This is a quick reminder for myself about the open source Pressbook project. Based on WP and uses H5P extensions, the project site states:
Pressbooks is a book content management system that exports in multiple formats: ebooks, webbooks, print-ready PDF, and various XML flavours. The system is built on top of WordPress Multisite, and makes significant changes to the admin interface, web presentation layer and export routines of a vanilla WordPress install.
https://pressbooks.org/
Information on embedding font into epub starts at ~5:30
This looks like it might be an interesting project. Also, might be able to use it as part of the virtual installation.
Source: H5P – Create and Share Rich HTML5 Content and Applications
I did well in the first masters unit, even after having to re-design and restart my artefact mid-semester. Lucky for me I write like a man possessed by the ghost of a 1920’s hack writer on Adderall.
Second unit is on experimental writing (an area I think I’ll excel in) and I was really enjoying the material. Then tragedy struck. My SSD started misbehaving. Being the obsessive I am I had backups up the wazoo.
Imagine my surprise to discover that was not enough.
Evidently SSD’s can gradually fail with no indication that they are about to other than the occasional error message on sign-out. As I only keep backups for the previous month this meant that the corrupted (ie. bad) sectors went largely unnoticed until the failure was obvious. I backup data files/folders I’m using (eg Scrivener folders, image downloads, works-in-progress, Thunderbird profile) but only do a full operating system backup monthly (unless I’m really busy in which case fortnightly).
So I’d completed two weeks of the unit and was all guns blazing when the SSD failed. I went to my backup and low and behold it had a problem to. I ended up using a backup from 3 months ago and then had to import everything into it slowly.
This wasted almost a week and then the first assessment was due. Luckily the Scrivener outline and all my notes imported fine and I was able to get going from where I left off with only a three weeks worth of transcriptions and notes lost.
I used the week off to redo the notes/transcriptions and have finally caught up. Hopefully I can put up some of the work I’ve done over the weekend.
The worst part of all this, the HDD I’m using at the moment stopped randomly yesterday so I don’t know if I’m going to have to do something like this all again (yep, backups are up to date and I’m running daily checks to verify everything is fine).
Like the power of his prose.
Well, it’s been a very busy few months.
Property:
Had a big storm come through in mid-February which blew some of the electrical equipment. Finally heard from the insurance company today and they ‘re going to send out a cheque for the value of the items. Should be back at full blitzkrieg by Easter. There’s quite a bit of wood to cut up and clear but we’re coming into winter so that’s more of a blessing than anything else.
Learnin’:
Graduated from Murdoch with a BA majoring in Community Development and minoring in Sociology. It took a long time but I’m finally there. Applied to CQU for their Master of Letters program. Was accepted and have been working hard on that (follow the links in the nav-bar above if interested).
Assortments:
Finished a trailer I was doing for Karen’s latest book (available to purchase as a Kindle eBook here).
Other than that I’ve been reading and writing as normal (just not here though).
Guess this will become my official author weblog now so I best try to update it more regularly.
As an old mate of mine used to say: See you ’round like bricks ain’t.
Tootles.
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