Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 19th, 2008
Recently the Associated Press has gone after bloggers quoting its articles. Although to most bloggers it may look as if the AP has created this condition just to make life difficult, it was mentioned in the BOL podcast (#746) that this is a rule they’ve had for a long time; it’s just that they’ve now […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 17th, 2008
I installed this line of code in a crontab the other day. It exports the entire database (schema and data) to text, then emails it to you. Makes backing up easy.
mysqldump -h DB-SERVER -u DB-USERNAME –password=”DB-PASSWORD” DB-NAME | mail -s mysqlExport EMAIL-ADDRESS
To use, replace the fields (in caps) with your database info and run in […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 17th, 2008
At work today we launched the new Air New Zealand website, Home Sweet As.
If you’re a Kiwi living in Australia you can highlight your ’sweet spot’ and have it added as a edible dot to a virtual cake in the shape of New Zealand. This follows from our previous campaign last year we just won […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 17th, 2008
I have to admit to being sucked in by Steve Jobs and his church. It’s easy to succumb to temptation, bowing to him, filing myself somewhere deep within his flock.
It’s because I think owning an item made by Apple of California will make my life richer, fuller, happier. I start to believe that the shine […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 12th, 2008
Yesterday I launched my latest project, Study2U.com. I’ve been involved with that project for about 6 years, launching various incarnations of the site during that time. It seems with each version, search engines either take an immediate like or dislike to the site, and we have to build upon wherever we start out.
The version before […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 15th, 2008
Michael J. Schmitz posted two comments on my last post, about celebrities and programming languages although his comments included how Paris Hilton should read his blog about climate change so she could save her hotels. His idea for solving global warming entails a fleet of boats spraying frozen saltwater and cold air on glaciers […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 7th, 2008
Yes, it’s one of THOSE lists.
Edit - Ruby on Rails and ASP.NET aren’t languages: I did know that. Apologies - I added these last and didn’t update the post title. ‘Kermit isn’t really a celebrity’ - thank you to those who pointed out that HTML isn’t a language, but I thought the hint in […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 3rd, 2007
This is a trick vulnerability I learnt about from a talk I went to by Rasmus Lerdorf called ‘Exploring The Broken Web’. He took delegates on a 30 minute whirlwind tour of security vulnurabilities on the internet, specifically what can be done with XSS combined with a bit of social engineering.
He only briefly skimmed on […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 2nd, 2007
waterfall-abseiling
Originally uploaded by The Feds
We went canyoning in the Blue Mountains last weekend. It was amazing. We put on 5mm wetsuits (thick) and followed a stream down through a canyon: jumping into rockpools backwards, sliding down rocks and finally we abseiled down a 50 foot waterfall.
We did it with High n Wild in Katoomba. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 13th, 2007
Possibly the best/worst web innovation I’ve ever experienced is StumbleUpon. Once you start hitting the little green button you can’t stop. You come across a few of those ‘free movie download’ sites that aren’t free and sites by bad designers trying to promote themselves as good designers, but you don’t care. You hit the friendly […]
