Author Archives: ianmacd

Site Upgrade

I upgraded the site to Movable Type 3.34 today and installed mod_fcgid, a FastCGI implementation, which should hopefully provide a few performance improvements. I wish it was easier to merge the latest versions of the default templates with my older … Continue reading

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Icelandic Photos On-Line

Whereas it took us five months to get the photos of our summer trip on-line, it’s taken us only a week to prepare the photos of our most recent trip to Iceland. It definitely helped that there were several thousand … Continue reading

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Summer Trip Photos… finally.

It took quite some time, but I finally finished preparing the photos of our summer trip whilst in Providence. If you have any interest in visiting Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary or Austria (well, Vienna, anyway), you may be interested in looking … Continue reading

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9th January: Spring’s Here!

Our final day in Reykjavík was suitably lazy; until the evening, that is. At 19:30, we were picked up for from the hotel and driven to another bus for the start of our [Northern Lights](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(astronomy)) tour. We did vaguely get … Continue reading

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Long Day, Short Daytime

The alarm went off at 07:30 this morning, not the kind of time I usually like to get up, but we had a ten hour excursion planned for today, so time was of the essence. We couldn’t have picked a … Continue reading

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