Category Archives: geekiness

under construction

26 Tuesday Jan 2010

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I’ve been having the best time working on my new store project with my old h2g2 pal, Taliesin. He came to my rescue the other day and has not only moved my old website for me, but is helping me design the new version. What a guy!

I’m hoping to have the store fully functional by March 1st … I think that should give Tal & me enough time to finish the design and techy stuff, as well as get the stock and shipping side of things organised. There’s a lot to do, and I will probably just start off with a few choice items, but along with English classes and possible tapas tours & wine tasting evenings, I might actually end up with something resembling an income.

Meanwhile, this is all so exciting and also very interesting. Tal is doing all the “heavy lifting” for this move and new set up, but I’ve been helping out here and there and also learning A LOT, which is always fun.

The generosity of my friends continues to overwhelm me.

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moving day

21 Thursday Jan 2010

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Aaaaaack!

I realised yesterday morning that the end of the month was coming up fast and that I HAD to find a way of moving my natural clothing site over to my self-hosted azahar sevilla site. I have been trying to do this for the past couple of years … well, I have asked the guy who designed the online store on several occasions to help me move it. He finally told me I owed him money (say what?) and that he wouldn’t give me “permission” to move the site until I paid up. Jerk. I mean seriously, I’m embarrassed to admit how much Nog & I had paid for this thing five years ago and then the guy kept my domain name. I don’t actually want the name back, but now I can’t access the other host site because it’s in his name, not mine. Grrr…

If I were doing this again now (and in fact I will be doing soon, with the Seville Store) I’d just make my own. But back then I didn’t know anything about all this website building stuff. And so… spent all day yesterday trying to make back-ups and installing a content management system (Joomla) and then trying to figure out how to upload the back-up until my shoulders felt like they were in a vice grip and I was speaking in half sentences (Nog says that when I get intensely involved in something I start sentences and then drift off, never finishing them …).

I really hope that after some industrial strength coffee this morning that I’ll be able to see things more clearly.  After having spent so much on this I would hate to lose it, especially as I hope to be able to use the site again some time in the future.

And although it was very frustrating, I’m actually quite pleased about how much I learned yesterday. But I’m still not there yet. Wish me luck! And if anyone out there knows how I can upload my backed up files to the new CMS on FTP, I’m all ears.

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forum frustration

23 Wednesday Dec 2009

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Aaaack! I have been pulling out my hair trying to get some sort of forum up and running on Sevilla Tapas. First I thought I’d try P2 for WordPress, which seemed easy enough. And was easy enough to install. But it also seems awkward for people to register and when Nog registered the other day he ended up being able to access the dashboard (!). I’ve also tried bbpress, which is supposed to be “simple, fast and elegant”, but I cannot get it to install properly. I keep getting stuck on numbers 4 & 5 on their instruction page that says “visit the intended URL of the bbPress site,  you will be greeted with the bbPress installer” – but sadly this never happens. Then someone told me to install a plugin that does the WP integration for bbpress … no joy there either. Then I had Simple Scripts (on my BlueHost) automatically install bbpress, and that seemed to be working okay, but I couldn’t get into the CSS to change things. And okay,  I know I’m not the geekiest of people, but I like to think I know my way around CSS a bit and am usually able to install these things quite easily.

There is also Buddy Press, but I’m not sure that’s really what I’m looking for.

Anyhow, my Twitter friend Andy says he will help me with this a bit later on today … wish me luck. I’ve been getting some interesting feedback and queries by email from visitors to Sevilla Tapas and I think that there would be more interaction if there were a forum option available. I’m actually quite looking forward to that.

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are you an iphone or blackberry?

16 Friday Oct 2009

Posted by in gadgets, geekiness, quizzes

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Was there ever any doubt…?

You Are an iPhone


You are one of those early adopter, super geek chic types.

You like a gadget that has a ton of features to fuel your tech obsessions.

You tend to know the inner workings of every toy, phone, and computer you own. You’re always exploring and learning.

You want the most leading edge phone you can find, at almost any cost. You’re usually the first one in line for the latest iPhone!

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evernote or remember the milk?

07 Wednesday Oct 2009

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Another cry for geeky help today.

Recently these two online “to do list” and task management web apps have come to my attention. And well, you know how much I love lists, and also how I need extra help these days getting myself organised, so I had a look at both of them. At first glance it’s hard to see if one is better for me than the other, so I thought I’d ask if anyone here is using either of them and if you have a preference.

One person I know using Remember The Milk said it was tricky getting to know the layout and how to use it, but after that she thought it was very helpful. My main concern is that it uses Google Gears, which I had to uninstall from my computers awhile back because it was causing problems (though now I don’t remember exactly what … interfering with some other programmes).

Both also have iPhone apps, which would be useful for me. But before I spend a few hours “getting organised” I would like to have a better idea about which app would be best for me. So … feedback? Pros & cons? Help?

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