Kevin Whitworth / Jacurutu

Low Morale: Creep is an excellent animation set to Radiohead's "Creep" showing how depressing life can be in an office. Well worth a look if you have 5 minutes to spare.

RIght, enough posts about Technorati. It's all working now, so lets get back onto something else...

OK, nothing interesting to add really, so here's another shot from Sunday's walk at Scar House reservoir - spring lambs by the river Nidd. OK, it's not a fantastic photo, but I don't care.

Oh, and if you're of a sensitive nature, you probably ought to ignore my description of the photo on Flickr. (It mentions barbecues.)

I'll try and find something new later in the week. Possibly of my boss playing rounders!

Just checking that this is pinging technorati.

Not entirely sure it's working as planned, but I've updated a few bits and pieces which should help fix stuff.

Fingers crossed...

[Edited]
It worked! Problem solved by linking the Atom feed as per the How do I get indexed? FAQ.

So, Technorati recommended a Nucleus plugin called PingPong to automatically ping them when you post new blog entries. I installed it, but it's not clear whether it's actually working or not.

So I've tweaked it a bit. I've added a new option to enable logging to the action log. If you set it to yes, it will log each ping attempt, including the fault code and message if it fails. I've also added support for the default Weblogs.com service which is included in Nucleus, but you (apparently) have to disable with the PingPong plugin.

All being well, this now works properly. I can't say I've done an elegant job, and I'm sure there's room for improvement*, but it does what I wanted it to do now. If anyone is interested, I'll post the code somewhere - just leave a comment.

* Actually, I wanted to log the blog title, but couldn't work out how to do it. Learning PHP programming and much more about Nucleus would probably help on that front...

Nothing exciting really. I've signed up to Technorati.

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Rather than posting the shots of my ugly mug that I used this for, I'll post a shot of my shiny new Elinchrom Skyport trigger.

I'll try and post a more in-depth report later, but for now lets say they seem to do a good job. If only the universal receivers were available on their own (or Elinchrom did a universal set with multiple receivers - the RX set has 2!).

Now I just need to work out how to light portraits properly...

Despite installing the YAASP Nucleus plugin last year to combat spam comments, the spammers seem to have caught up. So, I've now added the Captcha plugin as a further measure. If this doesn't work, then I'll either try one of the comment moderation plugins, or try one of the comment analysis plugins to try and identify spam comments at source.

I've also added Anti Spam Mail to stop harvesting of email addresses for anyone posting comments.

Finally, I've upgraded Nucleus itself to version 3.24.

Everything seems to be working, but please let me know if you find something not quite right.

Having not posted any photos for a couple of weeks, something new is a bit overdue. So, having got hold of a Kood IR filter (to fit the P-size filter holder), and run a few test shots to see how it works. The D200 has a fairly effective IR filter on in front of the sensor, so I've been running 30 second exposures and quite wide appertures to get anything useable.

Also, the lovely blue skies we've had lately vanished this evening, to I've been experimenting with other subjects instead.

Have a look at the other test shots in my Infrared set.

PS Suppose I better to pay Mark for the filter now...