Archive for 2006

RIP James Brown, the Godfather of Soul.
(posted as I have my pre-pressie-opening coffee - Happy Christmas.)

Work’s been pretty hectic these last few months (actually the whole year’s been really busy), so it’s a relief to say “That’s it, no more work until 2007!”. As of 5.30pm today we’re officially on holiday, and will only be responding to client emergencies (our definition of emergencies, not theirs - crashed servers or compromised [...]

I’ve spent the evening playing with ArtRage 2, a great little painting application which I discovered via Bzangy Groink. It’s purely a painting program as opposed to a Photoshop wannabe, and does a brilliant job of creating paint effects.
Thick paint smears and blends, pencils and chalks smudge, and markers work just like they do in [...]

I managed to get away from London last weekend to do a bit of long-overdue catching up with friends. I took my iBook with me so I could get a couple of hours work done on the train, in between enjoying the complimentary drinks and muffins in first class (not because I’m too stuck up [...]

I migrated our the last of our clients’ sites onto the new server this morning, so now that’s out of the way I hope to find the time to finish off World of Badger very, very soon ( as handy as this spell-check-as-you-type feature in Firefox 2 is, it’s not very self-aware - it’s offering [...]

After the ‘all work and no play’ nature of the last month, I decided to treat myself to an 8 gig iPod nano. Bloomin’ lovely it is too. I actually bought it from John Lewis rather than Apple, having stumbled across Hot UK Deals’s voucher and discount codes page (yes, I know it sounds like [...]

In case you’re wondering why things have gone quiet again, it’s because I’ve been working on the new look for the site on my local server. The layout and typography is pretty much done, but I’ve not quite decided on the colour scheme yet. A similar green to the previous look is a strong contender, [...]

The next step, moving World of Badger to the new server, went without a hitch (well, apart from the 20 minute period this morning between changing the nameservers and remembering to actually run the SQL to populate the new database with the old content!). As for the problem of Wordpress incorrectly showing zero posts under [...]

Please excuse the plain Jane look. I’ve switched from b2evolution to Wordpress, and won’t be jazzing up the default look until I move the site to a new server (same URL though - see below). There will inevitably be a few broken links (I suspect the RSS link is different) but hopefully not too many. [...]

Well, don’t want to speak to soon, but the migration from b2evolution 0.92 to Wordpress 2.0.4 seems to have gone smoothly (apart from the categories not showing the correct number of posts - there are actually 532 posts in 8 cats, not 240 posts in 3 cats as it’s reporting - but they are still [...]

For once I actually have a decent excuse for not having posted lately — work has been completely hectic, and to be honest I’ve felt totally drained.
A couple of weeks ago, in the early hours of the morning, there was a big power outage at the data centre that’s home to our main server (and [...]

I’m still wondering quite why the BBC broadcast The Path to 9/11, given how controversial it has proved to be (see Washington Post article). Defective Yeti has compiled a list of a few minor errors and inconsistencies in the docu-drama, including:
The finale, in which Bush crashes Airforce One into a remote Afghan stronghold, emerges unscathed [...]

Easy to overlook amidst the wall-to-wall images of Bush gurning in front of patriotic backdrops and the numerous docu-dramas on TV (including the rather revisionist ‘The Path to 9/11′ made by dodgy right-wingers that the BBC is currently airing), but September 11th also marks another anniversary: the 33rd anniversary of Pinochet’s US-backed military coup against [...]