Have lost mobile phone somewhere between office and home. Will get a new one early next week. Until then, only reachable by email. Arse.
Author: Alasdair
A kick up the arse…
I really must get around to learning Ruby. I mean, I got it all installed, and everything, but I seem to have stalled past that.
So maybe a step-by-step guide is what I need.
This entry was originally published at my workblog.
Yet more PHP links…
An article in defense of PHP’s security track record, mostly as reminder to learn a bit more about PHP’s treat_data and PHP5’s input_filter tools.
An article on PHP and iCal/vCal events – I can’t seem to find anything that’ll let me hook my PDA caledar up to a web-based one, so I may have to roll my own.
This entry was originally published at my workblog.
More WordPress plugins
An LJ/Wordpress sync tool: Livepress. Something to build into the black-ink revamp?
Tag plugin – something to put in on every install, I think…
This entry was originally published at my workblog.
With Friends Like These…
I am a very, very fortunate man indeed.
Andrew presented me with a card this evening. The card contained a list of names and a cheque, and an instruction to “go out there and buy a new camera”.
Circumstances had dictated that I be told that my friends were having a whipround “behind my back” as it were, but never, in my wildest dreams did I think that so many people would chip in, or that you’d all raise such a staggering amount. You’ve raised more than enough to buy me a new camera and to say that I am both touched and grateful is an understatement of some magnitude, but if I attempted to convey the depth of my gratitutde here, we’d all be horribly embarrassed.
So, the plan is this: In the next few days, I am going to go out and buy a new camera, and very importantly, some iron-clad insurance. If anyone so much as looks at the camera funny, I’m going to be claiming dammit!
And because a number people responded to my own plea for aid (which was taken down when I was told so as not to cause embarassment, but not before a number people responded to it), come payday, I am going to match what they donated via paypal and by purchasing prints, and donate the resulting amount (around the 250 pound mark – more details when I can get the money out of paypal and photobox, minus their processing fees) to cancer reseach.
I’ll say again: I am hugely touched, and unbelievably grateful to all of you who’ve helped me out.
Make with the questions.
One question, one honest answer, comments screened.
Really must sort out del.ico.us
But until I do: I very much like the idea of this here linknotes plugin for longer articles.
This entry was originally published at my workblog.
More photography links
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This entry was originally published at my workblog.
Today’s Hot Tip
The Skeleton Key: avoid like the plague.
The best thing about it are the snatches bits of top class old delta blues that get played on a couple of creaky old record players, and The Dixie Cups version of “Iko Iko”. And while I might well buy the soundtrack, this really isn’t enough to carry a whole movie. I mean, I like voodoo mentalism as much, hell, probably quite a lot more than the next man. I should not be a hard sell for this. But this was poor. They spend the fiirst half of the movie setting you up for a “make-you-jump” voodoo fest with what looked to be first-act-guns for a showdown involving poor bastards with their eyes and mouths sewn shut, and animate severed tounges, and dead black men swinging from lynching ropes and looking for revenge. Top class nonsense.
This is not what it delivers, and the sudden gear change two-thirds of the way through is annoying. It’s got a perfectly sound basic horror premise, but it sets you up to believe it’s going to exectue it one way, and then does it another, and rather than the “Ah! Shock Twist!” reaction they were hoping for, I just felt like I’d been cheated out of my voodoo zombies.
Just in case anyone gives a toss
I’ve started a workblog, which is mostly just a place to dump all those webdev and web culture related bits of nonsense that occur to me. Part of an ongoing effort to general tidy up my professional life. If you fancy keeping an eye on it, you can find it at alasdair.biz.
I mention it because from time to time, I do intend to actaully write the odd article on there, and have just put the first one “The Joy Of The Commons” up there – about the monetisation of mass amateurisation. Feel free to check it out, and tell me I’m talking out of my arse.