Solar Whelk

Moving

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:21:38 +0100

Dollar crash and other things mean that my hosting expenses are becoming too great to continue to run a site using Joomla (alternative non-crap webhosts that offer Mysql databases, let alone ssh, are thin on the ground and not any cheaper). So I'm going to convert the site to a Wordpress or Blogger site and host there for many less monies, point domain at that site. It's a shame because I love Joomla but I just can't afford to pay for the hosting features I require to really manage the site at ...

Follow me!

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:44:01 +0100

I've got feeds coming out of my ears; ...

My hobby: harnessing spammers for love and peace

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:19:14 +0100

Recently I was asked to modify a custom live chat program so that profanity and common spam phrases were censored.

I decided to go a step beyond that, and harness the most common spam-text for the good of all humanity.

Peanut chicken masala curry

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:23:11 +0100

Chicken Curry tonight by Wickenden at Flickr I like this title, because not only does it accurately describe the key ingredients of this meal, it also covers some of my favourite savoury�? ingredients. That is - peanuts, curry spices, and of course chicken - the blank slate of the taste artist (if it tastes like chicken, you're not trying hard enough). I threw this together for a group lunch last June after several impassioned emails and phone calls. All two of you seemed to really want t ...

Updates from Solar Whelk

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:37:45 +0100

Subscribing to Solar Whelk means you'll be sent any new articles added to the site via email, or syndicated to you via RSS. RSS If you don't know what RSS actually is, have a look at this info from Google on RSS feeds. Email subscribers No selling your emails address to spammers here. Not even if the spammers have ice-cream. Even... even if it is banana-flavoured ice-cream. You will have an "unsubscribe" option on every email, so you can always change your mind later. ...

Vintage 50s hair modelling

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:08:56 +0100

Recently I was a hair model for a Wildilocks vintage hair styling training session. Glossy! Check out the entire photo set at Flickr. You can learn all about what Victory Rolls are - and who doesn't want to know that? Infidels, that's who. ...

New RSS feeds and Wikidot

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:16:13 +0100

New RSS feeds are up. The old ones will continue to work, but they will only pull a few articles from the website, not all new material. If you navigate to the RSS menu link in the top menu, you can choose to subscribe to all content on this site, or just my writing, or just the news. As more content is added to the site, more category-specific links will be added. Wikidot trial In other news, I am trying out the free wiki hosting service, Wikidot. My first wiki there is called She Who Runs F ...

RSS feed URLs changing shortly

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:58:52 +0100

The title pretty much says it all.

If you have subscribed to this website's dafault RSS feed, you may find that you miss out on a lot of new articles in future. I am going to manage the feeds through Feedburner, which means the feed is hosted by them.

I'll be posting here this evening with the new feed URL once they have gone live.

Yearbook yourself

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:54:58 +0100

Thanks to a little viral marketing website, I now know what I would look like if I graduated in 1970;

You really can get anything on the internet

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:19:45 +0100

While indulging in the egotistical art of Googling my own website, I discovered something unusual. In the past, Googling "Solar Whelk" has only ever brought up links to this site and discussions about it.There's a new kid on the block, now. From Made in China; Solar Whelk Spot Light 1. Solar Panel: Mono(multi) crystalline solar panel 2. Size: 31.5X17.0X14.0CM 3. Solar Battery: Rechargeable Ni-MH Battery 1.2V/600mAH 4. Light Source: Super bright LED 1 PC 5. Light Color: White or Color 6. Ma ...

What is Solar Whelk?

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:53:11 +0100

The dark lair of online project developer and bellydancer, Wendy White. Wendy is also the evil mind behind Cyberskirt. What's with the name? It's a terribly obscure Douglas Adams reference. How is Solar Whelk made? Solar Whelk runs on the open source Content Management System, Joomla.The design is a modified version of the Vintage layout from Joomla Shack. Is that picture a real photo? Not exactly - it was created using a photo of me at Yearbook Yourself - gotta love the flip hairstyle. ...

Is that a knee-jerk reaction or are you just happy to see me?

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:01:02 +0100

This article was originally written as a guest post at Mighty God King. Hope you like the new curtains, MGK readers. This is Wendy White, here to balance the gender equation. Math is hard, tee-hee! Ahem. I promise to show all my working. ...

Solar Whelk development

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:25:27 +0100

Okay - so I've owned this domain for a year. I did actually build a website, but then due to some issues with the host of the site running away to the Bahamas... it was down a while.

Since then, I've just been too busy to re-instate it. Problem with being a web developer is; when you get home, you're all out of web developing juice.