The secret of editing the left navigation bar in Media wiki

Posted on February 5th, 2008 by thiswayup.
Categories: justgeek, photography, productivity.

I been trying to figure out how to edit the left navigation bar on my own media wiki which I use for documentation for my thoughts (usually for shortcuts and quotes). I had another go through google and found this post with a comment that unraveled the secret to editing the left navigation bar! Basically you put into any page:


[[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]


THATS IT!!!!! All this pain trying to go through files and it was in a wiki tag. Sigh.
And as soon as you click on it, it displays the properties of the left bar to edit to your hearts content!

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My fave photos…

Posted on September 18th, 2007 by thiswayup.
Categories: cool stuff, Flickr, Hong Kong, photography.

Bit lacking on what to blog about today. So I decided to pick some random photos from Flickr.

Hong Kong temple
When I was on a biz trip in Hong Kong, I stumbled upon a couple of temples in Central, one of which is the following of Man Mo Temple.

Another Hong Kong Temple
Another one was the Tin hau temple, dedicated to the Goddess of the Sea.

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Share and share alike – Creative commons on Flickr

Posted on September 9th, 2007 by thiswayup.
Categories: cool stuff, Flickr, howto, photography.

I was sitting in the pub with a fellow geeky friend, Dave Knipik, and he was explaining how he would like to use a photo of mine on Flickr in a Londonist blog which I was delighted! I never had a photo used in some piece of work before, it was all very exciting. We then went onto a discussion of public usage of photos online which then stumbled upon the Creative Commons license. Essentially it is a set of licenses with various levels of restrictions that a person may choose to place on their work to protect it.

There are many licnese are available and I chose to have:

Attribution - All works need to have credit back to me, so all photos taken from my Flickr gallery needs to have a link back with some love/respect thrown in

NonCommercial - No you can;t make money off me....except if you pay me!

NoDerivs - No work can be derived from photo, so no hacking it apart

On Flickr you can access this by:
- You->Your Account
- Privacy & Permissions tab
- Clikc on "edit" of What license will your photos have

Dave also kindly pointed out that there were many people out there who hunt for stuff under the creative commons license. So if you fancy having more of your Flickr stuff in the world of work. Go for it!

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