Category Archives: Computing

More on NextGEN Gallery

Posted on 13 April 2011 by Thea Stainsby

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!

Posted on 30 March 2011 by Thea Stainsby

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

Posted on 23 March 2011 by Thea Stainsby

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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Under Construction

Posted on 4 March 2011 by Thea Stainsby

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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Early Adopter or Follower?

Posted on 7 December 2010 by Thea Stainsby

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

Posted on 28 November 2010 by Thea Stainsby

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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I am retired!

Posted on 30 September 2010 by Thea Stainsby

After 43 years in the computer industry (yes, I am an early adopter) and 7 years at Inmatrix-into-SunGard, today I retire. It will be hard not focussing on the next activities I need to undertake at work, and I am … Continue reading →

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35 into 25,000

Posted on 10 February 2010 by Thea Stainsby

Last week the little company I have worked for during the past 6 years was “acquired”.  Vale Inmatrix, hello SunGard. Inmatrix was a small software developer specialising in Financial Analysis applications, currently with 35 people on board.  It is going … Continue reading →

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