Category Archives: Web

Product Placement in Literature in the 21st Century

Having just been reading Moonraker and in light of product placement coming to UK television. What would Ian Fleming do if he, were alive today and, published James Bond novels online? In Sebastian Faulks’ recent series “Faulks on Fiction”, he … Continue reading

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Tweeting MythTV events in the new OAuth era

The mythtv wiki has a few scripts for tweeting MythTV stuff to twitter; although they all relied upon Basic Auth. until recently. Taking a leaf out of Twitter Tools‘ book it’s possible to convert the LWP::UserAgent-based code to do OAuth. … Continue reading

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Yes, this IS getting boring

Upgraded most of the short linking I’ve been doing outside wordpress/la-petite-url to use yourls; except, of course, that a quick bit of sql didn’t translate everything. The MySQL insert into yourls_url select key1, target, timestamp(concat(year, ‘-’, month, ‘-’,day, ‘ 12:00:00′)), … Continue reading

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“Fix”ing WordPress database tables

After restoring tables from a WP mu backup (an incomplete one as it turned out) various issues presented themselves, not least an inability to submit posts (HTTP 500 not informative). A little searching revealed a likely cause (http://discuss.joyent.com/viewtopic.php?id=19116): missing auto_increment … Continue reading

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Moo!

This blog and shopping.chrs.nl are now running as sub-blogs of a WordPress MU install, if there’s anything wonky going on here, that’s why. Talking of moo; moo.com ( UK | US ) do very nice printing.

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