The Lost Pilot on The Reading

— Posted inLiterature — 3 min read

Originally posted to mimismum.wordpress.com

Just listened to the last episode of “The Lost Pilot” the latest of “The Reading” collection on Radio New Zealand National Nine to Noon show. “The Lost Pilot” is the book by NZ author Jeffrey Paparoa Holman. The Radio NZ site description says, ‘A journey of discovery and reconciliation, when Jeffrey Holman seeks out the families of six kamikaze who died attacking his father’s ship in 1945.’

The audio for the reading (by Nigel Collins) will be available for next two weeks, until midnight of 14 March NZDST (11.oo GMT). It is excellent. Please have a listen.

I also intend to read the book. The library has some copies. But I think I will try to buy a copy. Listening to The Reading audio made me cry more than once. (You all know I’m a bit of a cry-baby, right?) I don’t want to mark a library copy with my tears.

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album12119192

— Posted inPersonal, Photography — 1 min read

I think most of the visitors from my MyOpera pack know I have an album called “I Am No Photographer” with the popular photography group Shoot and Tell.

I’m pleased to announce I have created yet another blog (gasp!) to keep my favourite photo stories from “I Am No Photographer”. This new photo blog is also titled “I Am No Photographer” and is found at album12119192.wordpress.com

Enjoy

:coffee:

 

Update (28 Feb): I have now created “The making of” page to explain how I prepared each post. Feedback welcome.

Originally posted to mimismum.wordpress.com

mimi_s_mum no more

— Posted inPersonal — 3 min read

After months of absence, I finally decided today is a good day to make a move. Tried to log in at My Opera (probably for the one last time) and was confronted by the “Change username” page. After all years of resisting, I had to change my MyOpera username from mimi_s_mum to mimi-s-mum, so that I could export and save the blog. Didn’t care much about my posts but the comments from my friends were important for me.

Exporting went otherwise smoothly and I have imported it into the “legacy” blog I created separately. I knew all the links would be dead, so posts (136 of them!!) would have no pictures. But seeing my own comments appear as by “mimi-s-mum” rather than “mimi_s_mum” makes me rather sad. The “legacy” blog is supposed to be invite-only but somehow the posts are publicly visible. :rolleyes:

PS: I’m still mimi_s_mum on Twitter. So a certain level of normality is retained.

:coffee:

PPS: Decided there’s no point keeping the “legacy” invite-only. If you really want to see it with no picture and all, it’s at http://hardlifelegacy.wordpress.com/

:more coffee:

PPPS: Now I realise I needed to fix the dead links before exporting to get the pictures at least in the posts. Will have to re-export and re-import. That’s why my life is hard …

Update: Finished fixing deadlinks on MyOpera end. But the xml file cannot be generated so soon after the first one. Apparently have to wait at least 24 hours. Bugger!  Meanwhile I’ve deleted the first import on WP legacy side. Being me is sooo hard!

Update 2: Re-exporting from MyOpera successful at second attempt. Also emptied “Trash” for the legacy blog to rid of the broken no-picture posts, which took several attempts and error messages. Still the objective achieved. Feeling a little better. (I should put this in “comment”, I guess)

Update 3: Started mirroring my MyOpera site some 4 hours ago. 343MB saved and still going! :eyes: Also started to re-import the original “Hard Life” blog, and, just received the notification mail saying it’s finished. Excitement!!

Update 4: Re-import successful!! Still don’t like the theme. But at least there’s no pressure in terms of deadline. Meanwhile the mirroring is still going. 4.55 hrs 380MB!

Update 5 (22 March, 2020): Legacy site moved

Originally posted to mimismum.wordpress.com