It’s one of those things everyone should have but nobody wants to think about, until it’s too late in some cases! A representative from the Pensions Board was on the radio this morning reminding people to look into pensions!
Apparently you can get half of what you contribute to a pension back in tax relief! That’s something I must look into in the next year or two.
Author Archives: Donncha
C64 Python!
Ooh! Cool! Python on the C64! including a screenshot of the interpreter working. Must download and play with this! hehe.
Spammers have been busy!
The spammers were busy last night and this morning! I received some 20 comment spams and notifications are still coming in. So, now when you go into the comment moderation page, when you “delete” comments, they actually are deleted from the database now.
To delete old comment spams simply open up the “Deleted Comments” page and hit “Submit All”.
So, to the spammers.. don’t bother. You’re not going to get through here!
Later.. On suggestions from Pronnsias I modified the Comment Validation page further and put the comments inside textareas, and added links to the New, OK and Delete header fields. Clicking on them will auto-select the associated checkboxes. A Javascript error occurs but it still seems to work, in Mozilla at least.
Later still.. Until the storm of comment spam drops off, notification emails are disabled. Check the Comment Moderation link during the day if you see comment number increase during the day!
One for later reading – Bayesian inference using PHP
This is for later reading. This article might be useful if I want to do any “artificial intelligence” programming in PHP.
Switching from PHP to Zope/Python
Now here’s an interesting discussion on kuro5hin.org
I’ve always wanted to look at Zope, as it’s based on Python I thought it’d offer me lovely OO programming and fast development. Reading some of the comments here I have to wonder, especially in light of Russell’s rant about the complexity of Java. (Picked up by Keith who might be a deceptive right-wing troll but he writes some good techie stuff!)
But then I think there’s room for both types – pure computer scientists who will most likely drive future ideas, and those that get the job done in the real world.
b2++ usage?
It looks like iTools 7 for Mac OS X & Mac OS X Server is using or at least shipping b2++ as one of their “new extentsions to make websites easier”. It sits alongside such well-known stalwarts as Gallery and phpBB2 and PHP-Nuke! (Thanks Mark for the link!)
Comreg Survey "Do You Want Cheaper and Better Quality Broadband In Ireland?"
Go on and fill out this survey before April 21st! I wonder what do they expect people to answer? “No!” I’d put this in the humour section except that Blarney hasn’t got broadband yet so it’s no joke to me! More on boards.ie and thanks to Stewie @ #linux for the link.
Later… It seems that it’s specifically for wholesale sellers of broadband. It may not help the cause much if they get a lot of replies from the small guys, no matter how strongly we feel on the subject!
Obtaining Maximum Sharpness
Mike Spinak has written several articles on photo.net. He’s linked from the main page and is about obtaining maximum sharpness in your pictures. Excellent stuff. Must read some of his older articles too!
GHOST TOWN
While slashdot, the world and his dog have already seen this story I only looked through it this morning. It’s a photo-essay following several journies into the Dead Zone around Chernobyl. Aide Roche publicizes the plight of the people in that area through her charity work here in Cork and elsewhere but to see such personal photographic evidence brings it to another level again.. All the lives ruined and changed and memories left behind. It’s very sad.
The Passivator – Improve Your Writing!
This bookmarklet looks interesting. The Passivator is described as, “A passive verb and adverb flagger for Mozilla-derived browsers, Safari, and Opera 7.5, with caveats.”
Running it on my this page shows a disturbing number of blue and yellow boxes, but reading over the highlighted text again is enlightening. (via Simon)