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  • 16 Sep 2023

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  • 28 Jun 2008

    How to hose your website...

    ...in several easy steps.

    1: Have a too-clever-for-its-own-good CMS that is child-like in its simplicity yet Canadian-lumber-forest-like in its ability to be hacked.
    2: Build several different websites using said CMS, each with their own unique hacks.
    3: Have all the sites open in your FTP client and in your text editor
    4: Play an episode of Firefly in the background to distrct you.

    Now, the next few steps must be done in very quick succession:

    5: Upload files from site A to site B
    6: Realise mistake, download replacements from site C
    7: Upload replacements to site D
    8: Realise mistake, reset Subversion backup C
    9: Upload site C to site A
    10: Watch River Tam kick ass
    11: Realise you're getting confused, delete everything and start again
    12: Delete Subversion backup B
    13: Delete entire project B

    Now that you've done that, all that's left is to put everything back the way it was on A, C and D and trawl old backup disks and Google cached pages to try and get B back.

    14: Watch Mal shoot someone.
    15: Write it up in a post on the freshly-restored, looks-like-it-was-never-broken site B.

    Fairly straightforward, really.

  • 22 Jun 2008

    Again with the Barber stories...

    Regular readers will, of course, remember my previous experiences with my Japanese barber. Well, I started to look like some kind of scruffy hippie again so I braved the rain, grabbed the infamous umbrella and headed out for another haircut. This time, I decided to go the whole hog and find out what the full shave-and-a-haircut experience was like.

    He shaved my forehead.

    My forehead! Shaved! With a cut-throat razor! Exclamation mark!11One!Factorial

    I was so busy being shocked that I only just noticed he followed it by shaving my earlobes. I'm now hairless in places that have had hair since before I was born.

    I don't really have any conclusion to take from it other than - He Shaved My Forehead...

  • 13 Jun 2008

    Noodle Firefox Extension

    You can either download the Noodle Firefox extension from the Mozilla Addons Site (recommended but requires registration) or below.

    Noodle Firefox extension [1.0.5].

    If you download from the Mozilla site, you can leave a review and increase the chance it'll get accepted into the public area (no registration required).

    It has been tested with Firefox 2 and 3. Surprisingly, it also works fine with both of them, too.

    Geek

  • 10 Jun 2008

    Stormy weather

    Stormy weather

    I was out on my balcony last night taking photos of the moody stormy weather.

    It turns out lightning isn't quite so pretty when you see it up close. Click through the picture to see more.

    Photos

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