Just yesterday we have a new addition to the house a tiny ball of fluff known as Ollivander. Ollivander is a 12 week old Maine Coon kitten, I’m sure that very soon I will have amassed a ton of photos of him but for now here are a few of him on his first day at home. 

I finally got around to fixing my rss feed today, so I thought I would post this quick snippet as it may be helpful to others. I use the standard RSS template that came with Expression Engine to create my feed the problem was that HTML and images were not showing up in the feed.

This is a simple little fix which requires the following change to the RSS Template:

In the description tag change {exp:xml_encode}{summary}{body}{/exp:xml_encode} to <![CDATA[{summary}{body}]]> this will enable your feed to have both HTML and images shown. Quick and easy for something that can be a pain in the arse.

My most recent photography purchase is the excellent Manfrotto 190 XPROB tripod which came with the Manfrotto 486RC2 Ball Head. I have just received the tripod so I haven’t had an extensive play with it but what I have used I am extremely happy with.

I have had a few tripods so far and all of them(with the exception of the gorillapod, which is also excellent :-)) are, to put it crudely, shit. Firstly I should mention what makes the other tripods crap and lambaste them before I offer the benefits of the Manfrotto.

I love my Mac Mini but really the specs of the machine are a little on the low side, which I suppose is fair enough as it is pitched at switchers. Those getting into a Mac for the first time generally want a basic, cheap pc and already have all the other necessities like keyboard, monitor etc.

My Mac Mini came with 1Gb of RAM and a 80Gb hard disk, not really a lot of space for the modern desktop.  Almost immediately after getting the mini I upgraded the RAM, doubling it and now the latest upgrade… the hard disk.....