It's now wrapped

Following my idea the other day, you are now viewing this blog in a php wrapper. There's absolutley no change to the page and its layout, but now in the heading (I changed my mind about where to add this) you will see the number of site visits fed from my normal page counter.

Viewing the blog via the Blogger links will still display the page via the php wrapper, so visits will still be counted as hits on the site.

Wrapping up the blog

I want to add my page counter to the bottom of the blog, but it's a php script. Blogger publishes the pages as html files so you can't add the code to the templates. I've not seen anyone else with an answer to this, so.... As my blog is now part of my main site, I can write a wrapper for the pages in php. This wrapper will take the published pages, and based on any comments inserted in the Blogger template, add in php code.

Next, I will need to add a javascript so visitors comming from Blogger will also redirect through this wrapper.

If anyone is interested, please let me know. ??

Panorama

Here's my test for this morning, using Picasa I decided to upload my panoramic view towards the sea from our house. Now I know how this works and our camera should be back sometime next week, there should be a few more pictures appearing here soon.

Rain

At last we have have had two days of rain! Does that sound strange? Well, the villages here take their water from the mountain range behind us, there's plenty there if you can tap in at the right places. That's the problem though, they sunk bore holes too close to the sea and now with the demands of more tourists and more houses being built they can't cope with the demand. Because it has been a VERY dry winter the water table is down and the bore holes are sucking sea water back, the tap water has become salty. We hear that there are big discussions about getting funding from Athens/Europe to tap into the big springs some of which rise up in the sea around Stoupa and Kalogria which would solve the problem. So, for now the rain is very welcome, having just planted out some vegetables they can get a good start without watering them. Drinking water? We take large plastic bottles down to the village where there are taps that are supposed to be fed from springs higher up in the mountains. We're not sure about the source for them as everyone has a different story about where they are fed from, but at least that water always tastes good, and doesn't have the 'scum' on top in the same way as the tap water when you boil it.