The original plan was to travel through London and maybe get a tour of the MINI Plant before heading over to Amsterdam. That is still the plan and it looks like MINI is going to really take care of us for it. That means we’ll be soundseeing the plant in Oxford prior to MINI United, as well as some other things I’m sure. We might even get a press car for the day too!

We will be in Amsterdam 1 day early to get setup. We’ll have a tent, a fast internet connection and places to sit for us and anyone else that wants to stop by. Todd thinks we should have a full bar too, but I’mnot sure we’ll get that.

To recap where we will be posting (it has changed a bit).

• Audio and video will be on WRR and MF
• Still waiting for this, but there will be blog posts at the MINI United site.
• With my newest gadget, I will be posting pictures to the Flickr. Oh yea, I’ll be sharing those on the MINI United Flickr Group as well.
• Y’all know I’ll be posting a nugget or two here too.

Personal Wiki time

Things I still need to get.

• Power plug adapters x3 (laptop, camera charger, mixer)
• Need a way to communicate, since I won’t have a phone and I won’t buy an unlocked phone with a prepaid SIM. Maybe a Skype phone?
• A new backpack. Target has a keen Eddie Bauer laptop backpack that I’ve been eyeing
• A pouch/bag for the camera.
• Extra battery for the camera (maybe)
• Airplane power adapter if I fly perferred economy on VA or BA
• Airplane ticket

Misc Stuff

I recently realized that I’ve been making good use of the Wordpress more tag. I also remembered that I complained about that not too long ago. My apologies. I will stop. I only did it because my posts tend to get fairly long sometimes and they hog the page. Trust me, it’s not any wacky SEO tricks (do you see any ads?) or a lame attempt to get you back here to comment (since I’m pretty sure you’ll do that anyway).

Fixed the Google reader problem, for those of you that use it. It was the search highlight plug-in. Probably too old for this version of WP.

And, today, I will end with a few pictures that I have taken this week.

a zoom test. This was taken at full zoom from 25 feet away.

playing around when I had a few extra minutes in the office

taken on Ortega Hwy when I was waiting to pass through the construction zone. I’m pleased with how it turned out.

No I didn’t cure cancer. No, I have not yet harnessed the power of a human sneeze No, I haven’t figured how to keep windows dry after going through a car wash

I have, however, successfully installed WordPress to be used as a very easy to manage CMS!.

The Tools WordPress v1.5 Page to Front plug-in WP Contact Form

With a little help from the WP Codex for category separation and post linking, I have created a site that:

• Can be totally managed by non-HTML knowing users
• Can be edited by non-HTML knowing users
• Pages can be easily added and are linked up automatically
• Won’t have the layout borked by non_HTML knowing users

All of that from the WP GUI. I ever created a cheat sheet of sorts, complete with screen shots.

Anyway, I was excited. That, and I wanted this posted for future reference

Oh yea, the site? Click here.

Trying to help about rachet in his quest for a links page. According to this page in the codex, it actually quite simple to make it happen.

All you have to do is create a file (called page2.php for example) with the layout and WP bits you want. Then, at the top of the page you include something like: < ?php /* Template Name: Snarfer */ ?> Replacing Snarfer with whatever you want to call this page template. Upload into your theme directory.

Then, in the admin to to write a new page. Give it a title and content. Before you click publish, look a little lower for a drop down box that says Page Template and select your template from the drop down list. Once that is done, click publish and voila!

At least it worked for me on my tester. It is still a work in progress.