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Shadow, a friend of mine from quakenet channel #Webdev, was asking about the themes (As well as pointing out something on the comments page, which I’ve updated so thanks for that.) and why is my site now sporting a fixed theme with some bright orange bits (That incidentally he doesn’t like, but loads of people seem to prefer… C’est la vie.).

Well, the answer is that WordPress 1.0.1 did something queer with their configuration script which means my old method for setting the theme in a cookie no longer worked. People have told me to fix it using ob_start() buffers but so far this has only served to utterly confuse matters. This is further complicated by the abomination which is my CSS file. CSS is great, but thanks to the “learning experience” approach of my website, it’s out of control. Way, way out.

Why don’t I fix it? I need to. I also need to re-write my gallery admin code because people are asking me about whether they can use it too which, right now, they can’t because it was, again, a learn-as-you-go site. Thing is, no-one is going to pay me to fix it up and the infernal beast known only as “The Landlord” demands that I spend my time on more profitable endeavours. I think I’ll set aside an hour a day to devote to redevelopment and get things done, else it’s going to be this way forever. Nuts.

I wonder sometimes whether people overlook the gallery. I hope they don’t because that’s really the only reason I’m here! In an effort to help people keep up with the latest photos, photo’s younger than 10 days will appear with a natty little thing by them in the “Latest Photo’s” list just to the right there…

Before now, uploading more than one photo meant that the first up would disappear without acknowledgement into the “5 most recent” list, and not get the attention it should. I hope this helps fix the problem. I may even make it cookie based, so all new photos will shout at you the first time, and not afterward, but that would take a lot of effort and my time is better spent elsewhere. I may consider putting different colours up for photos of my GF, but they mysteriously attract more attention than anything anyway…

This BBC article pretty much sums it up. Surely they should have been happy with the chance to see such a natural spectacle, though? I know I wouldn’t have minded. Plus, what’s an American robin doing over here anyway? It obviously can’t hack the pace of the UK bird scene… 😉

Q: How many Loughborough engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Two. Myself, and my housemate Marcel.

No, it’s not funny. A lightbulb went, tripped the upstairs light circuit and plunged us into darkness. I went to the cellar, flipped the breaker, balanced on a swivel chair (That’s what Marcel was responsible for, the steadying of the repair facilitator) and changed the bulb.
Yes we keep spare bulbs in the house, we are “right proper” boy scouts.

Media Manager 1.1
I’ve added multinational support.
It should work.
If not.
Contact Me.

A Media Manager Pseudo Haiku, by Denyerec

(At least I got it in in 17 syllables, even if my meter is out…)

For those of you who cannot be bothered with the books or the movies, I give you:

The Lord of the Rings (Condensed)

I wrote a PHP script today, there were no errors and it worked first time.
Just thought I’d share that with you

I’ll be sharing the script soon.

Grey Tuesday has been and gone by without the excitement of a C&D letter from the darlings at EMI. I guess I should take that as a good thing.

After the files were deleted from my FTP I decided to take a wee look at my website stats…

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