failing to maintain standards since 1966
I’m having trouble getting to grips with some aspects of PHP, although it’s probably more to do with programming in general than a particular language.
Functions I get. Using arrays? I can get them to work in the end. Classes? I just don’t get classes. Functions seem to be called methods(!?) and why would I want to use classes anyway? How does $this --> work?
Don’t worry, I’m just letting off some steam. I’ll google for an explanation later.
It was Kim’s birthday yesterday but due to work we ended up heading out to eat today instead. Dim sum. Mmmmm.
Probably my favourite time to eat in Chinatown is late on a summer evening. Sitting on an upper floor of China China with some roast pork, crispy pork and rice with sounds of the street below coming through the open windows. It’s pretty much empty on the upper floors by then so there’s a feeling of calm despite the noise below.
I was going to get Kim a remote for the iPod but the things I’d read online about it made it seem a bit…er…crap. So she got Strictly Ballroom instead. I’m much better at spontaneous gift buying than for events. Honest.
Sometimes when something is bothering you but you can’t figure out quite what it is, the best course of action is to strip the thing right down and take it from there. I guess it would be possible to make this site even more minimal but then you wouldn’t be able to read this. Even I have my limits.
This post is going to look so stupid in the archives :)
Got hold of a copy of Slackware 10 yesterday so I’ve been busy setting that up. If I really knew what I was doing I’d have home set up on a different partition so I didn’t have to copy all my config files over each time but as I said…if I really knew what I was doing…
Best bit so far? It’s a bit sad but when my monitor is blanked the XOrg version of X starts instantly. It was always annoying how it’d have to move the mouse around and hit keys repeatedly before X would respond. This is a good thing. Small but good. Also font’s are looking spiffy in most things. We like spiffy here at monki towers.
The fact that I’m running all these new things means I’ll finally be able to try those programs that refused to work before. I’m a comin’ for ya Skippy, ya hear me now!
Expect anguished posts over the next few days as I break things.
Tired. Been playing Eve a lot this weekend so it’s my own fault but it doesn’t help when you have a work shedule like mine. I’m still trying to fit the finishing of my companys web site into that shedule. How long ago was it I started? The main problem is that it doesn’t feel like work to me (work isn’t supposed to be fun) so I usually abandon it to do some “real” work.
I’ve also become the code monkey on a revamp of a popular open source projects web site. I realise that last sentance is clunky but it’s probably not right to mention which one as it’s still in the early stages but I was pleased to be asked.
Why is it that most of my CSS based problems stem from Internet Explorer for mac. Is Mac IE used on OSX? Please tell me it’s not.
Kevin over at denial has put up a great new design and moved to Textpattern at the same time. I tried the early gamma versions and really liked the UI but couldn’t really get to grips with creating a whole site with it. That doesn’t mean I don’t think it’s a good bit of kit but that it didn’t work for me at the time. I’m fed up of moving systems so I’m going to stick with wordpress. Unless something new and shiny catches my eye that is.
Who would’ve expected this to work on images? Not me anyway.
width:xx%; - where “xx” is your value.
But it does. (Semi) scalable JPEGs, GIFs and PNGs. I’ll have to experiment as it opens up some interesting avenues for layout.
While browsing on sunday night I found a link to HardOCP Doom3 hardware guide which has a page listing the hardware requirements. I thought I’d be close to the minimum specs but I didn’t think I’d be under the requiremements. For a start I need Windows 2000/XP to play. Yeah I know, I know but it’s my choice as to what I run. Well, it was my choice. Seems like I’ll finally have to give Mr Gates some more money.
The 1GHz Athlon might have just made it as I was (just) getting away with playing Black and White with a PII 350MHz and a Voodoo 2 sli rig (I’ve still got them under the bed. I’m a sentimental fool :)) but the final straw was the 2.2Gb of hard drive space. Kim’s been on at me to upgrade for a little while now as using iTunes has eaten all the available space on the laptop so I guess I’ll have to put some money aside to keep us both happy.
The worst bit is that I find this out on the week of release. Ok, maybe I should have been paying a little more attention to things other than the great screenshots but…ah hell, I’m just stupid.
The good news is that once upgraded I’ll be ready for Half Life 2… surely?
We went to see Measure for Measure at the National Theatre last night. It’s not something we’d have chosen but the tickets were given to us so off we went.
As usual I didn’t bother too much with what the actors and actress’ were actually saying but simply listened and tried to pick out the meaning. Hmmm that doesn’t make a lot of sense but I know what I mean. Shakespeare’s guide for writing seemed to be “why use one when you can use ten words instead”.
We had fun although we could have done with an interval as we were there for two and a half hours during which my bum fell asleep. It never seems like a good idea to get up and wander around rubbing your bottom, or anyone else’s come to think of it unless it’s that sort of play of course.
Afterwards it was off to Chinatown for some barbecue pork, crispy pork and rice which was as good as always.
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