true total of broken image links is now 2197.

While I'm fixing stuff I'm also doing some pruning and pollarding, so some of the less-interesting posts have been consigned to the bin.

You never know, I might even get everything up & running before another plug-in "upgrade" screws it up again.

Top priority is the fixing of all posts in the Lakes Escapes category (be advised that clicking that link will bring up many pics, so it will take a while to load). I may well be stuck here for the foreseeable, but I'll always want to be back in Wainwright territory, wading through snow rather than treacle:

 

 

Wading through treacle

Posted by on April 8th 2022 in Pics, Site update

There have been complaints about the broken images on this blog. The breakages were caused when a major WordPress update months ago stopped one of the image-processing plug-ins working properly.

Chill out, people. I'm doing my best, but there's no quick solution to this problem - each fix has to be a manual edit.

When I started fixing, the Broken Link Checker had found over 2400, so I'm over halfway there.

Rearranging the furniture

Posted by on February 13th 2017 in Site update
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I'm doing a bit of reorganising here. Most of the posts about AML have been edited to show/hide my unimportant ranting, drivel and charts.

The latest blood-test result charts can be found via the sidebar's site nav under "01 Site Nav - Pick a Page".

I may even go so far as to tart the place up a bit by ditching the moody black & grey look and adding a few touches of colour.

But that might be a step too far.

Post updated 28/03/2017

Not so Smug now, eh?

Posted by on June 19th 2014 in Astrostuff, Photo hosting, Pics, Site update

It's taken me 127 days to de-SmugMug this blog, but it's been worth it.

Maybe now I can get back to some serious blogging.

Or maybe some not-so-serious blogging.

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Hotwiring the fragment-links and superceding the binary— binary— binary— binary— binary— binary— …

Posted by on May 4th 2014 in Photo hosting, Pics, Site update

If only I could do that, the task of editing all of the blog's image, image-link and mouseover URLs (to reflect the changes associated with migrating all of my pics out of the failing SmugMug and into WordPress) would probably be a doddle. As it is, it's a tedious manual-edit jobbie that's taking me ages.

Two months in and I'm still not a quarter of the way there. It didn't help that a fortnight ago WordPress updated to version 3.9 and the thing fell apart because of the limitations of the bundled "upgraded" TinyMCE visual editor which had been gelded of various features that I need to do the editing. The techies at BlueHost did a restore from a their monthly backup to get me back onto WP3.8.3 with the previous TinyMCE... that put me back in control, but it undid a month of editing and scrubbed a month of uploads.

So, expect this place to be a mess while the transfer is in progress. I reckon I have about 6,000 URL edits still to do, so it's going to take a long time.

FWIW, I did try reversing the polarity of the neutron flow but that had no beneficial effects. The sonic screwdriver...

is helping a bit.

Maybe I need a Doctor.

Reviews – pulling them all together

Posted by on December 7th 2011 in My reviews, Site update

Yeah, I know that I'm not the best outdoor-gear reviewer out there, but looking at the site stats it seems that my reviews get a fair number of visitors. To make things a tad easier to find by those who visit in seek of my humble opinions, I've knocked up a reference page. I'll tart it up and add some pics later as time allows.
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