Everyone says that spring in Norway is beautiful. So we decided to celebrate it by having a barbecue by the lake at a balmy -3°. We also discovered that putting a baby disposable barbecue on a wooden bench is not such a good idea, unless of course you want to barbecue your food with the table itself.
I went for a beer with the lovely Fonda. I ended up drinking beer with 40% alcohol content. I’m going to file this in the “it seemed like a good idea at the time” basket! It tasted something like a cross between tequila and vodka. At no point did I sense a taste of beer 😛
Milan and I felt like a couple of eastern European gangsters as we transported my new TV across via the subway 🙂
I stayed at a hytta (cabin) after a skiing trip with Ingvild, Live and Irene. It was an awesome little place with a great view out over a frozen lake.
This is what happened when I ported a couple of SMF forums over to bbPress.
I accidentally stumbled across this screenshot from geek.hellyer.kiwi in 2008.
From the old to the new. I upgraded SlapShot.net.nz this evening from SMF 1.1.14 to the latest bbPress plugin for WordPress. I’d been running an out of date, unpatched, insecure SMF installation for well over a year now. Plus I haven’t been doing any backups of it. By moving it to the bbPress plugin I can now run it on the same infrastructure I use for the rest of my sites and hence keep things a little more under control. SMF isn’t quite as feature rich as I’d like, but I understand WordPress a lot more and have infrastructure and systems in place for handling it, so the cost on my time will be much less. My other option was to kill off the forum, which I really didn’t want to do, even though it’s mostly a ghost town these days as people have migrated towards Facebook to discuss hockey in NZ these days.
Here’s what it used to look like …
Here’s the interim look for it as I needed to convert it to run on the phpBB3 software first (there’s no direct SMF -> bbPress converter).
The conversion to bbPress went okay. It takes a while, but works well.
Here’s the default look of bbPress. Unfortunately at this point the topics/forums appeared to be a bit munged. Thankfully it fixed itself later on in the importation process.
And here is the final view of the forum. It’s a little boring looking, but at least it’s all secured and stashed permanently for archival reasons.
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Some photos showing the beautiful landscape from my recent ski trip.
We started an awesome little fire at the hytta during my ski trip with Live, Ingvild and Irene.
