Hehe. Missed these photos a few days ago but they’re a scary look at the past!
Author Archives: Donncha
EdgeSaver – Longer Lasting Razor Blades
Someone left a comment here asking if I’d used EdgeSaver and if it worked. I don’t know, but Google does and review after review after review have been positive so I guess there’s something to this product. ‘Course, it could well have been a comment spam but this actually looks useful if it works. Does it?
Update… I asked a chemist friend and his opinion is, “don’t waste your money” as it’s just, “a fancy WD40 – an oil that expels water and essentially air contact (necessary for corrosion of metal) from the surface of the metal so that it cannot corrode through oxidative chemical reaction.”
Any sort of oil-based lubricant can be used but of course it has to be safe, don’t go spreading 3-in-1 or WD40 on your face! It’ll seriously hurt you!
A “food grade oil” is ok, and the ones that immediately spring to mind is sunflower or olive oil. Still not quite comfortable with those either. They’re fine in the frying pan, but in the bathroom?
I must look into essential oils, why not use lavender, rose, or another fragrant oil instead? Lavender oil will relax you too!
Thanks Justin for the above!
Later still… Someone left a comment on the previously commented post saying they, “have been using edgesaver for about a year now and have no regrets of the purchase.” Unfortunately it comes from a very similar IP and the same ISP as the comment that sparked all this off so it’s likely to be a spam attempt. Stick with the olive oil folks!
Ah ha! I’ve confirmed in my own head that this is comment spam, although clever and manual – Follow the links from this search to find the same comments on this post and here too.
Still an interesting idea that the lifetime of blades can be extended by immersing them in oil.
Much later.. Edge Saver have rebranded as RazorMax. I only mention this in case someone doesn’t find this blog entry when they look for the new name!
PEAR Output Cache and WPMU
One of those things PHP doesn’t do well is load large libraries of scripts into memory and parse them quickly. WordPress and Smarty fall firmly into this category and the caching I’ve done so far has only addressed half of this problem: cached pages don’t load any WordPress code, but the heavy Smarty library was still loaded.
I’ve now modified my code to use the PEAR Output Cache and that avoids loading the Smarty templating system. On a heavily loaded server this should make quite a difference to visitors. Things still need tweaking, I may need to introduce a “time” aspect to the cache key as pages could be cached indefinitely but for now it seems to be working really well!
Note to self, please remember that gzip compression upsets PHP’s output buffer. Note to everyone else, don’t set “gzip compression” in the backend or your blog will be foobarred! (Thanks Mel for testing his blog and reporting problems with it!)
Digital Darkroom Forum – Imaging Techniques>Emulating (B&W, IR, filters, etc.) threads
Here’s a forum on photo.net I’m going to keep an eye on. Looks like it’s updated and posted to on a regular basis so hopefully there’ll be a few nice nuggets of info there!
Canon have a great site dedicated to the “The Art of Photography”. It has general photography information beyond Canon blurb so I’ll be reading it!
downTHEMall – Firefox extension
downTHEMall is a great extension for Firefox! Dead handy for downloading links off webpages.
Des Bishop's life
Mad stuff! Comedian Des Bishop has a blog!
(via Gavin)
WPMU Registration Page – alpha quality
Open this file in your browser, download and copy into your wp-inst/ folder as “wp-newblog.php”
Create the following entry in your root .htaccess file too (modify to suit your site):
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-z-]+)/wp-newblog.php(.*) /wp-inst/wp-newblog.php [L]
Call it by going to http:// example.com/main/wp-newblog.php
It’s a very simplistic script, there’s no error checking, it creates a new directory before handing over control to the WordPress install.php
Give it a whirl but when you’re finished be sure to delete it or move it out of the way!
Tsunami Victims Benefit Night
Tsunami Victims Benefit Night
Friday, January 21, 2005
Main Room: Frank & Walters, Stanley Super 800, Fred.
Acoustic Room: Freddy White, John Spillane.
Compere John Creedon. Tickets €20.
Doors 9.30pm. All proceeds go to Tsunami Victims
Cork Musicians Gig for Irish Red Cross Asia Disaster Appeal
The cream of Cork based and native musicians will gather to perform at the Savoy Theatre, on Friday January 21st in aid of the Irish Red Cross Asia Disaster Appeal. The stellar line-up of confirmed artists comprises: The Frank and Walters John Spillane Freddie White Ger Wolfe Fred Niall Connolly Band Gavin Moore The Waiting Room Ian Whitty.
Staged in two rooms at the Savoy, the show will commence at 9.30pm(doors @ 9pm) with tickets available on the door. The ticket price has been set at a minimum donation of EUR20. RTE Radio 1 presenter John Creedon will compere the event. The Savoy Theatre is providing the venue free of charge; so all funds raised on the night will go directly to the Irish Red Cross. Deloitte and Touche, Cork will oversee fundraising and dissemination of all funds raised, on the night.
For further media information, please contact: Margaret O’Brien 086 8055307 or email: mobrien11@eircom.net
Via CorkGigs.com
Li-ion Batteries, care and maintenance
I have a number of batteries including Li-ion batteries for my Sony F717. The Sony batteries have been in continuous use since the summer of 2003 so their lifespan isn’t quite what it used to be. This page suggests that Li-ion batteries, “should be continually topped up! Unlike NiCads you should not let Li-ions run flat as this will effect the life of the battery. Always top them up whenever possible.”
I’m charging mine now just in case!
Cat Herders eds.com Advert
The Cat Herders tv advert for eds.com is very entertaining and funny, especially if you like cats! It’s available for download too so everyone can enjoy it!
Oh, here’s a direct link to the mpeg movie file too!