The Purple Penguin

Or going down to Glastonbury field, does not have quite the same ring to it as strawberries fields, the the sentiment of nothing is real is the same. So first thing was to check-in with the site office for adsl line, and wireless frequencies. It all sort of when down from there 🙁 It turns out (as usually i have to say what was promised was on delivered, so rather than setting up a mini network for are site workers, i spent most of the day trying to get the bandwidth required, so we are trying several routes to get this done.

I did manager to setup some stuff, for basic printing and so on. The after lunch at the goose hall

is was on your bike (well firms bike or was that death trap, I,m shore brakes are ment to do some thing) to look at the various parts of the site ware equipment should be locate, well i would have taken some picture of this but all you would see is nice green grass with white lines painted on it. Situation normal then, back to the site office through the dust, good job i waring karkey to day 🙂 . The weather was bright and sunny (so i’m a bit burned to day). More conversations on what to do next, we have a plan, that will teach olly to say quietly confidant! then back to the Greenpeace field, before heading back to London.

Today is about adsl lines, a kit getting all together for shipping down to the site.

So get out the tent, and put it up (which we nearly could not) the tent is bigger than our patch of grass in our back garden. That need some repair, sewing with fishing line a new book out soon by Kathleen. Air out the sleeping bags shortly followed by wash the sleeping bags, pile the mats chairs and bit for packing.

Next book the train ticket, to Castle Cary (the closes raily station), and book your taxi as those buses only run when the festivals is on.

Final the work stuff, tools spares more cable, make a stack to be Carried to the site. Will be down on Tuesday for the first look and see whats up.

So a list of things to bring,

1 Wellies

2 Ear plugs

3 Loo role

4 Rain gear

5 Sun cream

6 Some thing to eat off, some thing to eat with and drink out of).

7 Change of cloths

8 Wash stuff (but not soap its provided)

9 Beer (plastic only)

10 Tools , Spares

11 Alarm Clock

12 Torch plus batteries

13 Tent, pegs poles sleeping bag sleeping mat, pillow

Got to work Friday morning to find no Internet connectivity, so down to the server room to investigate only to find water dripping out of one of the chilled water coolers. A quick bucket under it and turned it off, how ever this had no connection with the lack of connectivity on are lease line. So quick check on the monitoring software (it had failed about 10 in the evening, ) and a phone call to the suppliers some fault in the fiber line. It still was not fix when i left in the evening. So between doing all the work around getting the first round of people on site for the festival, a busy day was had.

So at the end of the day the IT dept when down to the pub The Mucky Pup, we had a drink before we meet with some friends and partners. We then went looking for some thing to eat, ended up trying a new place Say Pasta. Witch was a er pasta place, reasonable place a bit small, food was ok nuffing to blog about raily 🙂 .

Thursday night we meet up to go to the garden center in Camden, there Kathleen brought a new stand for her bird feeders. So even more fat spugies in the back garden.

After that we popped into one of our favourite restaurants called theWindmill on High Street, Walthamstow a Portuguese tapas place (the services can some times be a little slow & they only take cash no cards) but the food is very good. Where we had peri peri chicken, slow cooked ribs with black olives, roast potatoes and chorizo and pickled artichoke hearts. Washed down with a very nice beer supa bock lemon, and a white wine.

As you can see I’m trying out different wordpress skins. So far this is the second one i have tried, the first ran in to the google in line maps problem.

This one so far has not had that problem is call “Remember” version 1.11 by Becca Wei

Apart from having fish on it on penguins i quite like it ( plus the fact that i don,t have to mess with the css), if i,m feeling board i may try to fix the first one. Or ever try to replace the fish with penguins.

Final many thanks to Gruff been the official first commenter, only beaten one day by some spam 🙂 witch the automatic zapper court and dealt with.

I know there trying to change the OED Mcjob Title See the Beeb, but are they now trying to claim working there is a calling. 🙂

One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret
Never to be told.

That is an a nursery rhyme I learnt as a kid about Magpies. How ever this morning, after a cries of sweeeetie, I don’t know what a dead half eaten one brings. That what we found in the garden this morning. (K: not in the garden, that would have been, well, still icky but this one was right outside the back door! A head and a bunch of feathers! At least the rest of it was behind the bits of wood that Homebase calls a shed. More on that later probably.) Just a bunch of feathers  and some wing was all that was visible at first, but peering behind the bits of shed (the shed is a whole another story which Kathleen may or may not post), was the rest. Which has now been laid to rest in the bin.

Witch in work terms means, preparing for the big mud, other wise known as the Glastonbury festival. This means design a network for a green field site, literally 🙂 Green-field Festival SiteMost of the year the place has cows on it. This will be are biggest and most ambisuse implementation yet, a wireless network linking back stage at the pyramid, the Greenpeace field and possibly access in cafe Tango.

We have just got a site lay out and have basic planing on access points and coverage, this year they say most of the site will be covered any way, well we’ll wight and see. Hot on our success at FOSDEM this year we “quietly confident” says Olly. So weather and power permitting, and no big solar arrays in the way like last time 🙂 we should have it covered.

I believe i have gotten this to work now 🙂

Steps

1) Download the Inline Google Maps WordPress plug-in form

Avi Alkalay.

2) Follow his instructions

Upload the plug-in to your site.

Turn the plug-in on.

Configure the plug-in, you will find it under the option tab, google inline maps.

3) Apply for your Google Maps API.

When applying for your Google Maps API, it seams to be best to use your the root URL.

As when they say pacific directory. It also seams to include that directory and those below it. This confused me for a wile, as to what was exactly meant on the Google web page instructions.

4) Final I had to edit the css style sheet.

We use the WordPress Default 1.6 by Michael Heilemann

This cause the maps to appear as gray blocks.

This also  still happens if you use IE7 to view the map.

To fix the IE7 error see

http://blogan.net/blog/2007/05/29/google-maps-plugin-works-for-k2-theme/

you have wrap your code with div tags so <div> at the start and </div> at the end.

So reading this site

http://code.google.com/p/kaytwo/issues/detail?id=179&can=2&q=

I made a change to the stylesheet as suggested.

To do this log-in as admin user, goto the Presentations tab then select theme Editor, then on the right hand side click Stylesheet. Scroll Down the Code till you find /*Begin Images*/

I do not know any thing about css, (so this may have broken some thing but so far it looks ok) because of that I only commented out the line (this way it is easy to add back in if any thing goes wrong :)), and add my new line in.

By surrounding the max-width: 100%; with /* (start comment) and */ (end comment) what ever process the style sheet will ignore that line.

The line I add in was

max-width: auto;

Final save this back to your web site by clicking the update file button at the bottom of the screen.

It should then look like this.

/* Begin Images */
p img {
padding: 0;
/* max-width: 100%;*/
max-width: auto;
}

/* Using ‘class=”alignright”‘ on an image will (who would’ve
thought?!) align the image to the right. And using ‘class=”centered’,
will of course center the image. This is much better than using
align=”center”, being much more futureproof (and valid) */

This appears to make the maps work, and has not yet (so far) made any thing not work. I will update this post if i find any thing wrong.