Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Ok, time for a moan about Friends Reunited. First of all, it’s moving heavily over to a paid model. Every single page tells you, you need to get out your wallet.

More annoying, it asks you for your password every page! It’s not good enough you have logged in once, you have to re-enter your password every time you want to edit anything. You don’t have to do that when entering bank details or PayPal transactions, let alone seeing which high school drop-outs learned to use a computer.

Finally, the yearing system is just confusing because what year do you put down? I would say when I left sixth-form, everyone else in my year put down GCSE year. How about the people who left half way through sixth-form? What they should do is register the year you started there.

Finally when I tried the search at the top I just got a blank page each time. Also there are too many adverts on that site. Rant over. For the moment.

Wow has this been the longest day. It seems forever ago since I made some of the previous posts but they were made this morning. I’ve finally made the permalinks static mainly because I want to link one of the posts which I will soon be made :P.

You know, it’s just occured to me I haven’t got static URLs sorted.

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.