Elton One

I have for some time been using Transmission for downloading torrent files. I really like the application for a number of reasons; it’s simple and functional, it’s free, it’s open source and it works really well.

I have however discovered a little issue, or more a behaviour that can be counter productive on occassion. I have been using Transmission installed on a drive which contains the application and all my torrents and torrent files. This has worked fine for ages, but for some reason a while ago I opened Transmission up to find all my torrent files were still there, but had 0% downloaded (despite when I quit it last some of them were nearly complete). I couldn’t understand this, and the files themselves were the correct size, and not 0%. Very confusing. I started off the torrents again and no problem, but I did have to start again.

Then the other week, I couldn’t find Transmission. No idea what happened, possibly I deleted it when deleting torrent files. This made me think of what happened before, and I had no intention of starting some of the files I had downloading again, so I resolved to find out how I could re-install transmission but keep the torrent files in the same place and have them continue from where they left off.

Luckily enough it turns out that if you copy /User/??/Library/Application Support/Transmission and save it somewhere safe then re-install Transmission (I used to have mine in another folder and this time I installed it to Applications - everything was fine), open the application, quit it then replace the folder at /User/??/Library/Application Support/Transmission with the old one. Then re-open Transmission and everything should be back to normal.

Luuuuurvly.

I was looking for the http://www.37signals.com/ site and typed 37 into my google bar. I linked off that to the Wikipedia entry for the number 37, and then straight on to the page for lucky numbers (lucky prime numbers) as 37 is the fifth. It’s interesting as I was watching Lucky Number Slevin today. Think I’ll go buy a scratch card or a ticket for tonights lottery with only luck primes on. Makes sense. Or maybe like quantum mechanics, observing that thread of eventuality has caused it to cease to exist.

Still worth a try I think.

Here is a nice animation from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_prime showing the lucky prime numbers. Good to see 3, 33 and 69 are up there.

I like number theory and it’s relationship with nature. Lots of interesting images like this:

Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_theory

EL011272.ORF

Originally uploaded by e lton1

How about a bit of that

Flickr Blog API
Seems Flickr has an API function that allows it to link up with Wordpress (or other popular blog engine) so you can post your Flickr images to your blog. This effectively becomes your Flickr blog too, so that’s a nice solution.

However, after an easy set up and some nice options and customizable html and css for layout you unfortunately can only post one image at a time to your blog. It would be great if you could post whole sets more easily.
Please someone make this.

Also, you can’t post categories and tags from flickr so you have to add them later which is bum, and if you edit a flickr post using wordpress for some reason the image fails to show up, at least on my version of wordpress (2.3.1) and server. shouldn’t be a problem though. anyone else seeing no image and just the tiny border in this post? so realistically you can’t add categories or tags to posts made in flickr, rendering it pretty useless.
i promise i haven’t deleted anything, i double checked.
very odd..

UPDATE
This happens because Wordpress, on formatting the entry to be edited (but not on saving) for some reason changes the formatting of the HTML as follows:

From this (which works and is from flickr):

<div style=”float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px”>
<a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/eltonone/2030342401/” title=”photo sharing”><img src=”http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2152/2030342401_1caf1c5ffb_m.jpg” style=”border: 2px solid #000000″ /></a>

<span style=”font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px”></span>
<a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/eltonone/2030342401/”>EL011272.ORF</a>

Originally uploaded by <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/people/eltonone/”>e lton1</a>
</span>
</div>

To this (adapted by Wordpress):

<p style=”float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px”> <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/eltonone/2030342401/” title=”photo sharing”><img src=”http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2152/2030342401_1caf1c5ffb_m.jpg” style=”border: 2px solid #000000″ /></a><span style=”font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px”></span>
<a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/eltonone/2030342401/”>EL011272.ORF</a>

Originally uploaded by <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/people/eltonone/”>e lton1</a>

So until Wordpress fixes this bug, change it back and it’ll display right. Until you want to edit it again.
Another thing that might be interesting - if you want to paste code into wordpress an have it show up as plain text, just paste it into the visual window and it’ll be plain. Make sure you click save and continue though because if you go into the code window it screws everything up. I learnt the hard way. Essentially click save and continue all the time and you’ll be ok. Just like word.
|| Made me wonder what the code buttons are for in the code window though (i thought it escaped code, and it sort of does). Don’t get me started on that though..

Anyway..

Wordpress Flickr Photo Album Plugin by Silas Partners
The Flickr plugin I have for Wordpress is good, but you have to select each image individually to get a whole set on (like the sets further down the page), and the title doesn’t link to the set unless you find it out and make it. And for some reason sets are called albums.. and when you add an ‘album’ (it’s a set. call it that. please.) it only adds the first image in that set with a link to that sets page. it’s good, but it’d be better to have the options to add a whole set as:

a) one image you can choose from that set;

or

b) all images from that set

and have the link for each image as the set page or the images page (and be able to choose which).

I think though it might be easy enough to figure out as the Wordpress plugins are in PHP.. then again it’s someones else PHP so it might not.

I’ll add that to the list..