It’s not the hottest summer I’ve seen, but this heat has lasted for a long time. And I can’t really have the windows fully open for a nice draft; about two weeks ago April decided to jump out from an open window. I didn’t really expect her to try to jump from the second floor… She was away all night, but apparently stayed nearby since I propped the door open in the morning and refilled her food bowl. Two seconds after the rattle of food in the bowl she was inside again.

It’s a tough life outside — there’s nobody there to refill your food and water bowls.

The biggest news right now is that I’ll be moving back to Stockholm in early September. I’m going to give another stab at studying, but the main reason is that I miss my friends and I have nothing to do down here. Studying is mostly so that I can apply for a student loan and afford the rent. Getting an education and a good chance at a job through the school doesn’t hurt, though.

I just installed the Flickr Photo Album plugin for WordPress, and I’m pretty impressed so far.

I used to post Flickr images by cut-n-pasting a text snippet I had stored as a WordPress note and replacing the relevant links with those of the photo I wanted to post. It works, but it’s kinda clunky and slow to do. With Flickr Photo Album you get a bar on the Write Post screen displaying your latest Flickr images, inserting the proper HTML with just two clicks — one to select the photo, another to select the size of the image you want to post. Perfect!

But wait, there’s more! You also get an integrated Flickr photo album (hence the name) — mine is located here. It looks kinda boring, but I’ll fiddle with the design of it later.

Definitely going to support this plugin in Kestrel.

In the other news, allergy season has started. Yay.