More YouTube madness. An Orc goes basejumping in Azeroth.

Via Alice

Do you do web development on your own PC, running your own HTTP server and so on? If so, do you seperate out your files into Development and Production (or even Dev, Test and Production?) If so, how do you prefer to organise your files so that you know which is the latest version of a site and which is a development in progress? Do you even bother to do versioning?

(I’m only really interested in development done on a local machine rather than in a client/server environment. That’s easy and also something I don’t currently have the luxury of having in place.)

One final YouTube selection for today. I’ve never seen Pimp My Car Up or whatever the hell it’s called but I get the idea. This was quite an amusing video ripping off that show by introducing a Star Wars element. Not quite as good as Troops but very droll. Worth it for the iPod advert ripoff.

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I meant to link this for Pix, being a fellow sometime Star Wars geek, sometime ago. The song that I played in the car was the Badd Spellah remix of “Fett’s Vette” by MC Chris. The uncensored version can be downloaded here (Right Click, Save Target As… or whatever it is you do.)

This song achieved some fame when a very enterprising and creative soul, who goes by the handle Balgosa Windspire, used SWG to create a machinma video to the song (radio edit version). It is still one of the best pieces of player driven creativity I’ve seen.

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Another machinma gem from a very creative WoW player. What happens if you cross Micheal Jackson’s “Billy Jean”, a quest for beginner Alliance characters and the Night Elf dance?

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Although I’ve been aware of its exisistence, I’ve never really perused the Wordpress Plugin Database to see what goodies are on offer. The only plugins I currently use are Akismet to stop comment spam and wp-cron/wp-cron-mail to permit posting by email.

If you have a Wordpress weblog, do you use any plugins and, if so, what are they?

The port of Bodrum is located on the coast of south western Turkey, overlooking the Aegean Sea. These days it serves as a holiday destination and is a thriving resort town although it was not always so. Bodrum is built on the ruins of Halicarnassus, an ancient city famous for two reasons.

The first is that Halicarnassus is the birthplace of Herodotus, considered by many to be the father of historical study as we know it (unless, of course, you happen to be a student of his contemporary, Thucydides). Much of what we know about life in 5th Century Greece, Persia and Egypt comes from his writings.

The second famous fact about Halicarnassus is that it is the site of the tomb of Mausolus, built in about 350BC and one of the seven wonders of the ancient world (and also the reason we now have the world Mausoleum).

(Sunset over the Aegean Sea, October 2006 - Click for bigger)

Approximately 220km north of Bodrum is the ancient archeological site of Ephesus which, amongst other impressive classical buildnigs, was also home to another of the seven wonders of the ancient world namely the Temple of Artemis. This shrine to the Greek Goddess of the Hunt was built some 200 years prior to the tomb in Halicarnassus and was destroyed by fire only a couple of years before Mausolus’ resting place was constructed.

Could I be arsed to see either of these two historical sites when I was in Bodrum last week? Could I fuck!

I learnt to wakeboard instead.

And then I did some diving.

It was very nice.

I’ve noticed that many blogs are “going pink”* to raise awareness about breast cancer. This is very admirable. Especially for those male bloggers who are supporting their female compatriots (as well as highlighting the fact that men can also get breast cancer)

Next year, I hope that they go blue (or whatever colour it might be) for Male Cancer Awareness Month which was in June this year. After all, while breast cancer can claim the lives of ~12500 women in the UK on an annual basis, testicular and prostate cancer is still sending 10000+ British men to the gates of Hades every year too.

What’s more, rather than giving men anything that might be equivalent to the NHS Breast Screening Programme, the government has decided that men only need a handout about prostate cancer risk management.

*Tabula Rasa doesn’t do Pink. Ever. But, perhaps when I can be arsed to to sort out the CSS and new layout fully soon, there might be a token pink element.