Over the weekend I had to update my cricket club website, reedcc.co.uk, and I had an awful lot of trouble getting it uploaded. It was slow and crashed a lot. Blocks pages seemed to take the longest. I put a query up on the developers website knowing that Isaiah, who writes Blocks is very active in his forums.

He offered to take a look at my site file for me. I sent him the 66mb file and he explained to me the issue, the site was too large. Not only that, he gave me some advice to get around the problem. The problem isn't with his product or with Rapidweaver, but just the number of pages in the site, over 600. This is excellent support. He could just have said, sorry, too big, not my fault and walked away, but no. He want beyond his product and went the extra mile.

All his plug-ins are excellent products and the support, as you can see, if second to none. This is what a developer should be able to do. Have close contact with their customers and be hands on with issues. I have to deal with big corporates during my day job and that is why I am so appreciative of Isaiah taking the time to help. Thanks Isaiah.

Tags: Yourhead, Rapidweaver

I submitted two more photos to iStockphoto this week and both were accepted. That makes it three on the trot. It is my most successful upload run. I really like this one. It is a picture of rain drops on my windscreen. I turned it black and white and this was the result. Hopefully someone will find it who wants a texture and buy it. I have nine photos now in my portfolio. You can see them here.

Last week I drove into the office and took the opportunity to take in my camera and tripod. I had been wanting to take night shots of London for a long time. I am lucky that I can get access to the roof. I have to say I am not a great fan of heights, but their is plenty of space up there to put the tripod and not be too close to the edge

I used my 18-55mm that came with the 400d. I used manual mode and used the exposure that the camera said was correct. Some of them I set the shutter speed to be faster than the camera wanted, but they still came out fine. Once I had taken the pictures I wanted I decided to have a play. I set a long shutter speed and slowly moved the zoom with the shutter open. I got some trippy stuff.

Hope you like them. You can see them in the 2008 gallery.

Tags: night shots, London