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Psychic Delia Website

Finally, the Psychic Delia website is back online, after it had been hit by a terrible hack attack – as so many others over the past year and, especially, month. Psychic Delia O’Riordan is a prolific writer with a large readership following her articles on Psychic Readings, Paranormal phenomena and many other topics so many people get more and more interested in today.

Psychic Delia Website

A personalized “Join me on Facebook” and “Join me on Twitter”  tab has been integrated on the Psychic Delia Website – and all that remains now is to redo the Shop.

Just Ask Delia’s readings are extremely helpful as you can read on the Testimonials page (these are real people that can be contacted!). Please use the Contact page if you want to urgently book a reading and the Shop is not ready yet. Otherwise, I hope I get it done by tomorrow!

Sometimes family and friends are just too close and you need a neutral professional to help with an issue – that’s where Delia O’Riordan can be of immense help!

 

 

 

Dill from Noordhoek

“Dill from Noordhoek” could become a niche product for me as the plants are thriving so well in my garden! As we are moving towards the shortest day and the longest (and probably coldest) night down here in the Southern hemisphere at the tip of Africa, we have to use every minute of sunshine to get on with all that needs to be done in the garden, planting and transplanting, just before the next storm or rains hit us!

That’s when I also noticed that my dill (Anethum graveolens), which is also called ‘Lao coriander’ when grown in Laos and Thailand, is much higher than the 40-60 cm mentioned in many manuals! It’s not only a very useful culinary as well as medicinal plant and herb, but in my view also pretty decorative in gardens, besides the fact that it attracts beneficial insects. I love the fragrance and use almost everything – the fernlike aromatic leaves, stems and seeds – when preparing delicious meals, especially in winter vegetable soups, colourful healthy salads and fish dishes. It’s unbeatable in mashed potatoes, cucumber pickles  and with smoked salmon.

Here we go again: food! I could go on and on. . . so could you, I’m sure !

 

 

Dill from Noordhoek

My other agenda when it comes to ‘Dill from Noordhoek’ is, of course, digital photography! And Dill is so incredibly photogenic! Whether as a plant with its fine twigs and umbrella-shaped yellow flowers or when the seeds ripen! As I’m not back to normal eye-sight just yet, I am starting slowly to get back into swing with my images. The photo below is the original I took about a month ago with my Fujifilm – and I think it’s rather sharp although, at that time, I wasn’t seeing that sharp anymore and wondered why!

 

But to get back into swing, I worked on this simple photo in ADOBE Photoshop to give it a different look, an antique frame, and playing with black & white values. When seeing the photo, I immediately saw an arum lily as well, and tried to bring this out as a little side note – not that it is important, but it inspired me to work around it! If you squeeze your eyes and look at it from further away, it’s actually quite amazing!

So that’s for today’s article on “Dill from Noordhoek”…. working my way up again after losing all my work since February due to a bad hack – so don’t be surprised by seeing changes in the website soon, too!

Have a happy weekend and enjoy a good meal – with or without dill!

 

 

 

 

Good Evening from Noordhoek

The last visible sunset at Chapman’s Peak is a good reason to send everybody a cheerful “Good Evening from Noordhoek” – in gold !

On its path – depending on who’s looking from where and how of course – the sun disappears from our sight around mid February and returns around mid November. At Christmas we see it sinking into the Atlantic Ocean, right in front of us.

Good Evening from Noordhoek

These days we unfortunately spend more time on cleaning out hacks than enjoying something like a peaceful and serene “Good Evening from Noordhoek” – or grabbing a digital camera and taking photographs.

However, it seems these brave guys have upgraded from hitting normal people to the likes of Facebook and Microsoft. May those entitities deal with them accordingly.

Now for a glass of champagne to celebrate the end of February 2013 – on my sister’s birthday February 29th – forever young! Cheers!

First March Lilies 2013

The first March Lilies (Amaryllis belladonna) 2013 greeted me early this morning when I stepped into my garden! The ideal moment for some flower photography: a bright pink bouquet of amazing beauty with Chapman’s Peak in Noordhoek, South Africa, in the background! The perfect “Good morning from Noordhoek!”

First March Lilies 2013

Perhaps it’s a bit early for the first March Lilies, but I am thrilled whenever I see them coming up! It means that it will get a little cooler and – hopefully for Nature and the gardens – the rains are not far away!

First March Lilies 2013

The huge trumpetlike flowers of the Amaryllis belladonna exhude a fine scent and are an unforgetful sight when growing in carpets on a mountain slope. They love rocks and rocky soil. While the seeds are distributed by the wind, they have large clumps of bulbs that can be separated during the dormant season and transplanted. That’s how I transplanted these in a sheltered yet very central spot, close to rocks and agapanthus.

I will have to inspect my garden for all the secret places that may explode in pink within the next days! They will attract honey bees and carpenter bees and I have seen sunbirds hovering over them. Unfortunately, there’s also a black and yellow striped caterpillar – the lily borer – that means big trouble. If I see it I remove it by hand and cut off the infected and damaged parts of the foliage. If I don’t, the little bugger continues to eat its way through and the stem eventually collapses. I’m sure there is other food around – just not these stunning march lilies that don’t last forever anyway!

Interestingly, the longish leaves of the amaryllis belladonna only appear after flowering and remain green and juicy throughout winter. This rather unusual phenomenon is called hysteranthy.

Improve WordPress Security with Salt

How to improve security on WordPress and what are Security Keys? If your website has ever been hacked, you probably have changed passwords and access names, but have you ever thought of changing your WP Security keys?

Where are the WordPress Security Keys?

Without going into technicalities, just know, that WP comes with security keys. Defaults are loaded in the database. Additional keys can be edited in the wp-config.php file.

Add Salts to the wp-config.php file

By default the wp-config.php contains:

define('AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('NONCE_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');

When installing WP, the so-called Salts are often created automatically. If they are not there, you are invited to create your own unique pass phrases.

To keep it simple, you may use the automated key generator from WordPress, click HERE

When clicking on the above link you may get something like this (don’t use the below keys, get your own and keep them secret!):

define('AUTH_KEY', ',Z9!M|Lccf;Y]]@gD{ G^.CI~koampO,Rc{Uev+E)nOdoB~E<+;J|svK=}/!i4}J');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'V}jovPJ6BXCD0C (.t[wf7-h^MSO.tCTE`|1jVw^J#^%~3@ZuoWHfCy[+zpFogM#');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'JU+Nh5|hAz-J6&}Trgkg`vn-$cjPV3S3<^ZTk{<vD_|P^L>w+[=q5ovK*p450E9`');
define('NONCE_KEY', 'C!w3rs.=K^y2dx,YX]*-$z=hP+=WFa3cl?18VxF0?VD.dtR&R0xK*$&+IJ&QKB)J');
define('AUTH_SALT', '&Ry7_ueekL-DO0s*DBeCw7+NPZ6^AcGbTrre@]^6NjnFtWu$FMK{$UGkTxC<;71J');
define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', '3bd~/> k1]kjOf|)Q^Mi%-36TOmSt>-Z$1QuF*<Z|1NfY3Yz[W1/;H/yvL~0sz0V');
define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', '+&%:*T^5FN5[j6A9?Oq25QoE?sI<6u)(GAa4>8`o#jt3Yd0m}xg@iBA}+;.lb|*U');
define('NONCE_SALT', 'fr28HY1.]Jb3;L{{RmUj{j_}6r]p0[M<d8|+[}$%j#?cGJcC vMX-|;Loph.-bLV');

Replace the above defaults or your existing keys with the new keys from the generator (change a few digits if you really are paranoiac). Just overwrite the existing lines in your wp-config.php and save to server.

Change these keys once in a while, namely after a hack.

If you need further help, please comment below or contact me through support.

 

 

Move an existing WP installation into its own folder

To increase security and to better organize files and folders on the server, you may want to move the WP core files into its own folder. Here is how to proceed.

The scenario: WP in the root directory

By default many users install their WordPress core in the root directory. The resulting default URL of the site and of WP is http;//myblog.com

You want to move WP while keeping the same URL as before, not just for the home page but also for your posts, pages and other links (media for example).

The name of the new folder, where WP core will be hosted can be anything. For the purpose of this exercise I will call it: ‘myscripts’

IMPORTANT

Before you start, backup your Database and files.

8 Steps to move WordPress

1. Deactivate all plugins and empty cache if applicable.

2. In your Dashboard go Settings > General and change the WordPress Address (URL) to http://myblog.com/myscripts

You will now get an error or a messed up site, but don’t worry, we will fix this right away.

3. Access your server via FTP or from your cPanel.

4. Create a new directory under the root directory named ‘myscripts’

5. Cut and Paste all WP files and folders into the new folder

6. Make a copy of WP index.php and of  .htaccess file and place them back into the root directory (from where you have moved the WP core files).

7. Edit index.php from the root directory (do not change the files you have moved).

Line 17 reads:

require('./wp-blog-header.php');

Change it to:

require('./myscripts/wp-blog-header.php');

8. Login to your dashboard and reactivate your plugins, you are ready to go.

Change the Image Links

Your blog is back up and running, but you may have an issue with your image links. By default your media were stored in the uploads directory:

http://myblog.com/wp-content/uploads/

Now they have moved to:

http://myblog.com/myscripts/wp-content/uploads/

1. Download and install the Plugin called: Search and Replace from the Plugins tab in your Dashboard.

2. Go settings and Search for: http://myblog.com/wp-content/uploads/

and Replace with: http://myblog.com/myscripts/wp-content/uploads/

All links are corrected and your media display properly.

Syndicated Post Images Redirection

If your posts are syndicated to other websites where their content is displayed, all the image links will be broken since you have changed the location of the uploads (image) folder.

Here is how to remedy:

1. Access server via FTP and edit .htaccess in the root folder and in the folder ‘myscripts’

2. Add the line:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/wp-content/uploads/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/(.*)$ /myscripts/wp-content/uploads/$1/$2/$3

Done, now all links to the old uploads folder will be permanently redirected to your new uploads folder and images will be displayed properly.

I hope this helps.

 

 

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