Died peacefully just before 2pm on the 22 of November. Thanks Dad, I will always miss you.
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Nasty Telecom…..
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Telecom NZ enjoyed being one of the most hated companies in the land for many years. With attitudes like this I’m sure they still hold the title…
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Sasser blues
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Another virus… go to MS, download the patch, install the patch, I guess this means that I’ll have to reboot, yes, it does:
Before you install this update, we recommend that you:
– Update your system repair disk (that fills me with confidence)
– Back up your system (stuff that)
– Close all open programsSo I have to shut down Putty which is running a MySQL session, Dreamweaver, Apache, Notes, several instances of Firefox with stuff in them I had found and wanted to look at later…. This is a drag.
And yes, I do decide to back-up my stuff (which takes ages) so hours later the patch is in place, and the firewall and virus checker updated.
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Reality bites
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update: 05 May – These have been taken off the server so the link won’t work…. it’s too bad because I think people need to see the type of shots that were there.
These are pics from Iraq – some are pretty graphic . It makes you sick really.
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Moving a MySQL database
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I’ve been shifting some PHP stuff from my laptop to a server the last couple of days and the time came to move the MySQL database to the server too. I haven’t actually done it yet, and it will be interesting to see if it works or not. I found information in an unlikely place – the Adobe support site:
http://support.adobe.com/devsup/devsup.nsf/docs/52353.htm
More interesting, I thought, was that URL. Am I going off Domino? Nope – still something there….
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Give us plenty, give us peace
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For some reason I found myself reading the US national anthem (and singing it!). The lyrics are quite powerful, and revolve largely around the flag. The anthem is also something of a charter, something that people look to for direction on their national character (land of the free, home of the brave, etc).
The NZ anthem, that I guess most kiwis only know the first verse of, also contains some stirring lines and could also act as a point of reference for national character.
The little known third verse states – “Peace, not war, shall be our boast,” and “Let our cause be just and right, God defend New Zealand.”
Other gems include “Give us plenty, give us peace”; “Preaching love and truth to man”; and:
“May our mountains ever be
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Mystic River and the Friedmans
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Capturing the Friedmans
A documentary about a family coping after two of its members are accused and incarcerated for child abuse. Definitely worth seeing. I had nightmares about Marty Friedman after seeing this.Mystic River
Mystic River has a brutal and disturbing message. I was shocked and angry when I left the movie theater. I was expecting a Clint Eastwood number more along the line of Unforgiven. I calmed down and Tash told me what she thought. I have a different point of view now, but I think I need to see it again to take it all in. Despite this – see this film. You may not like it but if you ‘go for the ride’ you may experience quite a trip.Interesting post on the Internet Movie Database claiming the film is ‘leftist propaganda’. I actually thought that it was ultra right-wing, law of the jungle propaganda at first, but Eastwood doesn’t strike me as being that way inclined.
I do not recommend watching these two back to back. Too full on.
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Naming divs
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I didn’t know about naming rules/illegal characters for div/spans – they can’t start with a number – it has to be letter. Apart from that they can include letters, numbers, -, _, : and fullstops.
Also, and this is pretty cool, the id attribute acts as an anchor – so there’s no need to specify an “a name=”, you can just reference the id (which of course is unique).
Form the horse’s mouth:
ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ( A-Za-z ) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ( 0-9 ), hyphens (“-“), underscores (“_”), colons (“:”), and periods (“.”).
