Exams, the pain almost every single one of us had to go through at one point or another. Sat twiddling the end of a pencil whilst waiting for that first half hour to tick by, so you can leave without having a clue? Or did you go for the same method as these students and try to make your examiner smile?

If this works I should have managed to post to the WordPress Category in my blog. This isn’t setup as a cron job yet as I want to test it thoroughly first!!!

I’ve fancied doing this for sometime, the ability to forward stuff via email to my blog will prove really useful – but even more important was the ability to add some photos via email! According to the WordPress Plugins page, John Blade‘s plugin was the place to start, unfortunately I could find no link to it on his blog Further searching revealed on the WordPress Site, that Economy Size Geek had taken over development and renamed the plugin, Postie. I shall be installing this later today!

No, I don’t want somebody to write them for me (although it would be very nice!), I want to speed up my development time sometimes. I get bogged down in the code and could do with sorting that problem. So I’m having a look at a few things that might help this, any advice anyone has on any them is appreciated (I’ve opened up comments, but you’ll still have to register). The Gubed PHP Debugger is Free and looks useful. dBQwikSite looks like it could spit out PHP & MySQL sites all day long, the licence is up in the $150 region, but that’s probably not out of the ballpark for what I want! Might download a trial of this… Continue reading »

As most people who know me will know, I’m quite a big fan of Chris Moyles. He just makes me laugh, I wish I had time to listen to the full show, but it’s invariably in the car on the way to work (watching other drivers around me try not to fall about laughing – you can always tell a fellow Moyles listener!) and then I’m either: Too Busy Daren’t listen on headphones for fear of laughing out loud! This morning was no different, but the fact that Chris and Aled will be on Supermarket Sweep tomorrow just make me laugh… 5.30ish I think they said – must set the Sky+ box? Even if just to find out how much… Continue reading »

Apparently I can’t have Vista (not that I was considering it until it stabilised anyway!!!), but according to the Windows Vista Upgrade Chart I fall at the final hurdle and must win the lottery before I’m allowed to upgrade

One of the British national daily newspapers is asking readers “what it means to be British?”. Some of the emails are hilarious but this is one from a chap in Switzerland .. “Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV. And the most British thing of all? Suspicion of anything foreign.”