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Tasty! And the jam was quite nice too

The music is… Best Batch Yet (but not the Doc at the Radar Station^W one) by Captain Beefheart^W and (mostly) The Magic Band….

(If you are running some primitive browser (ie Internet Explorer) that does not see the jam video there is an FLV version just for you.)

and caught the first train that turned up; which took us to Oxford^W.

We went for lunch at the Pieminister place in the covered market…

After which we explored the cavernous Blackwell’s book shop and then the Museum of the History of Science with its splendid lighting on the stairs…

but when we came out it was pouring with rain so we had a hot chocolate…

headed back to the station…

and home.

(Martine’s view of the day)

The opening shots are from a head mounted camera hence the swaying effect.

This post was to test the HTML 5^W embedding thing but it did not work. And so there is a better mp4 version (25MB) and a full screen version (120MB) available.

The music is a version of The Maids of Mitchelstown by The Bothy Band^W.

Update:
The HTML 5/ MP4 thing seems to be alive and well. Next stop the Ogg^W version.

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Updated update: There is an Ogg version now and it is working on my Mac with Safari, FireFox, Opera and Chrome browsers. And in FireFox on Ubuntu in Virtual Box too.
So farewell Flash!

but it was bad advice because as soon as you update your WordPress and/or theme files your changes are overwritten and lost. The solution is to move the changes into a child theme where they will overwrite the files in the original theme even when updating.

To make a child theme we simply create a folder in the WordPress themes folder (in the wp-content folder) and give it a name: mychildtheme (or whatever you want to call it).

We then save a plain text file called style.css into the mychildtheme folder. The style.css file reads:

/*
Theme Name: mychildtheme
Template: twentyten
*/

@import url(“../twentyten/style.css”);

#cimy_div_id {
clear: both;
border-top: 4px solid #000;
border-bottom: 1px solid #000;
width: 940px;
height: 198px;
}

Where the Theme name and Template are required to indicate the parent and the child. The import URL grabs the original style.css file to be altered by our style.css file. We then include the #cimy_div_id section that we had originally used in the header.php file.

Create a new plain text file and copy the contents of the header.php file into it. Replace the

code with the

<div id="cimy_div_id">

<noscript>
<img id="cimy_img_id" src="http://yourDomain.com/somePicture.jpg" alt="" />
</noscript>

</div>

as before (we no longer need the styling here as it is in the style.css file), and then save this as header.php into the mychildtheme folder.

We can now preview and activate our mychildtheme as you would any other theme within WordPress. Our modified header.php will be used instead of the default header.php and our style.css will be used to make changes to the default styling. You can add further changes to the styling by adding to the style.css file in the child theme. The Firebug extension for the Firefox browser is a quick way to experiment with making changes before adding the code to your style sheet.

Experimenting with the GameSalad game creation software. It is still a beta version and has crashed my Mac several times – although this is probably largely due to me trying run before I can walk. But it only took a few minutes to cobble together an experimental piece that will become the Intergalactic Goats of Doom (or iGoD but may evolve into the Intergalactic Vomiting Vampire Goats of Doom.

Update: This has now moved to here as the plug in continues to cause problems/crashes.

You just click to move the Smiley (or touch when I get it on an iPad) to or from the goat. Why not? The M key kills the backing beat and the S key starts it again.

…and so it struggled to free itself…

Once freed it sat recuperating for a while; so I stopped filming and it immediately took off into the summer sky…. somedays nothing seems to go right.

Visit the photo gallery for a huge version. One day I will get to film an emerging dragonfly.

Before

and this morning…

After