Well June 21st has been and gone so the days are getting shorter, this means I’m officially allowed to start thinking about snowy pursuits again! I’ve decided on my 5 missions for this season
- Take my CASI Level 1 (and ideally pass it)
- Learn more about avalanches (Whistler run some Free Avalanche Awareness Tours but this seems a minimum)
- Go on a (guided?) backcountry adventure (WhistlerGuides), need to do some research here
- Nail a 360 (freestyle still isn’t really my thing)
- Ride as much as possible in as many resorts as possible
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I resisted for ages but recently John succumbed closely followed by Ruth so I figured I’d take a look and see what everyone was talking about. It turns out it’s frighteningly addictive, I have 59 friends (largely ex-colleagues) , I’ve persuaded several other people to join (sorry guys) and got back in contact with a few people I’d lost touch with. It’s actually a really good way to keep in touch with people. It’s similar to LinkedIn and Friends Reunited (both of which I’ve been a member of for a while) but without the charges to send messages to people. Anyway if you know me, add me as a friend
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As you’ve probably noticed (or not since I always read blogs via rss and you probably do too) I recently stuffed up our blog, now this isn’t that uncommon (I like to fiddle with things and often end up breaking them) however this time I really messed something up and couldn’t persuade pebble to work. Now mainly this is because Tomcat, JSP and me are things that rarely mix so I decided it was time to switch to a blog platform I had half a clue how to support (and change for that matter).
Anyway we’ve switched to WordPress which was remarkably easy to install and configure, finding a nice theme was probably the hardest part (I’m still fiddling with it but it’s pretty close). It actually feels slower than Pebble which is a testament to Simon’s coding prowess since Tomcat isn’t exactly a lightweight application. I’m hoping the wp-cache plugin will mitigate this somewhat.
There are certainly a few broken links around (missing images mainly) and probably some duff deep links floating about on the web (mod_rewrite to the rescue!), I’ve found a few already and redirected the rss feeds to their new location. I need to decide what to do about the root rss feed since WordPress doesn’t handle multiple blogs as nicely as Pebble. I might knock up a snippet of PHP to amalgamate the three rss feeds into one if I get time. I also need to replace the old Pebble frontpage with something sensible.
Migrating content was pretty simple, Wordpress has an extended version of RSS which it will import and Pebble helpfully stores everything in XML so I knocked up a quick C# app to convert all my Pebble entries into Wordpress ones. I’ve attached the code so you can take a look. It’s pretty simple but may come in handy for someone else one day. It’s only tested on my data so it may not work well for everybody!
Pebble XML to Wordpress RSS
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