Welcome to JCR Developments

This is my new (slowly growing) drupal powered site....

Any new stuff I add should get added to this front page and I will try and layout the menus with some sort of logic. I am still getting to grips with the functionality of drupal and its many many different ways of achieveing the same thing.

The menalto gallery 2 embeds nicely though... still needs some tweaking to make it nice and I can't get the URL rewrite to work properly... If I enable it, then the gallery doesn't work basically. So for now, the nav menu works well, but you just get iffy URLs in the gallery... meh.

Backing Up My Life With Amazon Web Services

Amazon's Simple Storage System or S3 for short, is what I have decided to use from now on (for now until I discover yet something else) to backup my life.

Submitted by Jon Reynolds on 23 August, 2010 - 19:35
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BMW Log - 184,704 Miles

Still handling crap, suspect big bushes on control arms as they are the cheap ones. But could still be something else.

Oil and filter change.
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Upgrade Drupal Core and Restore from Mysql Backup

For too long the admin pages in my http://drupal.org site have been bugging me to upgrade from 6.12 core to the latest, which recently for to 6.19. I have been putting it off after reading the upgrade.txt which describes how to do it as it sounding a little lengthy and I just never had the time to do it.

I tried once but it didn't work. I went 'more or less' through the process described in upgrade.txt, which accompanies the download, but after doing it the admin pages still said it was out of date, as if I hadn't done anything, which was odd as I had deleted almost everything and replaced it with the new version.

Submitted by Jon Reynolds on 20 August, 2010 - 01:10

Seesmic Desktop on Ubuntu

I have been using Seesmic (#seesmic @seesmic) on my Android phone (HTC Desire) for a while now and must say I like it a lot. Just works nice and looks good. Plus support for Facebook is coming soon and I like the 'all-in-one' type of approach.

Submitted by Jon Reynolds on 7 August, 2010 - 09:14
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Predators

I went to see #Predators yesterday and I am in two minds as to what I think about it. I came out feeling a little, unimpressed, but maybe I am being unfair. I think, I could argue both ways about this film. I am a huge fan of Predator and I think this is part of the problem, as with many films these days that are either based on or remakes of classic films.

Submitted by Jon Reynolds on 15 July, 2010 - 20:54

My Simple Ubuntu Home Server

I wanted to set up a simple home server properly for a long time. Just something that would serve up my media files and give me somewhere to permanently set up some samba shares where any computer can access and store data. I also wanted to continue to be able to backup my (this) website at home. This I was doing using a simple NAS drive connected to my router. I could just FTP into it from the web server and mirror the server as a backup.

Submitted by Jon Reynolds on 11 July, 2010 - 19:42
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HTC Desire

After surviving for a few months with an old Motorola V70e, I am back in the world of 3G and smartphones. My 1 year old ended the life of the screen on my HTC Touch HD just a few months before I was due an upgrade. Gotta love kids...

Submitted by Jon Reynolds on 25 June, 2010 - 19:29
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BMW Log - 174,255 miles MOT

Passed MOT with no failures!

Just a few cautions about cracked high rear brake light, and some worn gaiters on control arms (bloody things), but not enough to fail. So pleased with that.

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BMW Log - More Handling

The car is currently handling quite poorly again. I have a lot of play in the steering and it feels, unfortunately, like the control arm bushes at the front are wearing ouot again.

Control arms - I think I have now learnt that the cheapest option is not always the best option. I have read people saying that you should use OEM quality parts for the control arms alse you will end up changing them much sooner than expected. This seems to be the case as I have fitted the low cost option twice now since the new year (only four months ago!) and am in need of replacements already.

Submitted by Jon Reynolds on 14 April, 2010 - 20:13
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