The Gods of the Copybook Headings
I cam across a reference to one verse of this poem by Rudyard Kiplingthe other day when I was reading, and given the news at the moment of collapsing banks and general financial turmoil, I thought it …
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…
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.…
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 spottedthis storyrecently that made …
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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 w…
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 thoug…