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Richard Perry
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Milestones,
Epic Quest
So recently (ok a month ago, but who’s counting), I completed my thirtieth rotation around the sun and I thought I should write something to recognise the occasion. However, life got in the way and it’s now a couple of weeks down the line and I’m only just sitting down to write. It seems like a fairly appropriate time to write up an update on my Epic Quest, so here it is… Completed Quests Travel Climb the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France - 05/04/2013 Visit the Louvre in France - 06/04/2013 Visit Notre Dame Cathedral in France - 05/04/2013 Active Do 10 one-arm push ups with each arm (May 2014) Learn how to do a frontflip & a backflip (Backflip 26/04/2013, Frontflip 10/01/2014) (video to...
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Richard Perry
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Technology,
Jekyll
This is going to be my last post on my Migration from WordPress to Jekyll (I promise ). This week I am going to share with you some of the changes I’ve made, and plugins I’ve adapted to get everything running the way it was (ish) in WordPress. I’ve had to make a few changes to the site to suit the new system as well, but nothing major. Tags You may have noticed (but probably not really, that’s kind of the point) that there are no longer any tags listed at the bottom of each post. Tags are a standard part of WordPress that I embraced for no other reason than ‘they were there’. Their purpose was to allow navigation between posts of similar topics...
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Richard Perry
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Technology,
Jekyll
Update 15 June 2023 The Flickr Image and Flickr Photoset tags now seem to result in build errors so I have removed them from all posts and replaced with the previously generated HTML. I may try to make this cleaner at some point in the future, but no plans at the moment! The next step in the migration to Jekyll was to export my existing blog posts from WordPress and then convert them into Markdown format so they can be used in the new blog. There are a number of different options for doing this, including Jekyll’s own migration option Jekyll Import Bearing in mind the purpose of the move was purely academic there was no need to rush this step so I tried a...
So recently (ok a month ago, but who’s counting), I completed my thirtieth rotation around the sun and I thought I should write something to recognise the occasion. However, life got in the way and it’s now a couple of weeks down the line and I’m only just sitting down to write. It seems like a fairly appropriate time to write up an update on my Epic Quest, so here it is… Completed Quests Travel Climb the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France - 05/04/2013 Visit the Louvre in France - 06/04/2013 Visit Notre Dame Cathedral in France - 05/04/2013 Active Do 10 one-arm push ups with each arm (May 2014) Learn how to do a frontflip & a backflip (Backflip 26/04/2013, Frontflip 10/01/2014) (video to...
This is going to be my last post on my Migration from WordPress to Jekyll (I promise 
). This week I am going to share with you some of the changes I’ve made, and plugins I’ve adapted to get everything running the way it was (ish) in WordPress. I’ve had to make a few changes to the site to suit the new system as well, but nothing major. Tags You may have noticed (but probably not really, that’s kind of the point) that there are no longer any tags listed at the bottom of each post. Tags are a standard part of WordPress that I embraced for no other reason than ‘they were there’. Their purpose was to allow navigation between posts of similar topics...