Ola Lindberg

I did just an upgrade to Wordpress 2.3. Everything went (as usual) nice. All plugins worked out of the box. Lovely sweet!

I run a 14″ build in monitor on my laptop (1024×768) and a 17″ external monitor (1280×1024). I would like to use only the external monitor when I’m at home and the laptop monitor when I’m not. Getting this to play nice has always been a problem in any Linux distribution I have ever tried.

But today I did a dist-upgrade on my Ubuntu Gutsy laptop and for the first time the resolution on my external monitor just popped up in the correct resolution. This is fabulous! I just booted it up and off it went; with the correct resolution. Even the quick buttons (fn-f7) did toggle the monitors on and off as supposed.

Well we are getting there! Believe me! Good work on all you Ubuntu/Xorg/Xserv/Open Source developers!

Update: When I booted my computer today it didn’t really recognize the resolution correct but instead tried to auto configure it. Surprise! It didn’t really work but to my great enjoyment it put up the failsafe X where I could adjust the screen resolution and I was fine to go again. Not perfect but a lot better than before so I’m still happy!

Having the computer hooked up to the TV has always been a hurdle for me. Sometimes you get black and white, sometimes a lot of disturbance and other times nothing at all. I have been escaping the problem for several years in hope for it to be sorted out once I need it. Well it hadn’t…

I bought a new S-Video to Scart cable today and attached it to my (old) TV. The image came (of course) up in black and white. Luckily there are an easy fix for it! Just attach a tiny conductor to short circuit some connectors and you are fine. If you like to do it the hard way there are the solder-your-connector solution as well. There are even instructions for S-Video in!

Happy hacking!

This new video features stunts performed by Mini RC planes and helicopters.

Information

1. Trädgårdsföreningen, Gothenburg, Sweden 2006
   Starring: Max and Ola
   Time: 0-1:123
2. Stampen Churchyard, Gothenburg Sweden 2006
   Time: 1:23-1:30
3. Trädgårns uteservering, Gothenburg, Sweden 2006
   Starring: Max and Ola
   Time: 1:30-3:18
4. Tollare Folkhögskola, Saltsjö Boo, Sweden 2007
   Starring: Johan and Ola
   Time: 3:18-3:50
5. Trädgårns uteservering, Gothenburg, Sweden 2006
   Starring: Max
   Time: 3:50-4:26
6. Tollareängen, Saltsjö Boo, Sweden 2007
   Starring: Adam
   Time: 4:27-4:52
7. Trädgårdsvägen, Saltsjö Boo, Sweden 2007
   Starring: Simon and Adam
   Time: 4:52-5:37

See this Google Map for all locations pinned down.

Music

• You Are My Everything - Open Space
• Garmisch Partenkirchen - Black Paint

Both songs available at gojukebox.net

Starring

• Max Persson
• Ola Lindberg (me)
• Adam Lindberg
• Simon Larsson
• Johan Wallin

This video (as well as the audio) is licensed under the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license.

Enjoy!

Today I tried to embed a custom Google Map to my blog and ended up with a usable Wordpress editor! It didn’t even allow me to remove the iFrame -code.

Here is how I broke it:

1. Created a custom Google Maps -map
2. Copied the embed-map-html code (an iFrame) to the Code field in WP
3. Saved the post as a draft
4. Loaded my and when I saved the blog post as a draft and discovered that I couldn’t edit the post any more

To recover from this it would have been possible to discard the draft but since I had put some time in editing I didn’t want to do that. Instead I fired up my MySQL editor and tried to locate the html text in the database for manual removal. All of a sudden it struck me. The easy solution! The good solution! I disabled JavaScript in Firefox, loaded the web page and viola! I got the simple Wordpress text editor back and could remove the iFrame-code from Google Maps.

I have now attached a post-it with the text “Keep It Simple Stupid” on my monitor (again). Simon has got one as well.