eBothy Blog

My, it’s been a busy couple of days. I seem to be knocking out widgets and plugins like nobody’s business! Anyway, here’s another one. It’s a feed reader plugin that also displays images in posts. Download it here. (more…)

I’ve ported my original code to a WordPress widget that displays a random image from your Flickr collection. You can download the widget here. (more…)

I’ve ported my original code to a WordPress widget that displays the latest reading from the Cairngorm Automatic Weather Station (AWS). You can download the widget here. (more…)

I’ve developed a WordPress widget that displays the mini flash slideshow I developed a few years ago. It’s easy to install. All you have to do is upload a slideshow to your blog. (more…)

This is a test to see how my plugin is getting along. It lets you embed a flash slideshow in a blog post. If you look in the sidebar to the right, you’ll see the widget version. (more…)

Just discovered this superb website from Joe Simpson. I’m a great fan of his writing so looking forward to reading all the articles. Read the article on reaching 40. However, I read the article on global warming with some alarm as he mentions huge rockfalls on the Matterhorn and climbing on the mountain actually being banned. I don’t think it’s banned now, must have been a temporary precaution. When I climbed the Matterhorn there was a fair amount of maybe grade II ice on the summit block and the only rockfall occurred the night before, while we were bivvying below the hut. In fact, you read all about it here.

Here’s a not very good recording of me playing Stompin’ on the tappahamok. I recorded it with a tiny microphone. I’ll try again later when I get hold of a decent mic.

 

 Stompin' on the tappahamok [2:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Gun ainm [1:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I had a day off work on Thursday and the forecast was good, with a large high over the UK, light winds from the NW, swinging round to the SW with high cloud well clear of the tops. There had been sleet and snow on the highest tops, above 1000m on Wednesday and the forecast was predicting near freezing temperatures at 900m. Sounded to good so I decided on carpe diem and headed for Seana Bhraigh. (more…)

With the winter 2007/8 forecast out, the threat of yet another half-winter got me thinking about days of old. (more…)

The Met Office have published their winter 2007/8 predictions. Looks like it’s going to be another mild one. From they’re saying, it’s going to be near normal winter temperatures at the start of the season with it becoming milder as it progresses. So we might see above average temperatures later in the season. Last winter (2006/7) was the second warmest since 1914 so anything colder than that won’t be hard to produce. (more…)