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Just discovered Softaculous’ WordPress Management over the weekend… Why did I not know this existed?! I’ve been fiddling about with a separate test domain to check out changes before I put them live, when all I needed to do was use WM to create a staging copy of the live site, try out changes and […]

jAlbum produces pretty output, but it’s so clunky and a slog to configure galleries and update albums. So, I’ve moved all the galleries over to Google Photos now. And uninstalled jAlbum so that I’m not tempted to revisit it… It wasn’t too difficult to do, load time is faster, and all photos have geolocation displayable

Was thinking seriously about moving to a free hosting service (InfinityFree) and abandoning this paid-for setup. It seemed very straightforward until I discovered a big gotcha: plenty of disk space for my needs, but they have an inode limit of 30,000 – and I used half of that for just a few pages and photos!

Asked ChatGPT to “write the first two paragraphs of “The Colour Of Magic” in the style of Franz Kafka”. And this is what it came up with: As I awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, I found myself transformed into a tourist on the strange and fantastical world of Discworld. This world was a flat

It’s quite incredible how much AI has advanced since I first encountered it in the early 70s. Photoshop has introduced Filters that employ it, and there are fascinating sites such as DALL-E, ChatGPT, Descript, and CodeFormer that I’m enjoying messing around with.

If you’re on Mastodon, you can find me at @Ivor@mastodon.online

There was this bang and crashing sound. Sat pondering for a while, trying to figure out whether it was inside or outside, and what it might be, before venturing downstairs to find it was the 5′ Christmas tree had fallen over, crashed into the TV, and the screen pierced by the corner of the glass

My subscription to Outdoor Active ended last month, so I’m now just on the free version. The OS Maps app is perfectly usable and has web features that I like, but it does not allow saving to web of tracks, just routes! So, having been a lazy sod since July, I thought it might be

Quite by accident, I discovered why I must have lost my fixed IP address – Origin are now part of Talktalk! And have been since January, I believe. A bit of a shock, really – I’ve always considered TT to be avoided at all costs! I’m damn sure this was never communicated to me –

Had been considering moving away from Origin back to AAISP (in spite of the cost) as there seemed to have been funny goings-on at Origin. They ditched my fixed IP address and were rather evasive when I asked why, and told them why I wanted fixed IP (the shared IP I was on got blacklisted