Not much to report today. Jan is feeling a little under the weather. She’s picked up a stomach upset from somewhere. Jamie said she felt ill tonight after she had gone to bed. Nothing seems to have come of it so far. I’m just waiting to see if I catch it.

Work is a busy as usual, I’m looking forward to my long break. I will have a total of 22 days off work! I’ve been bringing CD’s home every night: I normally keep my whole collection at work, but I want to make sureI have a decent selection if I’m going to be home for that long.

I received an email from someone in praise of B2 Link Manager along with a suggestion for a feature. I may implement that along with some of the other things I have planned.

And that’s about it, I’m going back to my book now, and I’ll probably have an earlyish night.

Wow, Spank the Monkey is taking a Christmas break! I know how he feels!

Link from Steve.

I’ve been pointed at some (mildly) interesting things on the ‘net recently…

The ASCII-art Twelve Days of Christmas!

A quite well done recursive optical illusion.

A Lorem Ipsum (lipsum) generator.

Tonight I’ve been setting up another sub-hostee.
Should go live tomorrow.

Woot! I’ve just finished watching The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [Extended Version]. It was absolutely brilliant!
The new scenes are fantastic and add so much to the movie. I think I’ll start plowing my way through all the extra stuff next.

Recommended

I was asked what I thought of B2 the other day in one of my comments. Here’s what I wrote in reply.

I really do like B2. When I decided I’d like to get into this blogging stuff, I looked at a few, but didn’t really investigate too closely. More a case of reading through feature lists, looking at the maturity of the products and getting a general feel for the ‘polish’.

I chose B2 partly because it had the best feel to it, and because I’d not done any PHP work for ages.

Since then, I’m really impressed with it. There is quite a community built up around it with lots of support, Michel and Macshack are very responsive. More importantly for me, plenty of hacks, mods and add-ons are being developed. I’ve contributed to a few, and created at two myself.

The code is not as clean and well structured as I would like, but the up coming version 1 is a complete re-write using a template based system.

After seeing my blog, my step-son Steve decided he wanted one, and it was no problem to set him up as a subdomain on my host using B2. Since then I bought him his own domain and hosting (for his birthday) and transferred his existing site over to the new one with no problems. I know MySQL quite well so it was no problem to update the absolute paths in his data to be relative for the new location.

Now my 11-year old grandson has started his blog, again as a sub domain on my host. Whilst he doesn’t update it as often has Steve or I, he does enjoy messing about with it.

All in all, I cannot recommend B2 highly enough.

Did they think it through when they bought this URL?
This is a site which will help you to find out who represents an actor.

And the URL? http://whorepresents.com 😀

Thanks to Dom S for the link.