This last week I’ve been working like a stocky oxon. My boss was off sick with a bad back having attempted to moved piano into his home. In his absence the work piled in relentlessly and I’ve been doing my best to wade through it, along with attending various meetings and presentations. No time for [...]

Dean launched the first public BETA of his blogwriting software Textpattern yesterday. I’ve bravely decided to test it on the new, troublesome GuyWeb server. I was immediately fearing the worst when I saw that you need to change the permissions of two of the directories to ‘0777′. Yes, it wants a Unix box. We’re on [...]

Saw my old buddy Matt Haywood, who I haven’t seen in ages in the most unlikely of places. I spotted the talented drummer boy shaking his booty as an extra in the Hollyoaks nightclub in the sunday T4 omnibus whilst eating my sunday cornflakes. Oh to know the famous…

I’ve had a bit of time on my hands this weekend and have decided to make some of the most visited pages a little more accessible. Thus, the ‘essays’ have been reformatted using the new style.

Remember the days when you used to be able to comment on individual posts? Those were good days. When browsing through the site archives you will find that comments don’t work. This is because they were dynamically driven by the CGI behind Movable Type. But now, for your archiving pleasure, I give you the comments [...]

These days I have to plan well in advance to have a bath. Current time to fill the bath: 75 minutes. We have a limescale problem. We have a ‘mixer’ tap on our bath with one of those push button things in the middle that allows you to transform your bath into a shower via [...]

I couldn’t do what I wanted with PHP. So I’ve switched to ASP. Dean Allen suggested a method of getting my PHP includes to use virtual paths - use $__SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"];
All servers doing what they’re supposed to do, this would have been fine and dandy. Unfortunately, this server doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do, as [...]

1 million people march in protest.

A new widget has appeared under the search for swapping styles. I’m going to develop some alternative styles for the site this weekend a la Zeldman. At the moment there’s a hideous black one. Ignore it or enjoy it - it’s up to you.

…are a sodding mystery to me! I decided to make my life easier by using PHP included files to write the header, footer and other static stuff on the pages of this site. Was this a good idea? Well, in theory yes. Having the header and footer in separate files means I only have to [...]