Where were the cats this morning?
27 July 2007
Continuing an irregular blog theme, when I got out of bed this morning I found cats in the following places:
Cat 2 (Sproingy) was asleep on the windowsill in the bedroom, looking rather cramped alongside Emma’s hair-straightening thingy.
Cat3 (Scampy) and her kittens were in their box in the spare room.
Cat 1 (Slinky) was on the office chair in my study.
Triffle
24 July 2007
While the Friday Fun website is offline for redevelopment, I’ve moved most of the jokes it contained to a new home at www.triffle.org. It seemed a bit pointless to have a huge database of stuff just sitting around doing nothing, so I’ve thrown together a cheap and cheeerful website using a freeware CSS template and some re-used code from Friday Fun to display them.
Kittens!
12 July 2007
The number of small furry animals in my household doubled on 10th July 2007, as cat 3 gave birth to cats 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3. You can see the inevitable photos in the photo gallery.
Back online
15 June 2007
I’ve moved the pleasegivemeone website to a new server and got it running again.
The cat has gone, by the way, so that’s no longer a motivation for giving.
Photo gallery
13 June 2007
I’ve installed Gallery2 on the server so that I’ve got somewhere to put all my interesting photos :-) I’ve linked it to the blog by means of some custom customisation, rather than using the WPG2 plugin - I found that the plugin wasn’t really working very well, and I don’t need the link it provides between the user databases as I’m the only user of both the blog and the gallery.
Instead, I’ve just customised the G2 theme to be essentially the same as the blog theme, and fiddled around with the Apache config to handle the URL rewrites rather than using .htaccess files. This has the advantage of being more flexible, but the disadvantage is that I’ll need to change both sections if/when I ever update the blog theme. Also, Wordpress doesn’t seem to have an option for not using .htaccess - if I delete it, it tries to put it back, with disastrous results. So I have to have a dummy .htaccess in there that looks as though it’s doing something but isn’t. I suspect that things may break if I ever change anything on the G2 config as well, but that’s another issue.
Anti-spam
13 June 2007
I’ve added a simple CAPTCHA element to the comment submission form. Hopefully, it will cut down on the number of spam comments I have to delete.
British surnames
1 June 2007
I’ve moved the British Surnames website to a new domain: www.britishsurnames.co.uk (kind of obvious, really). It’s also had a bit of a redesign, and a few new and somewhat funky features added.
09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
9 May 2007
I’m just wondering if I’ll get a call from the lawyers because of this.
In case anyone isn’t aware of the significance of these numbers and letters, this is the infamous AACS key which sparked a huge storm at Digg.
Where were the cats this morning?
26 April 2007
As I left for work, cats 1 and 2 were sprawled on the floor near the bathroom door,where the sun shines through the window. One of them woke up when I went to fetch the camera, but the other was still there and I got this snap of it.
Cat 3 was outside when I left the house, and jumped up onto the garden table in the hope of getting a fuss before I got into the car. I took a photo of that one as well.
I’m NOT A fashion victim
23 April 2007
There’s been a lot of media coverage lately of Anya Hindmarch’s “I’m not a plastic bag” bag. It seems that some people will pay over £100 for one of these on eBay.
All this seems like another way of ripping off fashion victims - the type of people who will pay over the odds just for the right name on the label. So I’ve created a t-shirt design for anyone who feels that they want to proclaim the fact that a designer bag isn’t what turns them on. You can buy a copy through my Spreadshirt shop.
While this is obviously just my cynical attempt to cash in on the latest craze, it would be rather fun to see these out on the streets.
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