Another rewrite for my Lonely Hearts Column dating site

September 10, 2007

It’s time for my 6 monthly rewrite for my dating site. I feel I’ve really gone to town this time Not only have I flattened loads of bugs, I’ve redesigned the look and even gone to the expense of commisioning some artwork. I’ve also rewritten loads of the database queries as I’m now using MySQL [...]

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Secret Cabaret DVD

September 9, 2007

I’ve just discovered that The Secret Cabaret featuring Simon Drake is available on DVD. This is really cool news for many magicians who have been asking for this and patiently waiting for many years. For those of you that have never heard of The Secret Cabaret or Simon Drake, this is a Channel 4 magic [...]

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Please fix my PC

August 22, 2007

I didn’t write this, but I think that it’s a pretty cool analogy, so I’m going to rip it off and post it here. It relates to the assumption on the part of many people that because someone works with computers that they’ll be happy to field personal technical support requests at the behest of [...]

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Converting from Serendipity to WordPress

August 18, 2007

What a nightmare it is! There are no specific tools for this job. What you have to do is export all of the entries in RSS format (XML), and then import them into WordPress. There are two main problems with this; the first is that all html formating has to be redone which means editing [...]

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Centuwian

August 16, 2007

Well, after weeks of nagging (not really), Lev has had the London photos developed.  Here is the Roman statue.  Not sure of his name, but I’m pretty sure it isn’t Biggus Dickus.

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