BrainBeat Productions Multimedia blog

Hi guys
I have added another 72 photos to my gallery in the photography part spread throughout various albums. The main reason why I have found and been working on these photos is that the company Golden has been running a promotion where if you purchased 3 of their products you could make a 20 page photo book from snapfish. I thought about what to put into the book and decided that why put a whole heap of family photos into a book where I would probably print out those family photos out myself anyway where I have a lot of other random photos I have taken which a book worthy but I may never print out. Go to http://www.brainbeatproductions.com.au/gallery/Photography to check them out and please feel free to leave comments about them. All photos I have in my gallery are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia License too which means you are free to use them as you want for anything noncommercial.

Dear Readers

I have just added some photos I have taken of a wedding which I was the official photographer to the Wedding Photography part of the gallery. Below are a few examples of where is there and there are many more to be added from this and other weddings.

I am glad to say that most of the problems I had with the website are now fixed. I have been able to recreate the menues and pages from a older version I had. There may still be some bad links and other errors but I will be looking at them tomorrow. I have also started populating the new gallery with photos. Here is one example to take a look at and if you would like to see more you can find them in the gallery.

Hi guys it has been a while since I have posted a message and once again it is to report an error. I have recently had my website moved from my old server to a new one and some where in the moving an error seems to have occured and all but a few pages would not display correctly and the menu was not functional. The error was not picked up for a week or so and I have only been able to work on it today and it. The only was we could see it to be workable was to wipe it out and do a fresh install of Joomla which it is based. This has left me with the website empty of content. I will work on it again tomorrow and it should be all fixed then. My gallery I had been using on the old web server also did not migrate correctly and so that has been wiped out and upgraded to the RC1 of Gallery 3 which means all old links to any photos are not going to work and if the website had been working as it seems they have changed the file name from main.php to index.php. The gallery will be populated tomorrow also with a lot more content that last time including a few thousand photos I took on a recent holiday in New Zealand. This new gallery does not have a theme yet to intergrate into my website but I will be working on that in the coming week or so. I will be posting some photos here when I add them to the gallery.

Shawn Sobey

BrainBeat Productions

Hi guys

I have been experiencing internet problems over the last week which has meanth that we website has been down for up to and hour at a time. I have not as yet found out the reason for this instability but am in the process of inviestigating the problem and wil keep you posted on the cause once it is found

It seems this blog has lately become a record of my server problems but anyway If you tried to access my website during the last 2 days you would not have gotten anything. On Wednesday night we had a power failure and the server and router lost power and it seems that the server changed its IP address and the router kept redirecting the website requests to the old address. I only found this out just now and it is now up and running again and hope I do not have any problems for a while.

Just a quick not to say the website may be down for a bit today as some Telstra guys are once again fixing my phone line for the 4th time in the last 5 months after some workmen who were installing a storm water pipe dug the trench too deep and cut the cable again. I am very hopeful that this will be the last time I will have phone and internet troubles before the fiber cable is rolled out.

The website is up (and has been up since 10am) after ETSA was adding a 3 phase power line to our stobey pole. Our hose only has a 2 phase connection but there have been 2 new houses build next door which will be having reverse cycle air conditioning which requires 3 phase.

I am going to be adding some new pages and content to the website in the very neer future so stay tuned.

The BrainBeat Productions website will be down on Thursday morning from 8:45am to 12:pm as ETSA will be cutting our electricity supply to do some unspecified maintenance.

My website has been down for the last few days and may got down again sometime for a while as I have had troubles with my phone line. On Tuesday a guy who was digging a hole to place in a new gas connection dug too deep and totally cut the phone line that goes to my house which meant I lost the land line phone and the internet. It took Telstra until mid yesterday (thursday) to come out and patch the cable back together. I do now have internet and phone again but it is not as good as it has been with some noise on the line and the My ADSL is running slower. Telstra said when i rang them up that they would be sending some more guys today to lay a whole new cable as this one is not up to scratch anymore (being cut twice and damaged by rain will doit). They have not turned up yet (not that i would blame them with 42C heat) but I do hope they do so i can get full speed again.