This section covers my life outside of Trainz and other rail simulators which this site is mostly about. This reflects what else I do in my spare time and you will find the following topics come up amongst others – sometimes with Youtube videos.
- Parish Council work (I am currently as I write this a Parish Council)
- Computing and remote VDI solutions for personal use
- Work (VERY occasionally!)
- Travels
- Website troubleshooting and design.
- Other situations like social situations. As I am openly on the Autistic Spectrum, I sometimes find myself in difficult social situations.
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Knocking my site offline.
Read more: Knocking my site offline.It wasn’t deliberate, honest! Firstly, its been a difficult 24 hours for me, because of this site, I knocked it off unintentionally and it wasn’t because I was doing anything I thought was stupid, but 123-Reg, my domain company has what is suppose to be “Award Winning Customer Service”. Yeah, throw that out of the site for one minute because I want to jump ship! Added a subdomain, easy task right? Wrong! Adding it wiped my entire DNS records. Yikes! It gets much better, I had to repopulate those from scratch, I had about 5 DNS entries on 123-Reg and…
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This joined me on the train.
Read more: This joined me on the train.I do like taking photos of interesting “things”, so this was one of them. Saw this lovely insect flying around the carriage and I had to take a photo of it then stick it on Instagram. With a load of staff (I just happened to be with) and passengers going “What the hell are you taking a photo of?”, even the guard who I was talking to as they nearly get attacked by it, was questioning it, until I took it and turned the phone around. This was South Western Railway’s service 07:20 Portsmouth to London Waterloo service (Headcode 1P51)…
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More website design.
Read more: More website design.This time, its not my own! I mentioned a couple of days ago, I did another test, just to see how Instagram worked and mentioned it was for another site. You can see this site when it’s up on https://tymaran52.wordpress.com/ Well, I went to a pub and got my iPad out, I never thought about developing a site on the worlds smallest computer, but I did it and, create a basic barebones of a site. Its only four pages. Its also proves one other thing, what peoples intentions for sites are. Her’s is to promote her dog history with the…
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Another test! With Instagram.
Read more: Another test! With Instagram.This is to just link my instagram account to my site… oh wait! This actually might take some explaining. I’ve been producing my website for a month at the moment, so my mum came up with an idea “I want to put more on Instagram for Irish Red and White Setters”. Here’s a better suggestion, how about a full on WordPress blog and site? Well, I started it and it doesn’t have to be WordPress, it can be anything. The only thing stopping you is either A) Skills B) Experience C) Plug-ins unless you want to get your hands dirty.…
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”I’m fed up with being cooked everyday, let’s have some snow!”
Read more: ”I’m fed up with being cooked everyday, let’s have some snow!”He isn’t far wrong! Now if you read my about me page, you’d realise where I live. If you looked at the weather for the past 3 months of where I live, you can see that another problem doesn’t bode well (that is being a redhead, here is a post of the problems). I got a message from my dad while at work, it said with what the title states and to be honest, right now? I rather have snow! It is a tinderbox here. It really is! I took these photos earlier in the month, somewhere around the 5th…
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The site looks like its getting bigger
Read more: The site looks like its getting biggerAll through looking through my hard drive. I know a lot of people have been looking for my content for years and isn’t available anywhere anymore – this is what this site was suppose to address, but while clearing out my hard drive and putting what is left as there is a lot of duplicates on said NAS/Hard drive, I came across this folder from a previous site: I had to edit some of the files out, but yes, that is a LOT I need to put up, in addition to what’s up already. This will take a long time…
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Going through my back and forward catalouge
Read more: Going through my back and forward catalougeWhen I produced this site, I never thought I’ll be going through my past and present catalogue of Trainz content nor the extent of how much I made, I mean just look! The worst bit is that is scratching the surface. There is a lot more I haven’t added and there is more in the files directory that I need to catalogue and post on the page. If you think that is bad, my Trainz install is someting else of a lot of self made stuff. Shows you that even though I am quiet most of the time, in the…
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It’s show time!
Read more: It’s show time!So I’ve worked on this site long enough and I thought I’ll start publishing it. That was the hard part. Another plugin added to allow me to move over from the sub folder to the main site. First attempt didn’t work, so I had to erase it and start again. This time it did! And just exactly how I wanted it. It has taken me EIGHT years to get to this point, from concept to final product. I had several tries, and a lot were unsuccessful. I tried “Artisteer”, I went from WordPress to Joomla with no success for the…
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More site development – the side bar
Read more: More site development – the side barAnd I worked from home today, spending quite a bit of time on it. This must have been the most frustrating aspects of creating a WordPress site, but I cracked it finally. The good news is once I create it as a template part, that’s it, it all automatically updates when it refers to that template part…. That was the easy bit! The hard bit? I did some settings changes and I wanted a load of images to represent stops on a route map, so I created a load of images (the LinkedIn, Facebook logo and donate button come from…
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Donate button appearance
Read more: Donate button appearanceSomething you may of noticed that’s been added to the sidebar is a donate button. I’ll be clear first, it is completely optional. I’ve tried to put it in an unintrusive space, so you don’t get bombarded with it being put in your face and this will be the only place I will “promote it”. I’m not going to push it in everyone’s face as I am not like that. I’m not driven solely by money. I got targets, I got desires, agreed, but money is the root of all evil so I’m trying to not get corrupted by money…