January 2009
Dry outside today (for once) so going to the skatepark!
Listening to The Mountain Goats whilst trying to solve some mail server problems.
Having great difficulty figuring out a 3-way SQL join that someone else coded, aaarghh.
Cool, new version of Twitterific! http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific
Ok, calling it quits on a piece of code for the day, it won the battle but the war isn’t over ;)
Cool, a jQuery API browser for the iPhone: http://bit.ly/WDGE (via @brandonaaron @jeresig)
Ok, giving up for the day. Sore head and staring at lines of code isn’t working for me today :(
Hilarious http://tinyurl.com/btgfk9
So far this evening I’ve learned how crash test dummies are made amongst others, next up, fizzy juice, cement and… zzzzzzz zz z z
Wife is using the laptop so am aimlessly poking at apps on my iPhone. Need that additional laptop at home.
Anyone want to buy a Nokia N95 phone? currently on Orange UK, £100 and it’s yours.
I misread the news and thought it said a woman gave birth to an octopus.
About to do a presentation to the Care Commission, hoping it goes well :)
So, Monday is both Burns Night and Chinese New Year, I guess that makes it Chinese Burns?
Stoked. Setting up Darwin Streaming Server & Shoutcast on new Ubuntu server worked easily. Plus firewall mngmnt is way easier in Ubuntu too.
Tagliatelle: Italian for TV dinner?
Getting way to addicted to the game iShoot. Must. Stop. Playing.
Reading over WCAG 2.0, hoping it’s not 2.less ;)
There’s Enough iPhone Apps To Spell The Alphabet →
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Flexigrid - Web 2.0 Javascript Grid for jQuery →
Lightweight but rich data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using Ajax to load the content. Saved…
Delving into some more IE browser testing, hopefully it will go well :)
jQuery Splitter Plugin →
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Cool, I have an SE/30 in the office! http://tinyurl.com/9boll2
Looks interesting, research paper about Indie Mac Developer comunity http://www.madebysofa.com/indiefever
#firstmac PowerBook 180 (circa 1993), bought 2nd hand in 1998, took that around Western Australia! http://tinyurl.com/chcyzs
Given up on trying to configure remote desktop access to my ubuntu server for the time being. Now to get Darwin Streaming Server running! :@
Trying to configure eBox on Ubuntu 8.10, hitting issues already, ho hum.
PHP Growl Notifications - Click On Tyler →
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Aargh, Feedburner is losing it’s Site Stats feature in the move to Google Accounts. Boo! :(
Ok, I’m cool with using Google analytics for Feedburner stats now, it shows higher visitor numbers anyway :)
This is really cool, send Growl notifications via PHP http://clickontyler.com/php-growl/
Today’s schedule is mainly taken up with migrating databases from my old to new dedicated server. Kind of fun actually, strangely!
Ok, sent out Spotify invites to those who asked, still got a few left too.
Anyone need a spotify invite? Got 10 to give out.
Up and ready to go to work :)
Ok, got 4 invites to Ensembli, anyone want one? Serious takers only please, check it out first, http://ensembli.com/
Yikes. http://tinyurl.com/8jpt3k=OTC-RSS&attr=797093
Looking forwards to checking out the Fine Simple Steps book: http://www.fivesimplesteps.co.uk/
Just upgraded to a 50GB dropbox account, such a useful tool it’s crazy not to do so!
Ok, reminder to all US folks. News series of Lost doesn’t air here until Sunday 25th so NO SPOILER TWEETS PLEASE!!! ;)
Cool, snowing outside :)
Just spent a couple of hours starting my own character in Animal Crossing on the Wii. Almost paid off my mortgage ;)
Lying on the floor of daughter’s bedroom whilst Gabriella plays, catching up on sleep lost last night due to server downtime. zzzzzz
It’s 2.15am and I’m trying to restore the IPTABLES settings on my server after the downtime, they always get screwed up on reboot :(
Ack, about to lose my 178 days of uptime on my MySQL server :( Have to shut it down for power maintenance.
Like this 4-way split video for The Breeders http://www.coudal.com/breeders.php
WatchThe Breeders - Walk it off (via Coudal)
Woken up a little bit, my main MySQL server has to go down for a 2 hour period this evening due to power supply upgrade. Fearing problems :(
Full. of. food. Couch. potato. zzzzzzzzzzz.
Just ordered Pizza Hut home delivery :)