Stuff On My Cat
Not actually my cat, but take a look at the site and you’ll get the idea: it’s a lot of stuff, balanced on various cats. Stuff On My Cat
200th blog post!
It’s taken over a year but my blog has now reached its 200th post. As a special celebration, I’m making the 200th posting all about the great event itself. This includes a special photo of me writing the 200th post itself: To commemorate this achievement I may also be going to the pub later.
The Regex Coach – interactive regular expressions
This little desktop app allows you to write regular expressions and test them against a string to see if they’re working – it’s excellent. The Regex Coach – interactive regular expressions
David Blunkett resignation statement
David Blunkett has just released the following statement regarding his resignation …… … . …. . ….. . . . . …. … . ….. ……. . …… . …. .. . …… ….. . …… . .. . ……… .. . . ….. … …….. .. …….. .. … . …. .. …. … …
Alter tables with MySQL replication
I couldn’t find anything particularly useful about how to alter MySQL table structure in a situation where replication was being performed so I pretty much had to try something out to see if it worked. What I found was that MySQL was remarkably clever at replicating changes through from one database to another. I don’t …
The weirdest thing ever
This is on someone else’s blog and I think there is a question that needs to be answered: what the hell is it?
Cad monkey
Although this is very relevant to my old architecture days, I think the message is going to be familiar to anyone who works in an office: change it to ‘Code monkey’ and the joke’s the same.
Leyton Orient 1-0 Oxford United
I was there when the mighty Orient went top of League 2. Ok, not for the first time, but it seemed important this time around. The lads done good, again, and excellent to see a clean sheet at home. BBC SPORT | Football | League Two | Leyton Orient 1-0 Oxford
Telegraph Fantasy Football password
A particularly low fat password this week: DUST
Easily proved wrong
Most fortune tellers stick to safe, non-verifiable speculations, but it seems that Punjihal, a 75 year old Indian fortune teller, predicted his own death. It turned out not to be true. Surely this must tarnish his reputation? BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Seer defies own death prediction