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forgive me for my lack of updating

I’ve been busy. Really busy. Work work, freelance work, the book-writing-boyfriend, the small naughty person, something I can’t tell you just yet, and various geek activities are keeping me too busy to find interesting things to blog this week! There are so many things I want to do with this site also, for instance – … forgive me for my lack of updating

Too busy being a geek to blog…

The PHP and MySQL install was eventually a success so I have something new to play with – hence my silence here! While battling with MySQL I came across Developer Shed which is fullof interesting and well written articles and tutorials on open source web development topics.

awww

Cute story – I used to have pet mice

music

Last night Drew and I went to see Kate Rusby’s gig. Neither of us had heard of her – there was an article in the local rag about the gig so we thought we’d chance it – it was well worth the chance. If you like folk music, she is someone worth keeping an eye … music

whirr .. whirr .. whirr

This is the noise my Linux box is making as I install Apache, MySQL and PHP in order to have a play with the PHAkt server model for Dreamweaver UltraDev. whirr.. whirr… crunch crunch…

strange things happen here…

…on the way home from work yesterday I saw an old style Renault 5 embedded in a bush, with windows broken. Walking a little further towards the train station a youngish bloke was cycling towards me, he got to within a couple of feet of me and promptly fell of his bike – for no … strange things happen here…

wretched errors

After a brief respite from the RPC errors, they seem to be becoming more frequent again. They either manifest as a message saying ‘The RPC Server is unavailable’ or just a blank page is displayed, on refreshing the page they go away so if you see that – hit refresh. It’s an error seen on … wretched errors

another tableless wonder

Mo Morgan (dot com) goes tableless on his site’s default (blue dot) skin. Its Sunday, I’m trying to work and am thoroughly uninspired by the task at hand… ah well, the sooner I do this the sooner it will be finished and I’ll have time for more fun stuff.

new navigation

The more observant of my readers may have noticed the new ‘non mystery-meat’ navigation on the right. Enjoy your new found freedom to roam this vast expanse of purple, happy in the knowledge that you will always be able to get back again… If it breaks in your (W3C DOM supporting) browser, you know the … new navigation