The following events take place between 11am on Monday and 6pm on Tuesday
Dramatis Personae:
D: Dragon, the protagonist.
RC1: Recruitment Consultant number 1, an antagonist.
RC2: Recruitment Consultant number 2, another antagonist.
I: Interviewer from company looking for a protagonist.
#1. Monday AM
D: Hello Recruitment Consultant One. I just thought I’d let you know that I thought the interview went [...]
Archive > November 2006
Five Phone Calls
Into the smoke
I went into London today for the first time in over 3 months. I’m surprised it’s been that long but time flies when you’re changing nappies. I went in for a job interview for a contract position as I’ve decided that’s what I’ll try next. I’ve been worrying all weekend that my [...]
Customisation
PHPBB has got to have just about the worst goddam custom style template system ever. That’s the problem with freeware systems like this (and PHPNuke CMS which I evaluated recently), they’re just so, I don’t know, leaden. So fucking counter intuitive.
One of the joys of Wordpress is that it’s very easy to [...]
Bite Back
And now a message from our sponsors.
Nine Inch Nails are touring Europe again next year. They’re playing in London on the 7th and 8th of March.
Do I already have my tickets* booked? Is the Pope a homophobic former Nazi?
(*I’m going on the 8th if it helps you decide which night to [...]
One small step
For a stay at home dad, my baby posts have been remarkably thin on the ground. Probably because I don’t blog about my family. Or anything interesting but particularly not about my family or other personal stuff.
While not quite in the same league as Dan’s marvellous video, I put together a 20 [...]
falling down a mountain
(Originally posted on 27th October. This is a repost as, owing to a catastrophic hosting server failure, the original was lost. The follow up is tomorrow.)
It’s been quiet here because I’ve been preparing for the OMM. That’s “Original Mountain Marathon” which was the Karrimor International Mountain Marathon (KIMM) until this year. If you’ve [...]
set birthdayCake = makeCake(carrot);
I made a cake today. It’s the first cake I’ve made in the best part of twenty years. It’s a trial run for the hatchling’s first birthday which is in a months time. I followed a recipe that was in the back of a baby book so it’s fairly healthy, although it [...]
Permissions 2
Now pay attention, 007.
The post two posts ago that I posted when I couldn’t post the post I just posted complained about not being able to post a post was referring to the fact that whenever I tried to post the post I’ve just posted before this post, I’d get a post error [...]
Late Night Sessions
This isn’t going to be as interesting as your dirty little mind thinks it will be.
There’s an error in the following code snippet that returns the message “Can’t open http://www.blah.com/blah.xml”. Can you work out why?
$xmlfeed = “http://www.blah.com/blah.xml”;
$news=@fread(fopen($url,”r”),10000) or die(”Can’t open $xmlfeed!”);
$news = @file_get_contents($xmlfeed);
$p = xml_parser_create();
xml_parse_into_struct($p, $news, $vals, $index);
xml_parser_free($p);
Got it? Simple eh. Took you, [...]
Permissions
The long post I’ve just written has been devoured by a security access problem.
I think I’m going to scream.
