Rogue Tory

After nearly two days of solid PHP/MySQL coding, I’ve managed to get my new weblog system into a state where it can be used by the general public. It now supports commenting and displaying of entries by year/month/day/individual entries using some fancy mod_rewrite magic (ok, not that fancy, but it works!) to make the URLs […]

After much deliberation and mulling over specifications, I finally went out and bought the components for a new computer. My flatmate Mike helped me assemble it, and it’s now handling DNS requests for my local network at home in Bury, plus it hosts and provides the DNS for two of my domains. It’s also running […]

Now that I’ve finished for Christmas and have some spare time on my hands, I’ve finally got down to working on my new weblog system properly. Already the main page is done, the archive page is on the way and the pages for individual months/days will use almost exactly the same code and therefore should […]

I’ve just managed to delete my entire Compsoc inbox in one fell swoop by telling mutt to move files from the mail spool to my home directory, and then deleting the mbox file because I thought I’d backed it up. 🙁

I’ve got some spare time this weekend for once (woohoo!), so I’ll hopefully get cracking on my blogging system. I already have the design plotted out and the templating stuff is ready, so it’s mostly a matter of getting posts from the database and letting people comment on entries. I’ll probably write entries directly in […]

We went to the Frog and Bucket in Manchester with Warped tonight, and what a good laugh it was. Some of the acts were absolutely awful (fortunately we had one of the three cards to boo people off) but one or two showed actual comedy talent. Best of all, I managed to win a bottle […]

What a match, with a well-deserved 4-2 victory for England (although in fairness Croatia kept us going right until the last few minutes) pulling back from an initial goal down to go into the quarter finals in style. Once again Rooney’s face will undoubtably be all over the papers tomorrow, and he’s shaping up to […]

Boris Johnson gets frontbench job : Via BBC News Believe it or not, everyone’s favourite bumbling politician has now been promoted to the front bench of the Conservative party. Admittedly it’s only Shadow Minister for Arts, but it can’t be long before he is moving up to the top of the hierachy. Boris for PM! […]

Today myself and my housemates went to our landlord to finally sign the contract for the house we were going to rent for the next year. Unfortunately, when we got there the landlord told us that his son (who is the owner of the house) has got a job in London and wants to sell […]

…25 years ago, on the 4th May, Margaret Thatcher was announced as the new Prime Minister of Great Britain. Undoubtably Nick will come and comment about how those 11 years in power destroyed the economy, put people out of work etc. However, I think she did a damn good job under difficult circumstances and in […]