Author Archives: Steve

Combining blogs

Well today I decided to pull over all my old posts from the blog on Camsigh. Using the export and import features of WordPress made it a breeze. Now all I have to do is go through all the posts, … Continue reading

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Colds and stuff

Well after the trip on the boat last weekend I went down will the mother of all colds. I was OK on Tuesday but by the time Wednesday rolled out I was feeing stuffed up and my throat was hurting. … Continue reading

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A few days on the boat

Well if all goes to plan we are off to the boat on Thursday night for a few “relaxing” days away from work. I say relaxing because we haven’t quite decided how much to push. If the weather is lousy … Continue reading

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Cable

When we first moved into the house back in 2002 there was a Telewest cable installation. We had it re-activated and used it for a bit. When we came to re-arrange the living room we asked Telewest how much it … Continue reading

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Smokey – a cat on a diet

This is Smokey – a middle aged Manx cat. Smokey’s lifestyle seems to be based on that of Bagpuss and she loves nothing more to lie around all day doing nothing except eat, sleep and, of course fluff! Anyway she … Continue reading

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Can there be too many Online Fora?

Over the weekend, when I was moving the boat, I was sitting on the back deck thinking about a lot of things. Camsigh has gone quiet over the past couple of years, and other boards that I’m signed up to … Continue reading

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Was it all Worth it?

Well I sat down the other day and decided that I wasn’t happy with how Camsigh looked. I’d bolted a Blog mod onto the PHPBB forum and it was having problems with spammers and the code was rather messy. I’d … Continue reading

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Ahhhh – Life Returns to Normal

Well life in Cheltenham returns to normal. All the race goers who piled into town for the Gold Cup have now left, or are in the process of leaving. There were 52,000 for the first 3 days and 65,000 on … Continue reading

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PHPBB Mods – why the hell do we bother?

I’ve coded up a couple of mods for phpbb and The total down loads of these two mods is not huge but its not zero. There was a bug in the Registration Variable MOD that no-one noticed.. or if they … Continue reading

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Playing around with PHP and PHPBB

I’d been looking round for quite a bit for a nice acronym explainer for PHPBB… I found quite a few but none of them did what I wanted. So I took a couple of existing mods and hacked them round … Continue reading

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