Archive for February, 2008

Domain squatter of the year

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

http://www.sdfsdfds.com/

Earthquake?

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

<shigs> we just had an earth quake <shigs> :\ <shigs> it was so bad my entire house (about 10 people) are in the landing maoning about it <shigs> woke everyone up <shigs> walls shook to fuck] <Pthag> oh <Pthag> was it an earthquake?

PHP/Wordpress is daft

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

I've just had to upgrade wordpress to fix this bug: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5487 - 1. Create a draft post 2. Log out 3. Visit http://yourblog.com/index.php/wp-admin/ is_admin() spots the wp-admin in the request and returns true query.php uses is_admin() to decide to return future, draft or pending posts That's not how you're supposed to do authentication! 'Code ...

Django

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Anyone who watches the Python jobs/contracting market will have noticed by now that Django has firmly established itself as the de-facto python-powered webapp platform. Turbogears doesn't even appear on the horizon. Not quite as bad as HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray but close. This is a bit unfortunate for me, having written ...

Carpathian Mountains

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Just got back from a holiday seeing the in-laws in Romania. We also spent 4 days in the Carpathians, in a small town named Cheia, which is nice country for hiking. Cheia (Key) is so named because of its status as a formerĀ  border town between the states of Transylvania and ...