Archive For May 20th, 2003

Armalyte

Just found this page while searching for “The Great Giana Sisters”. It brought me back several years! Armalyte was an amazing game, but it wasn’t the only game by Cyberdyne Systems on the C64 AFAIR. I could almost swear I played a platformer that was released on a Zzap64! cover, did they? Woo! Pics, demo [...]

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New SpamAssassin Out!

Version 2.55 of SA is out. The release notes are a bit terse, but the notes for 2.54 indicate this is a release worth installing. It adjusts some spam rules spammers were using to get past SA! spammers have been targeting our nice rules to get themselves negative overall scores, so those rules are now [...]

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b2++ – page freshness, last month? referers

Minor updates: Add the following code to index.tpl to list your weblog entries from a month ago. {todayayearago when=’month’ heading=’<h1>A Month Ago</h1>’} I added headers to the site to make pages stale. Mail me if you notice a difference. Referer format has changed slightly. It requires a db update, so the next release will require [...]

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Breaking News! 1920's grenades found on Pope's Quay!

Owen works on Pope’s Quay, an old part of Cork City. A construction crew found live grenades dating from the 20′s and the Army are about. Lucky there’s a bomb squad stationed in Collin’s Barracks!

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Stupid is as stupid does

Good story Mark! hehe So in his stage managed moment of triumph, the idiot still couldn’t get it right and according to the link above, the same goes for what has become a lawless post-war Iraq, which is quickly descending into anarchy.

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Don't Make Me Think

This is a sample chapter from the new web design book “Don’t Make Me Think”. – “How we really use the Web”. People scan pages, not read.. good reading.

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Mozilla Firebird – more

These forums are full of useful information about Mozilla Firebird. Here’s info about a tab extension. I don’t think it lets you move the location of tabs around, sorry Tim! Here’s my pet peevs about Moz Firebird: Tabs open at the end of the tab list. I like when they open next to the open [...]

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The Selfish Class

Simon pointed me at this document that should make for good reading tomorrow morning. zzzz. I’m off to bed, ‘night!

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b2login, b2comments and cookies

The original b2 had a few bugs with regards to setting cookies – it would set cookies for authentication and comment author information, but without setting a url. This caused problems for Safari users who couldn’t login to their blogs! I’ve modified the setcookies commands so that: Auth information is set only for the blog [...]

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