In a trifecta of bad luck, I’ve spent the weekend mangling things. My idea for Stacey’s competition came out relatively well, but as usual I’ve stuffed up in the process. (I can’t give away much, but it was a minor screw up). Taking photos was worse though, in that I’ve broken my fluoro light that I use for shadow puppets. It still works, but the glass of the tube has broken and there is something rattling around in it (not the glass, since it’s a small break, more like a chip), so it’s making me think that it’s probably not safe to work with anymore. And finally… well, the idea didn’t turn out as well as I’d hoped. It’s just… missing something…

Next, I’ve spent a number of hours trying to find some way of combining two RSS feeds together (SOP and PIM into one so people who are currently getting the PIM feed don’t miss out when the content is split off into two places), but that apparently is easier than it sounds. There’s a number of services out there that do it - unfortunately none of them Feedburner, which is what I use for my feed - but none of them seem to update correctly. Or at all.

And finally, Tuesday being the public launch of the UNIMA Australia site, I’ve had to spend some time redoing one whole page, due to a hackable code. I’ve known about the security flaws for a while now, but had hoped that a fix would come through by now. It hasn’t, and probably won’t. But as usual with all things Joomla, nothing’s that easy. Finding a new plugin to replace the old is like hoping for a one-legged tripod. Doesn’t really exist. I’ve finally tracked down something that works, but again, nothing is that simple. It doesn’t work out of the box, which seems typical of Joomla crap. Sigh… I’ll be fiddling around with this stuff all day too, because the committee meeting for UNIMA that was supposed to happen last week was moved to… yep, Tuesday. I’m hoping to push through as much of the last-minute edits as possible, with the idea to press the ‘launch’ button Monday night/early morning of Tues.

I’d love it if things could work properly for once. That’d be nice. (I get the feeling I spend a lot of time complaining on this blog )