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As a kid I always loved McDonald’s. Didn’t get the opportunity to go very often because Mum generally refused to let us eat “that shit” but when I was invited to a birthday party there, or something like that.. you bet I’d scoff that food down. As a student, due to the locality of the… read full entry »
I took my Mum out for dinner this evening as it’s her birthday, and I’m blogging about it purely because I was really impressed by the quality of food and standard of service. Now, everyone knows I’m a grumpy bugger, and usually will only review something if it’s annoyed me or somehow prevented me from… read full entry »
I was browsing the Fair Review Project again today, aimlessly wandering from link to link to see if there were any interesting or amusing blogs on which I could waste a bit of time before I take my Mum out (happy birthday Mummy) later. Somehow I ended up at a review of a blog from… read full entry »
Yes, I have nothing of any interest to blog about so I’m filling the gap with some random kitty pictures. (Hands up if you predicted this’d happen!) If you saw my “Named the Kitty” side-post, you’ll know we named him Hex. For those that didn’t get it: it’s a Terry Pratchett Discworld novel reference, a… read full entry »
Finally got off my butt and added to tutorialtastic today.
Back when I first heard of XHTML it seemed like a brilliant idea. Here was a type of mark-up with rules, and rules mean an excuse to be my normal perfectionist self. It wasn’t long before I’d converted all 200+ pages of my website to this beautiful, lower-case, tidy syntax and was getting the green… read full entry »
I was just reading an article on the BBC news website about the wikipedia “scanner” picking up on people using CIA computers to edit entries, modifications to Gerry Adams’ entry from the Vatican, etc. (source) …interesting enough in itself, but that’s not what I’m blogging about. When I got to the bottom I realised that… read full entry »
We decided to name the kitty “Hex”, for various reasons…
Because you can never know too much, and it’s about time I wrote a follow-up to my PHP Script Checklist article. 1. Never include sensitive data in a .inc When I started my current job, one of the first things I did was move all of the database connection details (yes, that includes passwords) from… read full entry »
As someone who has ‘invested’ money into a range of t-shirts with a variety of slogans, I was somewhat disturbed to read this today: A man spotted wearing a T-shirt bearing an “offensive” slogan in a city centre has been warned he risks an £80 fine if he is caught again. […] The slogan on… read full entry »