Gallery migration done, party done, all is right with the world

I finished migrating my image gallery this afternoon. It wasn’t easy – it kept getting hung up at the same pictures. Upgrading from 1.4.4 to 1.5.1 and deleting the aborted albums out of the G2 album area helped, but some pictures just refused to migrate for some reason, including one whole album. In each case I had to copy the files to /tmp, delete the problematic ones, migrate the album, and import the picture from /tmp. I guess there were about 25 pictures I had to do that way. Not bad out of 2500+, I guess, but it was a pain. But the gallery looks a lot better now.

This afternoon/evening was our annual Christmas Carolling Party. I’m sure Vicki will blog about it in huge detail, but it was a rousing success. One of the things I like best about the party is that we invite people from church, people from work, and people from the neighbourhood, and I keep looking around to make sure that they’re not breaking up into homogeneous groups. Especially this year when we’re in a new neighbourhood. And it worked well. I think everybody got along with each other.

I love this house, and I love this neighbourhood.

Migrating image gallery

I’m in the process of migrating my image galleries from Gallery 1.4.4 to Gallery 2.0.2. Some of the 1.x albums aren’t moving properly, so there will be a slight delay while some of your pictures won’t be available. This includes the “Piper Pictures”, the pictures posted by the members of the Piper chat mailing list. In the mean time, the ones that aren’t available in http://xcski.com/gallery/[whatever] will be at http://xcski.com/g1/[whatever].

Sorry for the inconvenience.

One Six Right

I got my DVD yesterday of the movie One Six Right. One Six Right is simply the best movie about flying ever made. I think every pilot, everybody curious about flying, and everybody who lives in the noise footprint of an airport should watch this movie. The guy who started the project was originally going to make a simple history of Van Nuys Airport (VNY), but ended up realizing that all these people who were being interviewed were talking more about why they love to fly, what flying means to them and also what it means to the community. And it’s interspersed with some of the best flying sequences I’ve ever seen.

And the people interviewed! People that non-pilots would recognize like Sidney Pollack and Lorenzo Lamas and Paul Moyer. People that pilots around the world would recognize (especially if they read Flying Magazine) like Barry Schiff and Clay Lacy. Old guys talking about meeting Charles Lindburgh when he visited the airport, or about flying in the war. Women talking about flying air ambulances for the local children’s hospital or for a new crew, or ferrying fighter and bombers during the war.

Everybody should see this movie.

Wiki!

While I liked Michael Greb’s suggestion of trac, it seemed like an awful lot of work to set up, since I don’t currently use subversion and I have no idea how to set that up. So I went for an easier solution and installed TWiki. It seemed easy enough, except for the fact that it’s got two “Webs” devoted mostly to settings, tutorials and the like, Main and TWiki. It would make more sense to me if all that stuff was in one place and the main Web was free for you to edit as the main purpose of the site.

Maybe if I’d seen Jen’s comment earlier I would have tried DokuWiki instead. It seems to compare favourably if you look on WikiMatrix.

So anyway, the NavData Wiki is now set up here. So far one person has already found it and started to contribute, much to my surprise because it hadn’t been announced yet.