Via IRC, this brief history of squatting in Dublin.
Saddam's mouthpiece 'seeks surrender'
It looks like the Americans Won’t arrest Comical Ali!
US President George W Bush has admitted that he enjoyed Mr Sahhaf’s briefings so much that he used to interrupt some of his meetings just to watch him.
His son is working in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, where he’s earned the nickname “Surgical Ali”.
‘My father is a good guy. He is a very friendly guy,’ he said. ‘He knows he is responsible for his own decisions but, as a father, he is a very good man.’
b2++ 0.5
New release last night! This one fixes more install bugs, adds plugin support and with the plugins I’ve been talking about here over the last few days! It’s probably better if you download the src and data packages, as there’s been a few updates to the templates. Go download it!
Google Search: zs Spam Art xv Nathan cz McCoy xz vc
And in honour of all the search highlighting going on here, This guy had way too much time on his hands when he posted this message!
Search term highlighting on my site
Keith posted about his efforts to highlight Google search terms. This is interesting! I may be able to create a b2-prefunction that does the same for b2++.
Update! I modified my original highlightsearch() function, adding in most of the code found on textism.org which also fixes the problem of highlighting text inside html links! Woo!
Here’s a Google search for you to try. Hit the Holy Shmoly link to see the highlighted text!
Again, if you want to add this to your own blog, just edit post.tpl add add the highlightsearch modifier around $the_content:
{$the_content|highlightsearch}
You’ll then have access to lots of highlighted search results!
Ram Doubler for Linux!
Kernel Traffic reports that some people are working on compressing RAM instead of swapping it out. This is like the old Quarterdeck RAM Doubler on Win95 so long ago. Results are mixed however, and I even remember on Win95 the technique didn’t make much of a difference either in “real life” situations.
Phoenix / Firebird – the new Mozilla
Prompted by Simon’s posting last night I tried the nightly build of Phoenix. It’s nice, very nice in fact. It feels a lot more responsive than Mozilla or Galeon, but in the latter case, that could be because I have a dozen tabs open..
Fonts don’t look as nice, but maybe there’s ways to force it to use the nice new sans fonts Galeon’s been using on my machine? I don’t know, and haven’t got time this morning to check. Worth a look at though!
Meatloaf on 2fm
hehe.. Meatloaf is on 2fm right now talking to Ryan Tubridy in another mad interview. Go listen to it, but be quick because his show is over at 9am!
Related Stories in b2++
It doesn’t work perfectly yet but I’ve integrated the related stories hack into b2++. Just add {$relatedstories} to your post.tpl to display them! Note: it only displays related stories when one story is displayed, such as here.
Serendipity
This is a nice looking weblog system! Nice ideas, and screenshots are attractive!