Brain Assassin

How to exclude an image from your gallery? That’s the ques­tion I’ve been ask­ing myself a few days ago. Obvi­ously, Word­Press doesn’t pro­vide a solu­tion for this action out of the box so I had to get some help. As usual, Google wasn’t shy and came up with a lot of sug­ges­tions. First, I tried to hack my functions.php accord­ing to this awe­some post from the devel­op­ment team at Code Greene. Yes, it worked out quite well but I didn’t like all the has­sle … and I kinda fried my functions.php because the pro­vided code was full of HTML enti­ties (you know, & instead of & and the like).

So, I had to look fur­ther and I stum­bled over a nice lit­tle plug-​​in called Cleaner Gallery. This plug-​​in mainly takes care of the invalid XHTML that Word­Press pro­duces when using the gallery short­code. Addi­tion­ally, it pro­vides the user with a few more fea­tures not the least of it the abil­ity to exclude or include any images from your gallery. Just install it, take a look at the pro­vided readme.html and there you go. Nice work!

Ever since I saw the trashy The Dark Side of the Moon back in the Nineties I was into sci-​​fi flicks. There are lots of other movies but this one I couldn’t for­get and I still know a few scenes. Of course, I absolutely loved Event Hori­zon and Sun­shine. And now there’s another movie promis­ing a nice mix con­sist­ing of sur­vival hor­ror and sci-​​fi ele­ments: Pan­do­rum.

I haven’t enjoyed any sci-​​fi movies lately. I hope this one’s good and worth the money. In any case, I rely on Cameron’s Avatar to once again blow me away like he did with Ter­mi­na­tor II but I’m digress­ing. Read more…