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WP Book

An interesting application/plugin for WordPress is WPBook. This plugin installs on you blog allows your post to be visible on a Facebook page.  It only works on self hosted WordPress installs.

The installation is, from my experience of WordPress plugins, a little quirky. This is primarily because the WPBook requires that you create a Facebook application. This sort of thing is a little daunting for someone like me with no programming experience. However it is really more about creating the application within the developers section of Facebook, this creates an API key and another password or  key called a secret. You then enter theses details in the plugin section of your blog. You need to give your application a unique name so that it has a “canvas” name this is Facebook jargon for where they host their application.  So after a few trials and errors  I was able to create an application that now displays my deep and meaningful post on my Facebook page.

The guy who created it John Eckman can be found here http://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/01/19/wpbook-wordpress-facebook-plugin-goes-10

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Travelling Again

We are travelling again this time it’s 5 weeks in Europe. Starting with a 2 week cruise leaving from Dover in England. There are quite a few ports of call Dublin and then Oban in Scotland. The ship then sets sail for Iceland. We are landing in four ports Sigurdsfjordur, Akuyeri, Grundursfjordur and Reykjavik. The final two ports are Belfast and Liverpool before we return to Dover.

Stage two is four days in the U.K. a drive down to Looe and then up to London. We then head to Lisbon to start a 10 day river cruise through Porto and into Spain to the city of Salamanca.

A quick flight to London and then off to Malta for 5 days. The last hurrah is back to London and a flight home via Doha.

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Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary ArmyBlackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

 

This is Jeremy Schahill’s probe in Blackwater and organisation that is it seems an army for hire. I’m sure that those that support this kind of endeavour will think this is a biased account of their activities. Apparently, Blackwater declined to put their side of the story. The author has relied of official documents and former employees some of whom are disgruntled.  

That aside the book has an impressive list of references for each chapter so I can only assume that Scahill has done his research  Continue reading “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army”