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  • Stretching whilst hiking

    Those of you who have seen me exercising in the past few years, will have noticed that I stretch the heck out of my Achilles tendon before doing anything. After a few years of doing this, my Achilles tendon is finally starting to feel healthy again 🙂

    ryan-stretching

    The picture was taken during a day hiking trip in Brandenburg. Thanks to Janie for taking the photo.

  • Abseiling in Jordan

    Abseiling in Jordan

    The last time I went abseiling was in 1992. That time didn’t go so well, mostly because we had a silly teacher barking orders at us rather than just letting us hoppity hop our way down the cliff! This time went much more smoothly and was really quite easy 🙂 This was in a small canyon in Jordan, near the Dead Sea.

    Thanks to Anarchy Productions for the pictures, which I stole from their video footage.

    Ryan abseiling

    Ryan abseiling

  • Copy cat

    People keep learning how to write code. But that’s just silly. Just copy some of my stuff, remove the license and copyright notice and upload it somewhere and pretend it’s yours. Simple really …

    copycat

    Here is the source code, which you can compare to my Disable Emoji’s plugin code. They’re basically the same 😛

    <?php
    /*
    Plugin Name: Remove Emojis
    Plugin URI: http://wpvkp.com/
    Description: Helps to unregister enojis from wordpress. It also unrigister the emojis from the wordpress post editor.
    Version: 1.1
    Author: designvkp
    Author URI: http://wpvkp.com/
    License: GPL2
    
    */
    
    function disable_emojis_tinymce( $plugins ) {
    	if ( is_array( $plugins ) ) {
    		return array_diff( $plugins, array( 'wpemoji' ) );
    	} else {
    		return array();
    	}
    }
    
    
    function disable_emojis() {
    	remove_action( 'wp_head', 'print_emoji_detection_script', 7 );
    	remove_action( 'admin_print_scripts', 'print_emoji_detection_script' );
    	remove_action( 'wp_print_styles', 'print_emoji_styles' );
    	remove_action( 'admin_print_styles', 'print_emoji_styles' );	
    	remove_filter( 'the_content_feed', 'wp_staticize_emoji' );
    	remove_filter( 'comment_text_rss', 'wp_staticize_emoji' );	
    	remove_filter( 'wp_mail', 'wp_staticize_emoji_for_email' );
    	add_filter( 'tiny_mce_plugins', 'disable_emojis_tinymce' );
    }
    add_action( 'init', 'disable_emojis' );
    
    
    

    The “author” was wpvkp.

  • Random question of the day

    How would I go about setting up an intranet, which I could broadcast via WiFi from my laptop? I’d like to sit on planes, trains etc. and broadcast a free WiFi signal which oaded nothing more than a website on my local server. That way I could run a little chat app and chit-chat with all the other people on the plane/train. Plus, I could cache some interesting web pages, news etc. for them too.

    Has anyone out there done this before, or have any tips?

    Free-Wifi

  • Science Center Berlin

    Fun day out at the Science Center Berlin, for an exhibit about human mobility.

    Francisco's arm
    Francisco’s arm
    Michelles hand
    Michelles hand
    Michelle on a wheelchair
    Michelle on a wheelchair
    Ryan Hellyer's arm
    My arm
  • Reichstag

    The Reichstag in Berlin, the current home of the Bundestag (German parliament). The building was built in 1894. Many people blame the rise of Nazi socialism to a suspicious fire in this building in 1933. It was badly damaged during World War 2 and was not properly rebuilt until after the reunification of Germany.

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    reichstag-2

  • Erpetal hike

    I went on a beautiful hike from a small place called Erpetal in Brandenburg.

    Erpetal hike

    Erpetal hike

    Julia on Erpetal hike

  • Berlin festival of lights

    Berlin festival of lights

    The Berlin Festival of Lights is an annual event in which various monuments are lit up with spectacular light displays.

    berlin-tower-1

    brandenburgertor-1

    brandenburgertor-2

    brandenburgertor-3

    building-1

    humboldt-1

    mada-1

    near-humboldt-1