Author Archives: Thea Stainsby

More on NextGEN Gallery

After importing photos from my iPhone on the iPhone app to NextGEN Gallery and finding they were not correctly oriented, I went about experimenting with photos that had hit Windows XP using the Windows Live Photo Gallery and Adobe Photoshop … Continue reading

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NextGEN Gallery from the iPhone!

The photo gallery plugin that I use now has an iPhone app to load a gallery. If I am lucky, what you see below came from there!

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New blogger in the Stainsby family

With Hayden’s help, I have set up a blog site for Evan and Steph and I hope they spend some time recording their adventures on it whilst they are away. Updated March 25th 2011 This is not a temporary site … Continue reading

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Going and Gone

Hayden has come and gone. I think this is the last time he will return home to us for a couple of years – time to knuckle down to study. No one else he knows is getting married. As always … Continue reading

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Under Construction

For my birthday Hayden gave me the book Smashing WordPress by Thord Daniel Hedengren, and Bruce has just recently designed a header for this blog. That means that this site is “Under Construction” as I work out how to adjust … Continue reading

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Vietnamese Roads

The first experience on a road in Vietnam is horrific. As an international visitor you are likely to be in a modern bus or car with a little grunt therefore most other vehicles travel more slowly than you. There are … Continue reading

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Cleaning Up – 2010

 What happens when you are not rushing off to work every day? You notice that this could be cleaned and that could be cleaner and oh… look at that over there, it needs a dust. And so that was how … Continue reading

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Early Adopter or Follower?

I don’t especially regard myself as an early adopter but I hate to think of myself as a follower.  I think I sit somewhere in the middle, take up new technology after others have proven it but before it is … Continue reading

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Learning PHP

It is wild and windy outside, not a good day to be out and about, so I spent some of my day learning the basics of PHP. I created a test site, with a form to key in some information … Continue reading

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Why am I here?

I have started a new life – living off the funds accumulated over a previous lifetime of work.  It’s called retirement. This is an opportunity to do all the things I’ve been meaning to do in the other lifetimes, and … Continue reading

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