Header Images

I’m still playing around with this new admin interface for WordPress, and so far I like it.  I’ve found a few things missing from the old site, though.  Any non-Flickr image from one of my old galleries seems to be gone.  I think I could retrieve them, if need be, but this includes all images from our 2004 cross-country trip.  Also, any of my ASP pages are now gone, including my South Carolina Place Names database.  I think I can rebuild that with Google tables.

One of my favorite things about this particular theme are the customizable header images.  I took several of my favorite photos and scaled/cropped them to the correct size.  Yes, I did take all of these photos.  Here’s a quick rundown…

Middle Saluda River at Jones Gap

Impromtu keyboard on a brick wall in downtown Greenville

Heron in Skagit County, Washington State

Sunset over Lummi Peak, Samish Bay, Washington State

Water Lilies on Lake Marion

Alan Russell on Lake Jocassee

One lone red tulip, Skagit County Tulip Festival, Washington State

Yosemite Valley, California

Stonehenge

Reedy Falls, downtown Greenville

Cedar Falls Dam on the Reedy River, Greenville County

Winter Solstice Sunrise, Indian River, Fort Pierce, Florida

Furman Lake and Bell Tower

Jimmy Steinmetz, John Ring, and Matt Richardson paddling through lilies on Lake Marion

Barn windows, Skagit County, Washington State

Skagit River near Concrete, Washington State

Reedy Falls Park, downtown Greenville

Kissimmee Prairie, Okeechobee County, Florida

Piedmont Sunrise from Bald Rock near Caesar’s Head, Greenville County

Matt Richardson, John Ring, and Joe Nahman on Lazaretto Creek near Savannah, Georgia

It was fun collecting all of these and seeing which ones would fit within the 960X200 limitation.  The images change each time you visit a different part of the site or reload the page.  I’ll keep adding to these as I find more that will work.

Posted by Tom on January 26th, 2012 | No Comments Posted in Photography

Blog Rebirth

The deed is done.  Not since I switched from a home-built ASP-coded blog to WordPress has RandomConnections undergone as many radical changes.  None-the-less, here you are…the New and Improved™ RandomConnections!

I finally got completely fed up with my old hosting company, AccuWeb Hosting.  The service was locked down so tight that I couldn’t use even common features on WordPress.  I had to do work-arounds to get things posted, and that was a pain.  Yet, even though they had everything locked down so tightly as to what and where you could post things, they somehow couldn’t keep viruses off of their servers.

I knew I was on an older version of WordPress that had some vulnerabilities and limitations.  However, when I asked my hosting company about migrating to a newer version of PHP so that I could upgrade, they told me I would have to change my service plan and would most likely lose most of my content.  I’ve got nearly 10 years of blogging here, and didn’t want to lose any of it, so that wasn’t an option. Continue reading ‘Blog Rebirth’

Posted by Tom on January 26th, 2012 | 1 Comment Posted in Miscellaneous

Blog Existentialism

Dear Readers:

I’m having MAJOR problems with the blog and with the hosting company, Accuweb Hosting. The latest is an apparent virus attack on the blog. I have the Akismet plugin which is supposed to block spam comments. However, something keeps disabling that plugin. Therefore, until further notice all commenting on posts has been disabled. I’m hoping to get that fixed soon because I enjoy the feedback from these posts. Continue reading ‘Blog Existentialism’

Posted by Tom on January 23rd, 2012 | Comments Off Posted in Miscellaneous

Audio Sharing with Chirbit

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Some time back I posted a wish list for audio file sharing. I was looking for something analogous to YouTube, but for audio only. I found two services, Audioboo and SoundCloud, that seem to work well, and I’ve been using those. However, a third one has come onto the scene. Chirbit is about audio hosting system, and it seems to meet most of my wish list items.

Chirbit as many of the same features as Audioboo and Soundcloud. It appears to be set up more on the Audioboo model, which allows user an unlimited number of files, but restricts the length of of those files. Accounts are free, but there is an upgrade to a paid version which allows longer files. Here’s an example using my traditional test file, my reading of Edgar Allen Poe’s Annabel Lee…


Check this out on Chirbit

As with the other services, you can upload various audio files, or you can record directly into the service from your computer’s microphone. Chirbit offers two other options. First, you can strip the audio from YouTube videos to upload to the service. You input the URL for the video, and it uploads that to Chirbit.

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Posted by Tom on January 20th, 2012 | No Comments Posted in Internet, Music

Little River Blueway

While we were on our photo trek to McCormick Houston and I were scouting paddling locations. We both liked the Clark Hill area, and we were intrigued by the Little River branch, especially where it starts at Calhoun Mill. One of the comments on that post was from Kirk Smith, who pointed me in the direction of the Little River Blueway website.

Little River Blueway has put together a great collection of information about the area. There are descriptions and maps of paddling trails, as well as other information about the area.

I’ve taken the paddling descriptions of Little River and Long Cane Creeks and have added them to my overall Google Earth collection, Paddling South Carolina’s Rivers. I’ll definitely want to try one of these, especially if the water levels come back up.

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Posted by Tom on January 19th, 2012 | No Comments Posted in Local, Paddling
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