I was planning to pop out at some point today to do some shopping, but as it was such a miserably grey day, I decided that the shopping could wait, and I’d spend some more time on the website changes I’ve been talking about.

I identified all[1] the posts with YouTube videos in, and I’ve edited them all to use the new native embedding method. Well, except for the ones that have been removed from YouTube for the usual legal reasons, and for which I couldn’t find a substitute. So that bit’s done.

Having finished that, I went back to the picture posts. My MySQL query told me that 300 posts still had the magic letters wpg2 in them, and had to be edited. Now some will be posts that just mention the WPG2 plugin[2], but most will be either posts with one or two pictures in, or links to full albums. So there’s lots of work there. But I was obviously in the right mood for this kind of thing, as I managed to get through the first 50 of those posts today.

Still lots to do, but I’ll get there…

[1] Probably
[2] As this one now does

Down again today, good stuff.

Your picture of the day is one of the lions at Newcastle’s Chinese Arch:

Lion

I’ve mentioned the Apple iPad before, but as the US release date approaches, more useful details are emerging. Still nothing as useful as an actual UK release date or anything you’d actually need to know like UK prices, of course, but Apple have released a series of videos demonstrating the basic iPad apps:

iPad Guided Tours

These suggest several things to me:

1. The user interface looks like it will actually work very well. Not quite the same as a scaled-up iPhone or iPod Touch, but building on that interface and taking advantage of the much larger screen
2. I’m not sure about how you’re supposed to hold it. Watching movies while having to hold the screen at a comfortable angle seems a bit awkward.
3. The book reading application looks very nifty

I can see I’m going to have to play with one when they eventually appear over here. Late April is apparently still the plan…