… and according to the Great Circle Mapper website a total of around about 100 740 miles in the air! Quite impressed by that number and all done in 45 flights.
They produce a nice map of your flights and mine looks like:
It does take a while to enter all the data as you need all your flights and airport codes but if you find yourself bored on a Sunday afternoon it passes a few minutes!
Before setting off on my travels this site went through a number of designs until I settled on the current one. It’s based upon the Wordpress vSlider theme from iruic.ac. The basics are still the original theme but with most the templates modified and all the images to change it from blue to green.
The theme itself is now a couple of versions on from what i’m using, and the new vSlider3 now supports variable widths and colour options. Oh for that a year or so back! 
Anyway, to see what the best wordpress theme has to offer head over there now! Sadly I can’t upgrade for a long while due to being on the road and i’m stuffed if I can remember what templates i’ve modified!
I came across a useful site today (actually came across it a few weeks ago then forgot about it – doh!). One thats attempting to create a links directory of travel blogs. I’ve been thinking about something like that for a while but never been able to find a directory script I think fits the bill and i’ve not wanted to start write my own to then vanish when travelling.
So, for a pretty good start and to submit your travel blogs take a look at bloggingabroad.com.
There’s also a blog on the site highlighting some of the submitted sites and some useful travel tips. Have a read of the “flashpacking” article too. All about those champagne backpackers!
I tend to get a few hits from people looking for the vSlider Wordpress and gallery2 themes, so thought it worth a mention that there’s now new versions for both applications. This follows on from the recent new releases of both wordpress2 and gallery2.1.
Ive not moved Gone Walkabout over yet, and maybe won’t as i’ve quite a lot of template changes – but if your thinking about trying the best wordpress/gallery2 theme avaliable go grab the newer versions with a few new, and very nice, features!
Don’t forget the home of vslider too – iRui.ac
Earlier last week Gallery2 had an official 2.1(Blackjack) release and i’ve just upgraded gonewalkabout to that version. To go with that wpg2 version 2.0 was officially released too.
Both seem to be working well together right now, but should you spot any errors i’ve missed please let me know!
Seeing as how people stumble across this site from various search engines looking for galleries about all sorts I thought it’d be worth highlighting a new site thats been set up to showcase the various Gallery2 websites around.
So if your looking at some idea’s of what you can do with Gallery2, or just want to check out some other photo sites then head over to g2-sites.com and if you currently have a Gallery2 powered site then don’t forget to submit yours to the list!
That site again: www.g2-sites.com
In the UK the Disasters Emergency Committee has launched an appeal for those affected by the Earthquake in South Asia earlier in the week. If you are able to donate to the appeal head over to the DEC website now!
For those outside the UK there is the International Red Cross website.
Following on from this earlier posting the Gallery2 software used on this site has gone gold – so if you’re looking for gallery hosting software then give Gallery2 a go. They also just introduced a fastly improved website design and for some other examples of site running the Gallery2 software take a look at their links here.
Too add to this the wpg2 plugin to integrate Gallery2 with wordpress has also gone gold!
edit: update completed of both wpg2 and gallery2 and all appears to be working!
Following on from the events in Asia a number of aid agencies have set up appeals for help.
If your able to give some help in the form of a donation visit:
UK:
DEC – Disasters Emergency Comittee
The Disasters Emergency Committee (which includes ActionAid, British Red Cross, CAFOD, Oxfam, Save The Children, Christian Aid and World Vision) can also be contacted on 0870 606 0900.
UK mobile operators have set up a number to donate £1.50 per text sent to 83321 with the word “donate” in the text itself.
Australia:
USA/Global:
Save the Children
UNICEF
International Red Cross
Some of the sites are very slow at the moment but keep trying.
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