The joys of SQL
I don’t usually post webcomics, but this one spoke to me on two levels – I work in a school, and I do stuff with SQL databases.
Category: Blog
Adding "digg it" buttons to Blogger
As you have no doubt noticed, I’ve added some digg blog furniture to my posts. This wasn’t quite as simple as the instructions on digg suggested, sadly, so I had to find help elsewhere. This page was most helpful, but it deals only with New Blogger with it’s fancy modern templates and tags, and I’m still using a (heavily modified) old Blogger template, so the examples provided didn’t work. Thankfully, they only required minor tweaks. I was interested in the …
Halo 3
Those of you even with a vague passing interest in video games can’t have failed to notice that Halo 3 came out recently for the Xbox 360. Apparently there were queues at midnight for it and everything. Even my friends list on Xbox Live was full of Halo 3 players for the first few days. But, if you read my Gaming Diary, you’ll have noticed I’ve not played it. “But you own every game ever! Surely you bought Halo 3!” …
LOLshops
Just walked past these fine establishments. I knew Curl Up and Dye was there, but Pierced Off is a new one on me…
Hurrah for City Link!
With the Royal Mail postal strikes over the next few days, at least we can rely on City Link to deliver our goods safely, yes? Well, no.
What’s in a name?
Well, aside from letters and usually a space or two. I came across a post on EduGeek today: [The] Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), today launched an online cyberbullying campaign, new guidance and a short film to help schools tackle bullies who use the internet or mobile phones to bully other children or abuse their teachers. And the Secretary of State for Children’s name? Ed Balls. It makes you wonder if he’s had any personal experience …
Illegal download detected!
Apparently, I am a software pirate. You see, I’m looking for a vector version of the Chinese characters for “Welcome” for work. I know what they look like, but only have them as a tiny gif and need it blown up to hugebig proportions for a sign. So I searched the internet for something to do this, and typed “chinese symbol finder” as a Google search term. In the results, I see a link for “Chinese Symbol Studio”, so follow …
{Insert joke about Germans here}
When I published a post to my gaming diary, Blogger suddenly went all Deutsche on me. Ist gut, ja?
Yahoo! robot! most! popular! browser!
DYSWIST? Anyway, I’ve just had a look at my site logs for this week and something slightly shocking and Yahoo-shaped seems to have occurred: It doesn’t surprise me that there have been so many individual robots in the list, but that Yahoo figure is a bit high, don’t you think? Almost 60% of my week’s hits have been from Yahoo? What are they doing? Also interesting is the decline of Internet Explorer. Firefox and Mozilla combined are now somewhat ahead …
Creating an RSS feed using PHP
Doesn’t the title of this post just fill you with thoughts of fun and excitement? Of things you love to do on warm, sunny days? Of course it does. On Friday evening, I thought (as you do), “I know! I’m going to create my own RSS feed in PHP!”. And promptly did. Hurrah! Thing is, it turned out to be a lot harder than I expected, due to the lack of full and/or correct information on the internet. Here then, …
God bless "noobs", eh?
I know it’s wrong to mock those who don’t understand, but I couldn’t help laughing at this conversation on a Mac newsgroup today: > > Does anyone here run a blog and what do you use?>> WordPress. Isn’t this for Windows? Amazing!
My sister on Radio 1
It would appear that my sister Rhi‚àö¬¢n was on Radio 1 yesterday morning, on Fearne and Reggie’s show (minus Fearne, it seems) talking about a stupid competition she once took part in. Of course, it’s nothing on my appearance on television, but it’s a start, yes? Here’s the 50 second snippet: My sister on the Radio.
Emails from the Dawn of Time #2
Here’s another one, this time from 2002: Hello andy i think that your site is amazing, i love you pro wife simulator, however it is only amzing for animals such as slugs (it could be amazing for a snail but it is not likly due to there higher standards). You SUCK Wow! I bet I was well upset when that appeared in my inbox.