A few more videos, this time from Sriracha Tiger Zoo, near Pattaya, Thailand.
These were taken on my digital camera on Day Five of last month’s trip to Thailand. Not the best quality, but some fun stuff.
Elephants playing basketball
Elephant walking tightrope (from the worst seat in the house, incidentally)
Elephant on hind legs (this is just scary)
Elephants dancing
Elephants spinning hoops
Tigers in the cage
Tigers on show
I’ve left my job, and I’ve given one month’s notice to my landlord of the end of my tenancy in this wonderful house.
I’m going to be putting just about all of my posessions on eBay over the next few days, saying goodbyes, spending a week in Ireland, and then I’m flying to Thailand in about a month’s time – for rather longer than my customary annual two weeks.
Since my first trip, just over two years ago, I’ve wanted to do this. Time and time again, I have found reasons not to go. I realised on this year’s trip that all the farangs I have met in Bangkok have one thing in common – they did what they wanted to do, and didn’t let anything stop them.
There will always be reasons against doing anything. I’ve decided to look for the reasons for. I think I’ve found more than enough.
First up, above is my niece, Chloe, looking rather chuffed with herself.
In other news, there is still a shroud of secrecy over certain developments which I can’t yet mention, but it will soon be lifted. Big news coming soon posted here!
And, on a personally tragic note, the time has come to sell my vintage IBM Model M keyboard. Made in 1986, it’s a perfect example of the greatest keyboard (and a considerably useful LART) ever made, and in perfect working order. Sadly if you don’t want to collect it from Milton Keynes, you’re going to have to pay some rather exorbitant postage I’m afraid – these things may as well be made of lead…
Buy my keyboard [Sold!].
[Edit: The latest version of this plugin can be found here.]
Here’s the latest version of my Ma.gnolia plugin for WordPress. It allows you to publish your latest Ma.gnolia links in your WordPress sidebar (or anywhere else you want to call it from).
WordPress’s built-in RSS handlers didn’t seem to like Ma.gnolia’s feeds, so I’ve used PHP5’s built-in DOM XML functions. Obviously this means that you will need version 5 of PHP on your server. If this isn’t an option, feel free to use my original JavaScript plugin, still available here.
The syntax remains the same as the previous version, with the exception that the byline is no longer an option.
<?php magnolia(USERNAME[, NUMBER_OF_STORIES); ?>
eg. to show my feeds with the default options, I simply use:
<?php magnolia('barryprice'); ?>
To show 23 of my feeds, I’d use this instead:
<?php magnolia('barryprice', 23); ?>
Dead simple.
Diffs to automate usage of this plugin with K2 will be up shortly.
Okay, I risk incurring the wrath of a few people here I think. Viewing this entry on my site, I can see a video I shot with my digital camera on last year’s trip to Thailand, but peoples aggregators might get nastily broken with this if they’re seeing the RSS feed.
I think that the point is, my photos are all (mostly) online, and it’s time to get my videos on there. A few wildlife videos from Sriracha Tiger Zoo will be next…