Archive for August, 2006

recommended music and broken commandments

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

There’s nothing on TV and it is pouring with rain outside, so I’ve put on a bit of music: “Time (The Revelator)” by Gillian Welch.
I love the opening song from this album, the title track. The recorded song has Gillian singing and strumming her acoustic guitar, and David Rawlings playing lead on his 1935 […]

akismet

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

It’s been almost three months since I installed the Akismet plugin to deal with comment spam. In that time it has caught 6,716 spam comments!
If we assume about 5KB per comment, which seems a reasonable estimate, that would equate to nearly 33MB of wasted bandwidth. It’s a good thing that I’m allowed up to […]

multiculturism

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Ruth Kelly, the Minister for Communities and Local Govenment, has created a Commission on Integration and Cohesion. She says, in her speech launching the new commission:
I believe … we have moved from a period of uniform consensus on the value of multiculturalism, to one where we can encourage that debate by questioning whether it is […]

browser bug

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

I had a frustrating day at work today, writing javascript to do fancy things with XML documents and running into annoying bugs with various web browsers. I’ve come to expect bugs in Internet Explorer, but I was surprised today to find a bug in Opera’s implementation of the LSSerializer interface.
Considering that Opera seems to be […]