Ugh. This makes me feel a bit creepy. I was idly perusing my web server’s access logs and discovered that every few days a different server starts a probe on my server. Looking for shopping carts, blogs, database admin tools, anything. Yuck.
Monthly Archive for May, 2008
This is one of my favourite set of beads. Transparent amethyst core, encased, and then scrolled with a hand-pulled Moretti violet. There are three medium nuggets (square beads) measuring 18 x 18 mm, and four round beads. The scrollwork has a slight metallic sheen to it, which amazingly can actually be seen in this photograph.
Here is a set of my Golden Green beads. This set has five medium (18 mm) straight-sided lentils (sprees), and two small (15 mm) sprees.
Over the last few days my IP address has been changed. Most of the domain names that I have registered (and there are a few of them) seem to work again, but I had problems yesterday with the sub-domain name that I have been using to test my website dev.icedmoments.com. After some cursing, I realised that I could add another sub-domain name, test.icedmoments.com, and then I could continue working.
Well, that was all well and good, until I realised that I could no longer access my blog. Regardless of the fact that the blog was physically located at the new sub-domain, actually accessing it was problematic because the blog’s url (within wordpress) was set to the old sub-domain. So how can you change the url, when you can’t get into wordpress?
Thinking cap on. Oh, okay, I figured that I could change the values in the database but changing a single url (siteurl) didn’t seem to help. More grumbling and puzzling around until I came across this post describing which database values need changing. Taking the advice of one of the comments this is what I did:
- Using phpMyAdmin, select the wordpress database and Export it to a text file.
- Use a text editor, find and replace all occurrences of old-domain-name with new-domain-name. Save the file.
- Back in phpMyAdmin, import the modified file:
- select the database
- click on the “SQL” button
- click on the “Choose file” button and select the file
- click on “Go”
Phew! blog is back…
Here is a bead set that I made a while ago, Earth and sky.
Thanks to Lara Lutrick for posting the colour combination: light sky blue and red roof tile. Yum!
Well, after being totally obsessed by making leaves, it was almost as if I’d forgotten how to make beads. But then, the light dawned, and I realised that I can also attach my lampwork beads to chain maille as well. Here is the first attempt, woven from handmade sterling silver rings (1.0 mm). The weave is Full Persian.
A little while ago I discovered a tutorial on LampworkEtc (LE), by Bobby, about making off-mandrel leaves (thanks Bobby!). That started me on an interesting quest. After making a whole bunch of leaves I needed to do something with them. So, again, thanks to Bobby’s example, I decided to put my (somewhat limited) metalworking skills to use and to make a simple bracelet.
Well, that simple bracelet, which I never actually finished, led me to discover chain maille (there are various spellings, I’ll use this one). Here is the first chain maille bracelet that I made. I wound the brass wire to make rings, cut the rings and wove them. The weave is european 4-in-1, with rather large rings. The bracelet is a little showy for my tastes, but I’ve gotten good responses from other people. One day I’ll get around to doing something similar in sterling.
This gives you an idea of how it hangs on your wrist. It’s a wonderfully noisy bracelet. And strangely the glass leaves feel “soft”, not at all hard, as you’d expect.
This purple one made from 1.0 mm (18 gauge) sterling silver rings is woven in a Wiggly Chain. I don’t know another name for the weave, or indeed if it’s a true chain maille weave, but that’s what Glen Waszek calls it in Making Silver Chains. I have used two leaves as a counterweight near the clasp. I have noticed quite a lot of bracelets for sale on the net which don’t have a counterweight. I often wonder if those bracelets then travel around the wrist so that the clasp rides to the “top”, which would be a real pity.
This blue one uses 1.0 mm sterling silver rings, with a Byzantine weave. The rings are too large, so the weave looks a bit messy…a work-in-progress.
And the last two are fun to wear together:
Well, I gotta admit that I feel a bit silly having a blog. Sorta like talking to yourself. Anyway, to calm my nerves, here’s a little post about the blog software that I am using: WordPress, of course, and the theme is unwakeable by Tyler Longren.
I have made some minor changes to the colour scheme. A rather clunky method to work out what to change:
- Load the wordpress page in your browser, view the source and hunt for the tag that you want to change.
- Search wp-content/themes/unwakeable/css/core.css.php for that tag. Copy the tag to the clipboard.
- Edit wp-content/themes/unwakeable/style.ccs. Paste the copied text. Modify. Save. Test
Okay, finally got organised enough to install WordPress, so I can finally start blogging. So if you have stumbled across this, then Welcome to the Iced Moments blog! (sl-iced moments, get it?)
I’ll be keeping an intermittent blog about glass, jewellery and paper. And probably the odd geeky post about computers and software development.
