Daily Archives: Wednesday, 11th April 2007
Angel of the North – new pictures
In a radical break with tradition, I’ve sorted out today’s pictures of the Angel of the North already. I’ve still got some from Saltwell Park to do, not to mention Monday’s and last week’s, but I felt inspired to do these first, so here they are. Click the image to see the album.
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Monday’s Map
Well, now I’m in the Google Map mood, here’s the riverside walk I took on Monday:
You can see all the bridges, and Dunston Staithes are at the bottom left of the satellite image.
Google Maps Re-revisited
Back in December, I mentioned that I had a new, improved plugin for adding Google Maps to my posts. And very nice it is, too. However, it seems that I forgot to update the old posts that had maps inserted by other means, so anyone looking at those posts would have seen a link rather than an embedded map. 
I noticed this when I referred back last year’s visit to the Angel of the North, and promptly changed the link in that post to make the map appear. Which sort of worked, in that the link was replaced by a grey rectangle of the right size with Googlish markings, but there was a distinct lack of an actual map, and the expected satellite image was altogether absent. Hmmmmmm. So, I had a look through the comments on the plugin author’s site, and found that someone had run into the same problem. Theirs was due to an incompatibility with the CSS in a particular WordPress theme, and they helpfully posted a link to the solution. Now my layout is something of a Frankentheme, with bits borrowed from a variety of sources, and a lot of changes that only I can take the blame for, so I had a look in my CSS, and sure enough, at some point I had added the offending code. So, I changed
max-width: 100%;
to
max-width: none;then reloaded the page, and woo hoo, my map was back. I then fixed as many old posts that had broken maps as I could find.
At some point, I’m going to have to go through my CSS and tidy it up. I’m sure there’s a lot of redundant bits in there…
Wednesday Walk
Well, I seem to have recovered from the after effects of Monday’s walk. When I got up this morning, I was pleased to find that I could actually walk without feeling like my legs were about to lock up completely, which is a significant improvement on yesterday. So I decided to make an effort and get out of the house moderately early.
I started with a stroll through Saltwell Park, where I took some pictures of the birds on the lake, before carrying on to the Angel of the North. The last time I went there, the light wasn’t good at all, but today was a lot better, and I think I’ve got some better images this time, which I’ll put on show once I’ve sorted them out[1]. Once I’d taken all the pictures I wanted, I walked back home, once again passing through the park.
I was thinking of going for another walk, but I don’t think I’ll push it. I’d like to be able to move tomorrow…
[1] And all the others from the last week or so…
