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Testing trackbacks with George’s website

It might be useful one day…

This is a test post to demonstrate how to use the SlideShow Pro flash slide show control.

if (AC_FL_RunContent == 0) {
alert(”This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.js.”);
} else {
AC_FL_RunContent(
‘codebase’, ‘http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0′,
‘width’, ‘562′,
‘height’, ‘447′,
’src’, ’slideshow’,
‘quality’, ‘best’,
‘pluginspage’, ‘http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer’,
‘align’, ‘middle’,
‘play’, ‘true’,
‘loop’, ‘true’,
’scale’, ’showall’,
‘wmode’, ‘window’,
‘devicefont’, ‘false’,
‘id’, ’slideshow’,
‘bgcolor’, ‘#000000′,
‘name’, ’slideshow’,
‘menu’, ‘true’,
‘allowFullScreen’, ‘true’,
‘allowScriptAccess’,’sameDomain’,
‘movie’, ’slideshow’,
’salign’, ”
); //end AC code
}

And then just a regular image.

I’ve just written my first wordpress template.  You can see it in action on George’s new vegan blog www.animalsnotingredients.co.uk.
I’m pretty happy with my html and css, but most of my coding has been done in the java world, so the switch to php has been interesting.  I used to have java blogging software pebble installed [...]

So it turns out it was FreeBSD all along.
Following some of the problems I’d had with my wife’s blog I decided to reinstall the web server in our data centre (the kitchen). I eventually got Centos installed, which after some playing with the BIOS and network card was much easier to configure. Using [...]

I messed about with Expression Engine for a bit and it was alright, but I thought I’d look into wordpress and it’s bloody smart, I can tell you. I’ve installed it - twice (see Mrs W’s blog - www.purplepetal.co.uk), downloaded and customised a template and seem to be ready to rock.
I’ll try to post [...]