Here’s a small fix to fix a big mod_rewrite rules bug. URLs like this, http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/2005/01/06/2004-indian-ocean-earthquake-wikipedia/, won’t load properly as mod_rewrite gets confused between the date of the post and the year in the title. Here’s a quick fix:
Open the .htaccess file in your root directory and replace each occurance of ^(.*)
with ^([_0-9a-z-]+)
Thanks to Kae and Darragh for spotting that.
The latest CVS update broke post editing a bit, an extra field was added. Here’s how to update your blog if you’re using it:
cd wp-inst/wp-content/blogs; for i in *; do echo "ALTER TABLE wp_"$i"_posts ADD menu_order INT( 11 ) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL" | mysql wpdb ;done
gometric.ie :: Countdown to Metric speed limits
gometric.ie is the Irish Government’s site to inform the public that speed signs will be going metric on January 20th! It’s accompanied by a mailing campaign and advertising on radio and television so hopefully the message will get through to everyone!
“Ugh! Yeah officer, I saw the sign. It says 50mph in this area.”
From 20th January it’s kilometres for speed as well as distance.
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami- Wikipedia
Here’s the Wikipedia entry for the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake including links to blogs and sites with footage and first person commentary. I just watched a video of the wave hitting in Patong Beach and it’s scary – the water just kept on coming and coming until cars floated down the street…
Search Switzerland!
20D in the dark
Garret took a photo in near dark at ISO 1600 using his Canon 20D and didn’t see any banding and very little noise. Picture came out great! Me wants, me wants, me wants!
My Meteor – why don't you work in Firefox?
There’s only 3 mobile phone companies in Ireland, Vodafone, O2 and Meteor. I’ve been a customer of each and am currently with Meteor. That might change however as their newly redesigned meteor.ie website doesn’t work properly in Firefox. They offer 300 free texts from their site but when one hits the “SEND” button nothing happens.
If you’re a Meteor user mail info@meteor.ie with your phone number and your PIN, or 3 phone numbers you’ve rung in the past month (for verification).
Ask them politely to fix their website so it works in Mozilla Firefox! The Javascript error I get is,
Error: window.smsForm has no properties
Source File: https://www.mymeteor.ie/mymeteor/phone_book/send_sms.cfm
Line: 295
Oh, and last time I checked, Vodafone’s website offers 300 texts a month and it did work in Firefox.
Later – Niall suggested entering your text message, phone number, and instead of hitting “SEND” copy and paste the following code into the URL address bar and press return: javascript:window.document.smsForm.submit();
Now how hard is that for Meteor to fix?
Before and After the 2004 Tsunami
This is an awful image! Look at the destruction!
Oristus stuff – make money, profits and userss, podcast usability
Lots of Stories..
Sheesh! I take a few days off and the rest of the world comes up with great articles and content that I just have to read! No consideration eh? 🙂
- Top Digital Camera Newbie Mistakes to Avoid
- Cold Weather Photo Survival Guide – the worst that happened to me is coming into a warm pub – the UV filter on my camera clouded over. Easily fixed.
- Digital camera users still turn to pros for prints – I’ll more than likely always get my photos printed by a shop or online store. Last night while shopping in Tesco I noticed a photo kiosk by the main door. Prints were priced at EUR0.50 each. That’s not a great price, but as an impulse buy it might tempt me to part with some cash.
- I have a number of photos on shutterstock, and even made a few sales! The US$75 minimum payout is troubling and blueneedle has more on this. Might move elsewhere if I can earn a few dollars a month!
- halftone effect – nice
- Urban Perspectives – nice shot, I’ll be in Chicago in May!
Via Photography Blog and delicious
Lazio's Workflow
This is a nice effect although some of the controls are different or missing in the GIMP. I don’t think there’s a key-combo to “select bright areas” of a photo in the GIMP is there? I’ll post an example later if I have time!