Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

I’m about halfway through this book, the inspiration for Blade Runner, and it’s a great read! It’s much better than the film, but also quite different!
I’ve actually had the book quite a while – the Waterstones price tag at the back still has the Irish Punt and Euro prices on it, and I’m sorry I didn’t read it earlier.
Go buy it if you haven’t read it yet!

What Linux browser do you use?

Jesse Long is carrying out a survey to find out what browser Linux users use. If you use Linux please visit her site and complete the survey. It’s short, and she’ll be publishing the results soon so get your votes in quick!
A thought occurred to me, she could simply use the browser identification to find out what browser the user is using, and they’ll usually have the OS in there somewhere too.
Update! Jesse mailed me saying it was a short term survey so check the CLUG archives for the url if you want to do it!

Are you a geek or a nerd?

Ryan Tubridy rattled on at length about being a nerd this morning, much to the amusement I’m sure of many of his listeners. Of course, he has no idea what the difference is between a geek and a nerd, and when someone mentioned Unix and Linux the poor fella sputtered and guessed that “Linus Paul” was the creater of Linux. I wonder did anyone text in with the correct answer? *grin*

Smarty editor and theme chooser for WordPress

I’ve ported the Smarty template editor and theme chooser from here to WordPress. It’s available to download as a tarball.
Warning! This is highly experimental code. It will nuke your current WP installation so install it on a testing server. It’s not ready for public consumption, it’ll give you food poisoning, it’ll make bad things happen, it’ll cause massive problems for the .. oh, just try it on a test server, don’t use it on a production server at all.
Here’s the mail I sent to wp-dev last night:

What this adds:
1. Smarty template aware editor. This editor makes automatic backups of your template. To restore a previously edited template just click 1-5 next to the template name and save that template again. It’s a FIFO queue..
2. Template picker/chooser. The default WP template is there as well as “Blue Dash” that I did for b2++. Click on the “Use this theme” link to use the selected theme.
3. Smarty is included, so you don’t need to download that if you haven’t got it.

Anyway, here’s what you do with this lot:
1. Don’t install this over your current live WP installation as it’s only for testing!
2. Download the tarball. It creates a wp directory so move stuff around if you have to. Files should be overwritten, so backup, backup, backup!
3. In the wp-blogs/main directory you’ll want to chmod 777 the templates_c smartycache templates directories and chmod 666 templates/*
Fire up your browser and point it at your WP install!

cd wp-blogs/main/
chmod 777 templates_c smartycache templates
chmod 666 templates/*

Happy New Year!

Welcome all to 2004! Had a great night (certainly better than last year!), and was able to drive home, as I wasn’t drinking. I just hope that sweet girl who started chatting to me doesn’t carry out her threat.. Her boyfriend of 3 years is at sea tonight, he didn’t ring, and she’s upset. She’s an embalmer so she can hide the evidence when he comes home in a week and she kills him! *lol*
And to those of you still in 2003, 2004 has had a great start! Woohoo!

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