Monthly Archives: August 2004 - Page 2

connectivity hiccups

Big rain.

Big boom.

Big flash.

No data.

Not my wiring for once, either: the Green Box up the road left the land of the living for a while, and the power is still on the fritz, so it’s all in the laps of the battery lifetime gods at the moment, and could be patchy for the rest of today.

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hmm, are these stories related ?

BBC NEWS | Health | Prozac ‘found in drinking water’: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3545684.stm

BBC NEWS | UK | Blunkett defends terror secrecy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3545600.stm

Perhaps they need to up the dose of Prozac before Blunkett either doesn’t get asked these questions, or calms down a bit trying to answer them…

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BBC NEWS | England | Diamond made of ashes set as ring

BBC NEWS | England | Diamond made of ashes set as ring: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3544076.stm

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blocking odd ‘comment only’ posts

For some reason, visitors to this site seem to love clicking on one or more smiley faces and then sending it as a comment. I’ve no idea why, except perhaps that they feel my site doesn’t have enough images, but if you’d like to have a little more information to go on before deciding to approve/decline the comment then adding the following lines to wp-comments-post.php will help.

Basically, the poster has to put something in one of the three fields besides the comment for it to be considered for approval – no it’s not foolproof, but I’d like to see at least a name to go on before deciding if the icon-only post is relevant, or the result of some random clickage)

For WordPress 1.2, add these lines after line 44 (or, more helpfully, after the line that says die( __('Error: please type a comment.') );

if (('' == $email) && ('' == $author) && ('' == $url))
        die( __('Error: please enter more than just your comment.') );
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yay, but is it good news ?

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | Daleks back to fight Doctor Who: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3535588.stm

It’s good to see that both sides could reach an agreement, but I’m worried about the script – the series is supposed to be broadcast next year, and in my naive little world I would have assumed that such basic items as, say the scripts had been written and were in the process of being revised and shot.

Is it going to be a simple bolt-on-the-daleks episode ?

Have the BBC had them in all along and were just holding off until the legal wrangling settled (hoping it was in their favour) ?

Am I hopelessly optimistic about the time spent on the story, and writing a 6 or 8 episode series takes mere weeks, and filming slightly less ?

Hmm…

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