Procrastination Specialist
Tuesday, 8. January 2008, 14:31:32
If there were awards for procrastination, I'd be a winner! 
Nearly five years ago in April 2003, my Dad and I took a two-and-a-bit week holiday out "bush". We visited all sorts of places, modern and historical. During the trip I kept a diary on my Psion netBook, even going to the trouble of beaming (via infrared) photo thumbnails from my digital camera to ensure I'd later match the correct photo to the narrative.
At the time I thought this work would mean a finished trip diary up within weeks of our return.
Over this Christmas break I made the time to finally finish that trip diary, and bring the diary I made of a previous trip up to the same standard as this latest one.
You see, my Dad and I did a similar trip in April 2002 and I made a simple set of web pages for that, but I wasn't happy with how it had turned out and I wanted to rework the whole thing. That sort of explains the delay doing the second diary.
The latest trip, and now the first as well, have been done using TiddlyWiki, plus a couple of selected plugins: Saq Imtiaz's TiddlyLightBoxPlugin (with some significant alterations by yours truly), Eric Shulman's SinglePageModePlugin, StoryViewerPlugin and NestedSlidersPlugin. I also ported the Javascript from my original trip diary pages into a TiddlyWiki plugin of my own - code that performs latitude/longitude distance calculations.
Anyway, enough of all that. These trip diaries, for those who are interested, are at:
http://www.scss.dyndns.info/family/holidays/
Phew! That's one job off my long todo list!
Nearly five years ago in April 2003, my Dad and I took a two-and-a-bit week holiday out "bush". We visited all sorts of places, modern and historical. During the trip I kept a diary on my Psion netBook, even going to the trouble of beaming (via infrared) photo thumbnails from my digital camera to ensure I'd later match the correct photo to the narrative.
At the time I thought this work would mean a finished trip diary up within weeks of our return.
Over this Christmas break I made the time to finally finish that trip diary, and bring the diary I made of a previous trip up to the same standard as this latest one.
You see, my Dad and I did a similar trip in April 2002 and I made a simple set of web pages for that, but I wasn't happy with how it had turned out and I wanted to rework the whole thing. That sort of explains the delay doing the second diary.
The latest trip, and now the first as well, have been done using TiddlyWiki, plus a couple of selected plugins: Saq Imtiaz's TiddlyLightBoxPlugin (with some significant alterations by yours truly), Eric Shulman's SinglePageModePlugin, StoryViewerPlugin and NestedSlidersPlugin. I also ported the Javascript from my original trip diary pages into a TiddlyWiki plugin of my own - code that performs latitude/longitude distance calculations.
Anyway, enough of all that. These trip diaries, for those who are interested, are at:
http://www.scss.dyndns.info/family/holidays/
Phew! That's one job off my long todo list!
WIDGETIZE
Chris Cooper # 26. February 2009, 10:25
I was fascinated by this application of TiddlyWiki. You've portrayed your experiences practically hour by hour!
I'm fiddling around with TW at the moment - I'd like to use it to make a home page. I googled to find out why I was having trouble viewing the page on my HTC Touch Diamond (Windows Mobile, of course) - I'm seeing code instead of a properly rendered page. I came across your sites. Looks as if getting TW to work on the HTC is going to need a bit more than my idiot-level competence. (I'm so frustrated by the HTC, which was passed on to me by my daughter, who also hated it, that I've just had to put my SIM card back into my trusty old Nokia 9300i, so that I can have a usable phone.)
Anyway, I was glad to see that I already had a link to your Psion pages in PsionWiki (http://psionwiki.wikidot.com) - maybe you could put up a link to PsionWiki?
Best,
Chris
Andrew Gregory # 27. February 2009, 13:35
Thanks for your comments. I've linked to your site - seems only fair since you linked to mine so long ago!
You should try downloading Opera Mobile for your HTC Touch, which was one of the main testing devices. I'm sure it would do a much better job than Pocket IE!