Anger at move to restrict FoI Act

Here’s why the techies on ILUG didn’t get excited about the Government’s plan to restrict the Freedom of Information act:

  1. It came just a week after the data retention fiasco. There’s only so much ranting and raving one can do, even the ILUG! People are bored of politics.
  2. The FOI Act deals with data that most people just don’t care about in their day to day life. The data retention policy directly applies to me because I go online at home. Do I have any issue with the Governement that I need “secret” information to persue? No, of course not, but if you are concerned about the running of the Government then the FOI Act is important. In a perfect democracy all citizens would be concerned citizens..

MUD Players – us raid on iraq

What if mudders planned a war on Iraq?

US: Ok, putting together RvR group for Iraq raid… who’s in?
Turkey: Only if someone makes me new armor. Last Iraq raid I lost money on
US: *sigh* Ok, can’t build you the new armor, but I’ll help pay for it. How
much you need.
Turkey: 6 Plat.
US: WTF?! You’re not building the armor out of platinum, ya tard.. no
frikking way.

Cork LUG – b2 and Smarty mod

I finally released the source of this blog. There are always so many small things to do when source code is released. Actually creating the application is simple. Afterwards, you have to write documentation, create a web page or update one, create and upload a tarball, the list goes on.
If there’s bugs, so be it. I’ll get around to fixing those when I can, but right now it’s good enough!

Fonts, fonts, fonts

Did you notice? I updated my style sheet this morning and changed from an absolute font size to a variable one: font-size: 11px; became font-size: 90%;
Does the site look better in your browser? In Galeon on my machine at home there’s a marked improvement, but IE and Mozilla on a Windows box here suffers a bit. Did you notice?

b2 and Smarty source release

I’m busy working away at the first release of the source running this site. As you probably know it’s based on b2 modified to use the Smarty template system.
Right now, the install.sh script works nicely, it copies the files into the destination dir, changes permissions on some files and tells you what url to load to finish installation. The only thing missing now is a server capable of running PHP scripts!
I’m doing an apt-get upgrade and it’s sucking down 23MB of rpms from heanet, and over dialup that takes a while. Should have php support back afterwards though!