Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Yay! I returned to my installation of Community Server (the ASP.net thing) and it works! I was never able to do it before as every time I tried to post I got an error but now (for no apparent reason) it works! Have a play around yourself with the script on Avril forums.

Oh shit. Have a read through this. 3 in 4 Brits would trade their civil liberties for better security. And suddenly Enemy of the State isn’t such a fictional movie any more. The major flaw in democracy is often that the biggest voice is that of the idiot.

Word of the day: vicarious. I was trying to think of it the other day. One of Lucas’s friends uses it on the pilot of

I have re-discovered my love of blogging. Making quick posts when I have anything to say. Like for instance now I am downloading PHP 4.4.0 and while I wait I have some advice to offer up. I wanted to get GD working but I have no extentions. I have a theory it may be because when I originally downloaded it I went for the package without extentions? Maybe, although I do have MySQL support. Whichever though, times like this tell you, you should go for the biggest package as you never know when things will come up.

I had the same problem when I downloaded Dot Net Nuke. I downloaded one package but it was missing all the documentation (I didn’t realise this at the time). If in doubt go for the package with the most features as you may find you want them later.

It’s bad enough the file editor in cPanel adds blank lines to the bottom of your files which stops any files lower down from sending header information because the blank lines count as output, but it doesn’t even tell you when you are editing a read-only file. It will actually tell you the changes have been saved when in fact they haven’t because it’s chmod’ed 444.

In line with my new policy to promote over produce I am doing some directory performance testing. First a little history: some time ago I stopped myself creating new celeb fansites due to the fact it takes me about an hour per day updating them with news. I actually have one almost done (it’s been done for months) but I’m not launching it. Palmetto Pointe Fans doesn’t count because, cease the day, you know ;).

I think, if I’m putting this time into the sites they should generate more traffic than they currently do so my efforts are now going into promoting. With that in mind I have submited different sites to many different directories to performance test them. Each directory has a different site so we will see how it goes with each and the one that provides it’s site with the most benifit (or all if they all do well) I will submit all my sites there.

The roof toilet in Scrubs is awesome. But anyway yeah I had an epiphany in the shower, I was thinking of how to solve a problem which I was using loop for, wasn’t working, then I realised the answer was a function.

It’s for Particle Links which problems are cropping up in. I thought I had tested it enough, apparently not. There are a few errors that are creeping in which sucks. I have a new version coming out soon so hopefully, I can stamp on all these bugs then.

I was never a fan of CNet taking over TV Tome and turning it into TV.com. I’m not alone either, I know people have been complaining about how long it takes to get stuff moderated – people who previously were editors of a show and now have to wait for CNet’s team to approve everything.

I’m in the same position. I submitted a quote back on August 2nd, that’s over 2 weeks ago, 2 and a half weeks ago and it still hasn’t been approved. They are going to end up like Dmoz.

Yahoo! Buffy Talk has finally hit the 500 members mark. Important mark as it is the over the hill status of the first 250-500 members which are the hardest to get when building a community (then it’s easy-ass to get them :P). It actually happened last night I think. I’ve been busy trying to sort my accommodation ;).

Finally got stats logging at least half fixed for Olsen Twins Planet. There is still information missing, namely the dailys before August 12th and information for the visits and page views but uniques seems to be intact.

Uniques so far in August: 11,000! That is hot. Rawice at it’s peak was doing something like 15,000 a month and we are only on the 19th. It’s mostly people looking for pictures but traffic is traffic. Might get rid of AdSense and put a graphic advertiser on there, need to review my AdSense reports.