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The Gods of the Copybook Headings
I cam across a reference to one verse of this poem by Rudyard Kipling the other day when I was reading, and given the news at the moment of collapsing banks and general financial turmoil, I thought it appropriate! The verse I encountered was: “Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards
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Link Listing in WordPress
WordPress supports the ‘Blogroll’ model for links, which works fine for links but I wanted to be able to put together a series of pages listing links on different subjects for my CommunityNet project. For example, I wanted to have links grouped into such topics as ‘Think Tanks’, ‘Animal Welfare Groups’, etc. I couldn’t work
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The Bus Book – w/c 10th March – On Walden Pond (continued)
As you can see I didn’t do an exceptional amount of commuting last week, and Walden remained the Bus Book for this week as well. As I’ve progressed through it I’ve come to the conclusion that whilst I admire his ideas, I don’t think Thoreau would necessarily be a fun guy to spend an evening
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The Bus Book w/c 3rd March – On Walden Pond
One of the long term running gags in our family is that given half a chance I would either run off to live in the woods or become a hermit in a Monastery. Well, I spotted this story recently that made me seriously consider it… Here’s a guy who did it for almost 2 years –
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WordPress Template Pages
I use WordPress to run a few other websites, such as my CommunityHost site, and wanted to add a form to support a mailing list. My hosting company, Servage, supports mailing lists and I’ve used them with some success, so I didn’t need to re-invent the wheel and decided that the best bet would be
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Jeff Healey – Like a Hurricane
Canadian guitarist Jeff Healey died this week, losing a battle against cancer. I have to say that he’s a musician that I’ve heard occasionally and really enjoyed. He was younger than me when he died – something that always brings me up short. Tonight on the Bob Harris show (http://www.bobharris.org/pages/playlist.asp?progcode=s08032008 Jeff’s version of Neil Young’s ‘Like
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The sorry saga of varchar(Max) and ODBC in PHP
A project I’m currently working on uses SQL Server 2005 with PHP, the database being accessed via PHP’s ODBC library. I have to admit that I love my Stored Procedures, and rather than use ‘inline’ SQL SELECT statements in my data classes I’ve usually used Stored Proceduers when talking to SQL databases in the past.
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Web’n’Walk to the Rescue
Well, BT decided to throw some sort of unholy wobbly on me this evening and I ended up being unable to contact numerous sites I regularly use (including this Blog) and also experienced extremely slow performance on other sites and mail servers. The irony was that I couldn’t actually get to BT’s ‘Service Status’ page
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The Bus Book – w/c 25th February – The Master and Margarita
This week’s book was a very old favourite of mine – Mikhail Bulgakhov’s ‘The Master and Margarita’. If you haven’t read it – all I can say is get a copy. It’s a lovely, funny, sad, enchanting book which details the visit of the Devil and his entourage to Moscow, a novelist known only as
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Eclipse PDT – I’ve had to give up on it! Vs.php – come on down!
I’m peeved. The last 2 days have been incredibly frustrating for me with regard to using the Eclipse PDT PHP environment. I mentioned here that I’d been having problems with the workspace, and thought that I’d managed to get things sorted out. I kicked off a new project and I thought that all was well….