Well, they’re singing at the Eurovision, but they almost got kicked for not showing up for rehearsals!
Hmm.. Owen, we have to find a pub with a tv showing the contest 🙂
Author Archives: Donncha
Armalyte
Just found this page while searching for “The Great Giana Sisters”. It brought me back several years! Armalyte was an amazing game, but it wasn’t the only game by Cyberdyne Systems on the C64 AFAIR. I could almost swear I played a platformer that was released on a Zzap64! cover, did they?
Woo! Pics, demo downloads and information about Armalyte 2 and a link to download a “competition” version with built in trainer.. I would have loved to have seen this 10 years ago..
New SpamAssassin Out!
Version 2.55 of SA is out. The release notes are a bit terse, but the notes for 2.54 indicate this is a release worth installing. It adjusts some spam rules spammers were using to get past SA!
spammers have been targeting our nice rules to get themselves negative overall scores, so those rules are now much less strongly-scored. also added a “TOO_MANY_MUA” rule that will catch multiple user agent headers.
Go download it now!
b2++ – page freshness, last month? referers
Minor updates:
- Add the following code to index.tpl to list your weblog entries from a month ago.
{todayayearago when='month' heading='<h1>A Month Ago</h1>'} - I added headers to the site to make pages stale. Mail me if you notice a difference.
- Referer format has changed slightly. It requires a db update, so the next release will require upgrading users run upgrade.php
- Search pages are generated with a different Smarty key. This should remove any highlighting for users who come directly to this site.
- I fixed a small html bug in the lastupdated.php script. If URLs aren’t printed properly on the “Last updated” list, then change line 33 so it reads:
$smarty->assign( "site", "http://" . $basesite ); - Added a list of clickable smilies to b2edit. Click to add them to your blog post! 8)
Breaking News! 1920's grenades found on Pope's Quay!
Owen works on Pope’s Quay, an old part of Cork City. A construction crew found live grenades dating from the 20’s and the Army are about. Lucky there’s a bomb squad stationed in Collin’s Barracks!
Stupid is as stupid does
Good story Mark! hehe
So in his stage managed moment of triumph, the idiot still couldn’t get it right and according to the link above, the same goes for what has become a lawless post-war Iraq, which is quickly descending into anarchy.
Don't Make Me Think
This is a sample chapter from the new web design book “Don’t Make Me Think”. – “How we really use the Web”.
People scan pages, not read.. good reading.
Mozilla Firebird – more
These forums are full of useful information about Mozilla Firebird. Here’s info about a tab extension. I don’t think it lets you move the location of tabs around, sorry Tim!
Here’s my pet peevs about Moz Firebird:
- Tabs open at the end of the tab list. I like when they open next to the open tab.
- When you drag a link to the “Personal Toolbar”, there’s no indication you can drop it there (no arrow, indented button space..)
- I don’t like the image resizing, but that can be disabled.
- No “Exit with Session” or even session support!
- No “Up” button to go up a directory/filename.
Still, I think it’ll replace Galeon as my primary browser now that I have nice fonts again 🙂
The Selfish Class
b2login, b2comments and cookies
The original b2 had a few bugs with regards to setting cookies – it would set cookies for authentication and comment author information, but without setting a url. This caused problems for Safari users who couldn’t login to their blogs!
I’ve modified the setcookies commands so that:
- Auth information is set only for the blog address – ie. /xeer/ for this blog
- Comment author information is set for the whole b2 site. You won’t have to keep entering your personal details to comment on other blogs once you’ve commented once on any particular site.
That’s the idea anyway. Leave a comment here if you discover any bugs with that.