I am about halfway through an update to all my lenses, adding MediaStorehouse images and links, correcting several broken links, and revising the content.
My other update was a new set of products created on Zazzle for my Stephen and Matilda blog, as well as some more generic ones made for general sales. Matilda is doing surprisingly well - she even made featured kitty status on Redgage for a photo:
Here's another photo of her, again being decidedly cute.
Friday, 30 October 2009
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Feedmysearch issue
Anyone using Feedmysearch might have noticed that they have been having issues. Having hoped that they would work through them, I now find this was a mistake on my part. The feeds I have created on each page now display a large ad saying that Feedmysearch is going down unless extra funding can be found.
I have found another way to create the feeds I want, but it will take a lot longer to set up, so please be patient while I got through the entire lot and switch the modules.
Why Google doesn't just offer the same RSS as Feedmysearch I will never understand.
I have found another way to create the feeds I want, but it will take a lot longer to set up, so please be patient while I got through the entire lot and switch the modules.
Why Google doesn't just offer the same RSS as Feedmysearch I will never understand.
Monday, 26 October 2009
A general update
My time is currently being taken up with a sick cat. Thankfully, he now seems to be on the mend, and I can get back to writing, making lenses and work (the thing that puts food on the table and cat food in the bowl).
The novel is now at a publisher, and sitting with a few agents to see if I get any feedback. I was somewhat disappointed with one such contact, who I had submitted two items to and got two identical rejection emails. However they looked too identical, so I also checked the mime headers and properties on the email. It appears to be auto-generated, possibly on a timer from date of receipt. The timestamps on both certainly make for an interesting comparison. This doesn't give me any great hope that they actually read it. So if you're an agent, I know that you get hundreds of manuscripts through daily, but please be honest if you aren't going to read them or aren't accepting submissions right now. It saves me time on stamps and emails.
I've put together a Stephen and Matilda lens about the cats to try nand ease myself back into it.
The travelling squid is causing me a problem. The memory card in my camera was broken, so when I took the shots it saved them into memory. However I now can't get them out to send them on for the blog. ARGH!
The novel is now at a publisher, and sitting with a few agents to see if I get any feedback. I was somewhat disappointed with one such contact, who I had submitted two items to and got two identical rejection emails. However they looked too identical, so I also checked the mime headers and properties on the email. It appears to be auto-generated, possibly on a timer from date of receipt. The timestamps on both certainly make for an interesting comparison. This doesn't give me any great hope that they actually read it. So if you're an agent, I know that you get hundreds of manuscripts through daily, but please be honest if you aren't going to read them or aren't accepting submissions right now. It saves me time on stamps and emails.
I've put together a Stephen and Matilda lens about the cats to try nand ease myself back into it.
The travelling squid is causing me a problem. The memory card in my camera was broken, so when I took the shots it saved them into memory. However I now can't get them out to send them on for the blog. ARGH!
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Mosquito Images alert
I think I've finally got linking working and have started adding a few images from the datafeed to the de Havilland Mosquito page. One of the best is this cutaway view of the Mosquito Mark II:
Unfortunately it doesn't have a preview image available, or it would be straight on the lens, since its a mechanic's dream. It takes a bit of time to set these links up, so it might be several days before they appear on my other lenses. The problem is that neither squidoo nor google sites allow script or PHP links, which are the default. Getting a link set up required playing with the datafeed to get an HTML format set up. Let me know what you think.
For images like the one on the left from £9.99, it definitely seems worth the hassle though.
Currently I'm just running through adding a text link to each collection's homepage. Then I need to see which ones I can get preview images for from the datafeed and add them (how I did the Mosquito lens).
It's also a chance for me to try and deal with the cats who have discovered that they can get into the boiler cupboard. Burnt cat's fur smells horrible, so I'm trying to avoid it.
Unfortunately it doesn't have a preview image available, or it would be straight on the lens, since its a mechanic's dream. It takes a bit of time to set these links up, so it might be several days before they appear on my other lenses. The problem is that neither squidoo nor google sites allow script or PHP links, which are the default. Getting a link set up required playing with the datafeed to get an HTML format set up. Let me know what you think.
For images like the one on the left from £9.99, it definitely seems worth the hassle though.
Currently I'm just running through adding a text link to each collection's homepage. Then I need to see which ones I can get preview images for from the datafeed and add them (how I did the Mosquito lens).
It's also a chance for me to try and deal with the cats who have discovered that they can get into the boiler cupboard. Burnt cat's fur smells horrible, so I'm trying to avoid it.
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
A small update
Well, I've got permission for the aircraft photos but their link widgets don't work with the sites I need to use them on, so some creaive coding may have to take place.
Yesterday I got a lens set up for the google site I am working on, and it's already getting some traffic.
Squidoo are trying an interesting experiment about splitting long lenses over several pages. I haven't volunteered any of mine, because the links in the nav are a dropdow and not obvious. However once they have sorted the teething problems out, this could let me expand a lot of the aviation sites considerably.
And having been awake since 3 dealing with a catfight, anything I do will be completed in the afternoon.
Yesterday I got a lens set up for the google site I am working on, and it's already getting some traffic.
Squidoo are trying an interesting experiment about splitting long lenses over several pages. I haven't volunteered any of mine, because the links in the nav are a dropdow and not obvious. However once they have sorted the teething problems out, this could let me expand a lot of the aviation sites considerably.
And having been awake since 3 dealing with a catfight, anything I do will be completed in the afternoon.
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