That T-Engine sounds mad! Computers everywhere talking to each other!
I could bring home my camera after a hard day taking shots only to have the photos transfer by wireless comms to my desktop PC when I drop my bag next to my desk!
When I’ve been working too long at my PC it could order the kettle downstairs to turn on and then chime a bell when the tea’s made!
Ah yes, interesting times ahead!
The slashdot discussion has a few more bits, including a better explanation of why i-Tron is better than past attempts at ubiquitous computing.
Simple MySQL Backup
If, like me, you have a database full of small tables, but all amounting to a large amount of data then dumping the data from it into a single file is handy, but not very useful when it comes to retrieving a backup of one single table.
Instead, wouldn’t it be easier to dump each individual table into it’s own file? What about keeping a week’s worth of backups? Here’s one way I backup my WordPress db with a little Bash script:
export d=`date +%u`
mkdir -p backup/$d
for i in `echo "show tables" | mysql -u username -ppassword database|grep -v Tables_in_`;
do
echo $i; mysqldump --add-drop-table --allow-keywords -q -a -c -u username -ppassword database $i > backup/$d/$i.sql
rm -f backup/$d/$i.sql.gz
gzip backup/$d/$i.sql
done
Ten Things You Can Do Today to Jump-start Success
The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
What’s that mistake? it’s agriculture!
The author makes some laughable connections between unrelated subjects to prove his point.
Anyway, I’m off to catch my breakfast.. I’ll be back in an hour!
Behaviour : Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours
Lurvely! This is a very neat method for removing Javascript from html pages! Embed it in the CSS! (sort of!)
He has a couple of examples on his page, and it looks easy enough in principle. The devil’s in the details don’t you know but it looks like it’s worth trying!
He’s a busy beaver too.. he has an MVC framework and tutorial that steps you through an example.
Naval Ships in Cork Harbour
Today myself, Ryan and AJ went down to see the various naval vessels docked in Cork Harbour.
Ryan has already posted some great photos and here’s some of mine here. The URL will change but I’ll update this post when it does!
I had a great time, the Germans got a great kick out of seeing a crazy photographer lying down on the quay taking snapshots of a coiled rope, but they did pose for a photo afterwards! It’s a pity my camera crashed minutes later and several of my shots were ruined 🙁
Still Drivin'
Spotted in a workshop near College Road a few days ago.
Inverse Kinetiks
This is one weird flash game/anim! Modeling physics is one thing but the subject used. Umm. Strange! (via)
Sit-in at city shop
I went into town this morning and came across this group of protestors on Princes Street. I didn’t know it at the time, but they were employees of O’Donovans Butchers, a 105 year old company with a premises on the street. They had all been let go the previous day. The Evening Echo has more on their front page.
The workers were protesting because they were laid off almost a week early with very little compensation despite many years of service in some cases.
Say Brumbrum Now You Stupid Frog!
(thanks Steph)