Jem's field notes

Karl and I went to hand over the keys for the old house this afternoon. Upon speaking to our landlord, we discovered that he also owns the flat downstairs (we’re first floor). How’s that for coincidence?

How better to bring myself back into regular blogging than with pictures of the furry boys? Apologies for the quality, these are taken in shit light (again): And if you like Furry Fridays, you may be interested in my next project. I’ll not be starting it for a couple of months though, so you can… read full entry »

Oh hai! I’m still alive :) ISP cocked up our connection move so an order that should have taken 24 hours or less to complete – giving us Internet the day after moving day – is now taking 7-10 days. We’re on day 4 now, so it shouldn’t be too long before I’m back on… read full entry »

12 hours of moving furniture yesterday, I’m absolutely knackered. Argh :| Anyway, not a proper blog, just wanted to let you all know that the Internet hasn’t been connected at the flat yet, the cats are settling in nicely, and the guinea pigs didn’t even notice we moved them really. A couple of people have… read full entry »

The day has finally arrived! Karl and I went to pick up the keys and let ourselves into the new flat. It’s just as spacious and light as when we looked around. And, I have to say, I was blown away by the thoughtfulness of the estate agents. They handled the entire thing with speed,… read full entry »

SitePoint (the cool people who make books and write articles and things) are giving away 5 of their books in PDF form for the price of 1. That’s $149.75 worth of books for just $29.95 (about 20 quid). As if this wasn’t a groovy enough deal on its own (because the SitePoint books do rock),… read full entry »

Due to the unfavourable exchange rate I’ve not bought a geek t-shirt in… quite a while. I try not to think about it too hard, else I might weep. To save myself the time and frustration of having to re-search (not research) for funny t-shirts next time I have money and no pending bills, I’ve… read full entry »

Less than 3 days to go until the big move. We’re almost living exclusively out of boxes at the moment. Anything remotely fun or interesting is packed away, as is most of the kitchen stuff (did that this evening). The only thing that isn’t packed — that’s next on my list — is the clothes…. read full entry »

Functions are the lifeblood of PHP. You can’t do a lot without PHP’s built-in functions, and life would get very tedious very quickly if you weren’t able to define your own in a script. Let’s take, for example, one of my scripts: BellaBook. BellaBook is a flat file guestbook and so constantly writes to files…. read full entry »

I started to write an entry about an hour ago. I then got sidetracked trying to advise people in the quilting bee IRC, came back to finish it off and upon pressing submit, was presented with a login screen. My fucking session expired. Why the shitting hell I picked session based logins for my admin… read full entry »