Woot! I had to work late tonight to help implement Project Dandy’s CMS system into the live admin environment on the mainframe. And it worked! Apart from one minor hiccup, I forgot we need to add a new row into a DB table, everything went swimmingly. All initial tests seem to indicate it’s fine.
Even my hastily thrown together code to populate one of the new tables worked!
Blogroll Gone
I’ve finally dropped my blogroll from the right hand side. The ‘I read’ section is now powered by my own B2 Link Manager.
With the blogrolling server being up and down the last couple of days, I finally decided to make the move.
I’m keeping my account so I can at least check who’s blogrolling me 😉
Project Dandy
I finally got my SQL working! 🙂 I managed to finish the job it was for this afternoon. With any luck, we are still on schedule to go live with the CMS tool tomorrow evening. I’ve got to work late to help implement it, but I don’t anticipate any major problems. Other than that it’s been business as usual in the office. Too hot (it reached 85.5 again today), too busy, etc.
One interesting thing, as I was standing outside smoking, Aamir came past on his way to a client with one of the salesmen, and said “I’m going to show someone your web site, do you mind?” I said “No, of course not.” But then he had to go catch a train. I’m intrigued. I’ll speak to him tomorrow.
Homework
belated post
I didn’t get to do much tonight, I had some ‘homework’ (overtime) to do. No much progress with that either. I’m battling with a complicated SQL query. I’ve nearly got it to work but not quite. Very frustrating 🙁
Bad Fellowship Of The Ring Captions
I found this page with Bad Fellowship Of The Ring Captions.
The captioning in this bootleg is so bad that I had to share it with everyone. These are the better “bad” captions, with comments. These are captions that show a definite misunderstanding of the story, character, or plots, or have such a “wonderful” turn of phrase they must be shared.
Funny 🙂
B2 Link Manager Version 1.1
I’ve just released the latest version of my B2 Link Manager.
Highlights include, random ordering, limiting the number of links listed, a sample ‘list all links’ page, a popup function, and several bug fixes.
As usual, comments, bug fixes, etc. to the B2 forum.
The Taggerung
This morning I’ve just started The Taggerung by Brian Jacques. This is the next to latest in the fantastic Redwall series. I’m a great fan of this series, even though it is aimed at (older) children. I’ve read all the earlier books, seen the cartoon series, and listened to the audio tapes. It’s more than a year since I read the previous tale, and I’m looking forward to it.
An Invisible sign of my own
I started a new book the other day, An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimeee Bender. Its a first novel, though the sleeve notes indicate she has a collection of short stories. It’s a very interesting book. It’s dark but not really in the conventional sense. More slowly going mad than nasty or evil. I am enjoying it though. Her writing style; first person, disjointed, jumping from past to present, suits the story well. So far, I have to recommend it, but perhaps not if you are easily disturbed.
Update: Ive finished this now. The ending took some thought, but yes, recommended.
