McAWilliams Photoblog

This is the last in my pictures from work, the others really would not interest you trust me, part and parcel of my job involves putting music on adverts, we get supplied what is called “Production Music” which is music specifically composed for adverts, programmes etc etc. Years ago this sort of music was awful but nowadays the production that goes into the music is a hell of a lot better. 

The only problem is the amount of music out there it needs a hell of a lot of storage as you can see from the racks we have holding all the cd’s.

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So no posts over the weekend what the hell happened there, well the website took me out on the piss to celebrate its 3rd birthday on Saturday, and yesterday was spent recovering, only kidding but to be honest do any other bloggers find their traffic goes to nothing over the weekends, in the past I have found that some really good images miss out because they may have been posted on a Saturday or Sunday, is there any point posting these 2 days, let me know. 

Anyhow this image is another one taken in work for my companies website, but I don’t know if it will make the cut, anyhow I own the rights, it was my camera and my eye etc. something very portholey about it but it caught my attention, hope you feel the same

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On my second last in Sweden we went to the gondolen bar in the centre of town, and on my way there I came across this unusual scene of a glove left on the handlebar of a parked bike, I dont know if this was intentional by the owner (I doubt it) or whether it had been left there by someone who found it on the road.

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We stopped by a cafe in the Heron Centre in Stockholm me with my 50mm lens and Dolly with her 2 lens for a camera she has not yet got, and these lights caught my eye.

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What a weird picture huh, yep its a badge I will wear with pride forever more, given to me by the Irish Blogging Guru that is Damien Mulley. Damien Has a fluffly Link section on his blog linking to sites he feels deserve a link for something they may have written etc, McAWilliams got a fluffy link a while ago thus enabling me to ask Damien for a badge, I dont know how many were made but I know he aint got none left and they went quick maybe 25 possibly 50 so I feel for the first time in 2008 quite lucky.

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Hello and welcome to McAWilliams.com the new improved version, but more about that later.

This photograph was taken up on the new bridge which connects Bray with Enniskerry, which opened last week. I am getting home at 7pm ish so I decided to try a traffic zooming by type shot, I think this worked quite well, anyhow onto the main story.

As you may well know, Movabletype 4 proved to be a big headache for me, so much so that I decided to change platform all together and move to Wordpress. I thought it would be easy enough, how mistaken I was the install etc was fantastic and to be fair to the Wordpress programmers they aint lied about the fact it is quite easy. My problem was how I used Moveabletype over the years.

I coded all the templates in Movabletype myself and as such used the default entry page in a strange way, I had also created custom entry fields using a plugin for the likes of meta keywords and descriptions etc, these fields unfortunately did not transfer to the database I had to create for Wordpress, and in the mayhem I lost all the details I had spent years entering.

So with Wordpress I had to start from scratch all that remained from the old site were the entry details and comments but all pictures keywords descriptions for 411 entries had to be re-entered from scratch, hence the delay.

I am using a theme for now but will be modifying this to get some originality back into McAWilliams.com, and what do I think of Wordpress, well as I told Caitriona tonight I aint looking back.

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Remember these?

For the younger viewer of this page these are called cassettes.

Today I had the strangest request to transfer 1 advert onto 70 of these little guys. God unwrapping 70 of these was a pain then having to duplicate 70 of them was not much better, but oh how it brought back some memories of how bad these things actually are.

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