Archive For January, 2004
Sometimes there’s a story behind photographs, and Michael relates an experience he had one morning finding that story. I hesitated before linking to this as I think that “finding the story” could also be the curse of photography. Michael spent so much time looking for great shots that he may have missed enjoying a beautiful [...]
I’ve just added a blacklist to the b2++ referer system. It’s fairly simple. If you see an evil referer appearing on your page simply go to the referer admin page, select the checkbox next to that URl and hit the “Add To Blacklist” button. I’ve briefly tested it and it seems to work fine, but [...]
I can’t believe it. It’s a year since Spring died. I remember the day like it was yesterday. I took her for a walk in the morning, and we played with her, throwing sticks for her to fetch, or running after her out on the green until shortly before the vet called to the house. [...]
As I mentioned previously, Zac went missing on Saturday. Mel sent me a text last night with 3 words I was hoping to hear, “Zac is back.” Zac was sleeping on a neighbour’s window sill for the 2 nights he was missing and the owners saw the notice in the local shop and got in [...]
A few days ago I reported on 2 car accidents in which 5 people lost their lives. Justin provided a comparision between Ireland and the USA WRT car accidents. Here in Ireland, it makes the news when someone dies on the roads, and that makes people more aware of the dangers of road travel. There [...]
The latest updated local-rules.procmail from John Hardin has a rule to catch the new NovArg worm. The worm is caught by his security script anyway, but this Procmail recipe identifies the worm. Update! It seems that the worm uses files with the .zip extension to transmit itself. These aren’t mangled by default so it’s probably [...]
While in Chicago I continued my favourite past time of browsing in book shops. I don’t remember the shop itself but it was on the corner of State and Randolph I think where I purchased a DAW Books 30th Anniversary Science Fiction Collection. I’m half way through it now and it’s a great read, Tad [...]
Argh! Vodafone.ie doesn’t like Mozilla Firebird! I tried to change my tariff from the awfully expensive one it was at. (set a year ago, and forgot to change, it’s not even available now!) Using Moz FB I get the following error: You have selected a Text Add On. In order for your request to be [...]
