Died peacefully just before 2pm on the 22 of November. Thanks Dad, I will always miss you.

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…

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 programs So I…

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.

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…

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…

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…