wa-hay! found a bit of javascript that’ll add a random sentence to the top banner of the index. now all i need is some random content, i’m open to suggestions.
next thing to do is learn a bit of java so that i could’ve written it myself, or at least understand what it does
Like Chris Nicolson i’ve been wanting something that’ll turn a key word into a link when I publish the post, and after a quick question on MTForums I get a reply witha bit of code to add to my templates that’ll turn plain old text into oh so much more…
let’s see by typing Duncan
Last thursday I went to Alien Rock and got hooked on climbing, so I did a search for a climbing wall in Glasgow, my home for the next few years and found this, The Glasgow Climbing Centre which apparently is at Ibrox Church, I’d always thought that this was where people went to worship in Govan but apparently not. Anyway the purpose of this post…
On the Climbing Centre’s site there were two images that instantly caught my eye because 3D images like these are cool :
And when I was writing this post I got a bit carried away with myself adding in links all over the place and I found the 3D tour of Ibrox, now, I realise not everybody is a blue nose but I still think you should have a look at this because it is cool. click here. You need active x to view it.
This is quite scary, I was just catching up on a few bits of news, both online and reading The Scotsman, in particular I was reading one of the articles on the front page and was about to add a link to the online version here. However as I was looking for it in one browser window, I saw that Duncan had beaten me to it in another window with this post.
There weren’t any posts over the weekend and you must have thought I was realy busy getting things ready before I go to uni on Friday (well, no, you probably weren’t thinking anything, except maybe ‘oh Stuart’s forgoten about his blog again’) and you would be wrong because, today is the start of something new and much bigger than before, over the weekend I have been installing movable type on my server and this is the result, a shiny, new, looking Stuart’s Weblog with built in commenting and individual entry archiving and everything else you could possibly want. (well, not quite everthing you might want but everything I want so there).
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hehe, this is the city i’m moving to on friday! via Duncan’s Jotter:
I went rock climbing tonight at Alien Rock which was brilliant, really tiring though and after a while my body just said ‘no’ but before then I did a 6A+, which is apparently quite hard, and bumped into Miss Brookes, an old teacher of mine.
All in all a good night out and something I’d like to take up if I could afford to do it regularly, I’ll have to check if there are any walls near uni
Still on the subject of me (and it’s a subject think warrants a lot of attention) and it still makes me happy that a search for ’stuart meldrum’ still comes up with results from ages ago when I still swam, especially this one East District Open Championships 2000. It’s the 15yrs/OVER one in particular, it was really pleasing to beat Kenneth at his distance and to come as close to Taylor Smith was great as well. The actuall result wasn’t as good as it looks there, Taylor’s time was something more like 1:09.64 but still that was as close as I ever got to him when he was going anywhere near his top speed. What was even better was that I had beaten him in the heats and had qualified fastest.
I did a google search for me about two weeks ago and wasn’t anywhere to be found but another quick check tonight proved much more satisfying, so, what does that make my GLUM rating…
Google Search: stuart’s weblog
Google Search: stuart meldrum
Incidentally the fifth result for stuart’s weblog is an archived file about somebody going to see Cayto, I don’t know anything about Cayto except that one of them is one of Duncan Smeed’s students.
It was the first webcast of DGS webradio today but a lack of promotion meant that I missed it.
I pretty much set the whole thing up towards the end of my last year at DGS with help from staff and pupils from 4th, 5th and 6th year but couldn’t get it done in time for the end of my time there. It was a real shame that I missed it as it could have been a really big event for the school.
In setting it up I had to find out how the whole streaming thing worked, find some free software to do it with then show the headteacher, Don Ledingham, the potential of the idea to secure some funding using the help (and a lot of the patience) of the technician and one of the teachers, Mr King, to get the speakers in the assembly hall wired up to a laptop, so that everyone in the school would hear it.
That went pretty well and I got ?800 to spend on new equipment and a room to work from (after I had spent the year nagging for money for the webteam for some legit software). As the school had never done anything like this before everying had to be bought in and I don’t know if you’ve ever bought a recording studio before but if you have you’ll know it costs a little bit more than ?800 (enter Mr King and his catalogue of cheap electrical components)
Eventually everything arrived and it was all set to be put together and tested, unfortunately it was the middle of the exams by that time and that was about the last I had to do with it. While I was waiting for the equipment to arrive I spent time making the site that I’ve linked to above when I should have been revising, but hey! I had a copy of Flash and a copy of Fireworks to get used to!
