Category Archives: Computing

Posts about computing and computing related matters

Last.FM Widgets Plugin

Posted on October 16, 2007 by Steve

Well I’ve got version 1.0 of my Last.FM Widgets Plugin working. I’ve trimmed some of the extra bits out that Last.FM include in their plugs (just to make things tidy) but retained about 95% of what was there. It supports … Continue reading →

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Internet Explorer… what a pile of Crap

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Steve

For a change of scene I’ve been working on a set of Last.FM widgets which will allow you to dispaly Last.FM widgets in the sidebars on the blogs… and you should be able to see one there right now. It … Continue reading →

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Blogs

Posted on August 4, 2007 by Steve

Andrew Denny has a post on his blog GrannyButtons about blogs and links. Basically he’d commented in his blog about a post on another blog about a new Marina development. As you’d expect he had included links to the original … Continue reading →

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Can there be too many Online Fora?

Posted on April 2, 2007 by Steve

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?

Posted on March 24, 2007 by Steve

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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PHPBB Mods – why the hell do we bother?

Posted on March 8, 2007 by Steve

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

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Steve

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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Netscape – what a bunch of Morons

Posted on December 19, 2006 by Steve

No doubt others have experienced this on their blogs: You have Trackbacks enabled and the trackbacks fill up with crap posted there by scum advertising drugs, pornography and so on. S I’ve been having a lot of problems with crap … Continue reading →

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Linux

Posted on October 23, 2006 by Steve

At the weekend I replaced the broken power connector on our old Toshiba SA30. I tidied it up, defragged it all and then applied the latest set of Microsoft patches. Thats where it all went wrong – system just hung … Continue reading →

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Trackbacks

Posted on October 18, 2006 by Steve

I’ve been reading up on Trackbacks and how they are supposed to work. I think I now understand it – but I did find an article by Shai Coggins that puts it in a nice easy to understand way. Shai’s … Continue reading →

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