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Updating SlideshowPro Director Using cURL

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PHPI like SlideshowPro Director and use it to serve all the photographic content on this site. However, although it has an extensive API, it is impossible to remotely trigger a database update for new photos without logging in to the administration interface. This is irritating since, on this site, I use a script to scan my Twitter stream, retrieve the full-size versions of any photographs I post, and insert them into my “Life Stream” – but, without manually updating SlideshowPro, these photographs will not appear in my “Recent Photos” stream. Thankfully, cURL can come to the rescue!


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A little landmark moment…

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This may not be the most thrilling post, but I’ve finally secured every variant .com and .co.uk domain for my name 8)

For quite a few years I’ve owned rachaelbond.com, rachael-bond.com, rachel-bond.com, rachealbond.com, racheal-bond.com, rachaelbond.co.uk, rachael-bond.co.uk, rachelbond.co.uk, rachel-bond.co.uk, rachealbond.co.uk and racheal-bond.co.uk.

The one domain I didn’t own was rachelbond.com. The registration was finally dropped this evening and now belongs to yours truly.

Not exactly a momentous occasion, but a little landmark none the less.

The Christmas 2010 lights in Palma de Mallorca

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Palma is just so unbelievably pretty in the run-up to Christmas :)
For more pictures of Palma de Mallorca click here.

The Bay Open 2010

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A very delayed posting about this!

On the 27th of November I took part in “The Bay Open” fencing competition. This is held every year in Morecambe and is unusual in that it has men and women fighting together.


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