From the Orient

I messed around with PHP this afternoon and hacked the wp-recent-links so it grabs the referrer information using the bookmarklet. Now it automatically fills in the via section in “Newspaper Cuttings”:http://www.dellah.com/orient/cuttings/ like “Simon describes in his blogmarks”:http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/11/24/blogmarks. In fact, not knowing any javascript either, I got the bookmarklet code from “a link in a comment in that post at clagnut”:http://www.clagnut.com/blog/264/

I’ve emailed the author of the plugin, so he can either ignore it, or write the PHP properly and fix all the mistakes I’ve probably made.

I’m now off for a bath to sooth a bruised foot. Playing football last night, a swung my foot at a beautifully deliveried cross only to kick the studs of the intercepting defended. Now I can’t move my foot at all. Shame, cos I’m sure it was going straight for the top corner. Maybe I’ve broken my metatarsal, but that was sooo last year.

Danny O’Brien has an article in this week’s “New Scientist”:http://www.newscientist.com about RSS newsreaders.

bq. At seven o’clock every evening, Robert Scoble settles down on his sofa with his tablet PC and checks what’s new on more than a thousand websites.

Whilst I was half expecting to find out some new and exciting scientific treatment that would be available to cure this poor addicted person of his cruel affliction, I was no less delighted to read about RSS.

I’ve moved my linklog, “Newspaper Cuttings”:http://del.icio.us/sarabian, from del.icio.us to a WP powered side blog using “a plugin from rebelpixel”:http://rebelpixel.com/projects/wp-recent-links/. The main advantage of this is that it makes it possible for me to add via links to the entries and give due credit, and gives me control of the output in a way I didn’t quite have before.

“RSS Feed here”:http://www.dellah.com/orient/cuttings/feed/ and “the index page here”:http://www.dellah.com/orient/cuttings/ but as before you can see the links over on the side there.

“wp-recent-links”:http://rebelpixel.com/projects/wp-recent-links/ is a very neat “Wordpress”:http://wordpress.org plugin. I had to hack it a bit to get it to how I liked it. For example, it was hard coded to point to a /recent-links/ directory and I had to change it to /cuttings/. I’m glad I made the move to WP, as hacking plugins was something I found impossible in “MT”:http://www.movabletype.org. I understand PHP and can hack it, even though I can’t yet write it.

Billie Piper, famous (well sort of famous in that kind of really crap “celebrity” way) for being married to Chris Evans and having teen hit single is going to be the Doctor’s new assistant.

Apparently, she is a good actor based on some recent TV appearances that I haven’t seen, and on the forum’s it has gone down as a good move, so who am I to argue.

bq.:http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1223727,00.html The former singer, 21, was an instant hit when she appeared in BBC1 drama Canterbury Tales: The Miller’s Tale opposite Dennis Waterman, and was watched by more than 8 million people. She also appeared in BBC2’s contemporary drama Bella and the Boys.

She’s a bit old to have that teen following anymore, but she is just the sort to get the Dad’s watching (if she dresses like “Leela”:http://www.shillpages.com/dw/jamesl04.jpg … ). So the die hard Who fans will be watching (and saying it’s crap obviously), the Dad’s will be watching, the Mum’s have Christopher Eccleston, but what’s in it for the Kids? “Doctor Who’s new arch enemy, ‘The Rapper’, played by Enimen”?

WordPress 1.2 is released and it took me about 5 minutes to move from the beta to the production version. And very good it is too. I had a very busy day today, and there are a lot of WP links to review and talk about. I’ll get round to looking at those tomorrow.

Also, “Adam spotted my problem with mturls”:http://www.dellah.com/orient/2004/05/17/moved#comment-1016 and this is working fine now. I’ve had a recent surge in search referrals and I was wondering what had caused it; the move to Wordpress or something else. Then I check and found I was number 5 in a search for “christiano ronaldo”:http://www.google.com/search?q=christiano%20ronaldo and his little acheivement over the weekend has sparked a huge number of searches.

Eye I Adio etc etc.

that Ronaldo, 5 trick pony, but what tricks!

off for more drinks

that tribute at the end for Jimmy Davis brought a tear to my eye.
I passed the accident he died in last summer