New Flickr album of a walk around the Attenborough Nature Reserve in Nottingham. A really pleasant place and only a handful of miles from Nottingham city centre.
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Two new sets of photos taken from a couple of National Trust places in Cambridgeshire as I travelled back from Essex.
Gallery from Anglesey Abbey, Gardens and Lode Mill can be seen here.
Gallery from Houghton Mill is here.
I’ve recently added OpenID support to my WordPress installations via a plugin. This allows anyone with an OpenID to log in and set up a profile using an existing provider such as Google,Yahoo etc rather than having to remember yet another username/password combination. However the one problem I have had using OpenID is that I settled on Google as my provider (mainly because I use it all the time and therefore remember the credentials!) which works fine but required me to remember and type the rather lengthy domain that points to my Google profile. This also means that things show up as Google instead of one of my own domains. It would be nice I thought to be able to register/log in to sites that support OpenID with my own domain name(s) instead. Not just because it is less to type but also because it identifies me slightly better. Luckily it is a very basic process to set this up. Using Google requires slightly amended syntax from some other providers but the concept is the same, namely that you need to add a couple of LINK REL tags into the HEAD section of a html file on the domain you want to use. In order to get Google to act as the delegated provider you need to add the following into a page on your domain, I had the best results putting it in my index.html file at the root of the hosting folder. If you haven’t already it may be worth checking the settings of your Google profile and setting it to something easy to type rather than the default long number.
And that’s it. Once you’ve done that you can now use your domain name as an OpenID, so in my case I can just use keavey.net (or keavey.com as they both point to the same place) as my OpenID. This will delegate to Google for confirmation when you first use a site in this way and that’s it.
Went for a walk around Carsington Water today. Carsington is a reservoir in Derbyshire (near Ashbourne) run by Severn Trent. The site has some really nice walks, all well signposted and it’s easy to combine them with other freely available instructions on the internet to take in some of the local villages as well as the water itself. I did the longest of the marked walks today which comes in at around 8.5 miles and takes you all around the water. Well worth a trip. I’ve read research along these lines before but this is a really nice way of illustrating the findings relating to what motivates us to work. The results surprise many but should be mandatory reading for anyone who manages others.  Goose from Rufford Abbey Up on Flickr now are two sets of photos taken from a trip around Nottinghamshire. The first batch are from the English Heritage site Rufford Abbey (and the park around it) including a walk around the lake. The second is from The Workhouse which is a National Trust property in Southwell and was a Workhouse founded in 1824 which pioneered the concepts of forced labour for men and women “paupers” and full segregation of men, women and children. The model was taken up by what became the Union workhouses featured in many a Dickens novel.
Calke Abbey in Derbyshire is a National Trust property that is unique in that far from being a place that has been renovated it has been restored back to the eccentric ramshackle creation of the former owners. A couple of elements stand out, pigs and stuffed birds. Lots of stuffed birds. Pics now up on Flickr.
DISCLAIMER: What I’m about to describe is tortuous and potentially useless but I use it and I even give an easier alternative so there
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Google tend to get most of the buzz (no pun intended) around the “Cloud” and Microsoft tend to be seen as a company who are being dragged kicking and screaming in that direction. As a Gmail user I am as guilty as anyone of this, indeed I even commit the ultimate indignity to Microsoft by POPing my Hotmail into Gmail. However I have had Hotmail for much longer than Gmail and have seen it go through many changes in terms of positioning. What I hadn’t until recently realised is that behind the revamping to MSN and then to Live, Microsoft have actually added something pretty good. I’m talking about 25Gb of free storage in SkyDrive. I will assume from this point onward that you already have a Windows Live ID via Hotmail, MSN or Live and therefore access to SkyDrive! Continue reading Map A SkyDrive Folder In Windows via Office 2010 |
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