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!
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