I've been looking at adding some more features to the greatest PHP CMS around and decided that simple social bookmarking doohickeys would be useful. The idea is to have a little panel in the admin area where you can check which ones you want listed on your page. Straightforward enough so far, right? Nothing groundbreaking or difficult or anything.
It got tricky when I started trying to figure out what sites should be included. It turns out that while I wasn't looking, social bookmarking sites became quite popular. Full points go anyone who can name them all.
I've obviously been reading and writing far too much code recently. I find myself mentally adding markup to my normal conversations. When I say something like "Despite having a sore back, I managed to vacuum the flat.", I mentally wrap an href round "Despite having a sore back", linking it to a previous conversation (usually with someone completely different) so that the interested listener can open that conversation in a background tab and check it out later...
As long as I don't start carrying around a small yellow sign saying 'Digg this', I'll probably recover...
No real surprises there, I just needed to point out that it's now five past one and I started installing IE7 just under 3 hours ago. Three. Hours.
I needed to test some layouts on IE7, I don't trust IE7 enough to not mess up my parallels install so I decided to put it on my development machine in the office in edinburgh via VNC, ran windows update... wait... security updates... wait... restart... windows update... IE7. Yes, install, please. Installing... wait... restart... run IE7.
"Do you want to run the Phishing filter?" No.
"Welcome to IE7. Do you want to run the Phishing Filter?" No.
"Ah, you've opened a new tab. Do you want to run the Phishing Filter?" No.
I go to the site I wanted to test. True enough, it's gebroken.
Click "Developer toolbar".
Crash... wait... restart... run IE7.
Re-download the Developer Toolbar.
"Do you want to run this?" Yes.
"Finished downloading. Do you want to run this?" Yes.
"This program may be unsafe. Do you want run this?" Dear god, if this computer wasn't in a different hemisphere, I'd lamp it one right now.
Run the installer, fail.
Shut down IE7, run the installer again.
Run IE7.
Go to the site again.
"This site may be unsafe, do you want to run the Phishing Filter?"
Log out of VNC. Step away from the computer, spend 10 minutes ranting to nobody in particular. Feel somewhat better.
Just to keep up my current focus on extreme geekery, Dooze (formerly known as "s is small") is now available for download. It's kind of ended up as a CMS for people who could probably write their own if they wanted to but just haven't the time. It's still possible to install, customize and use it without knowing any PHP but there's a bunch more stuff you can do with it if you do.
