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Yeah I know it has been a long time
24/02/2006, 11:25:17
Tagged Under: geek, php, mysql, blog.
Even I am surprised that a month has passed so quickly. I've been thinking a lot about the system that runs this site and I think once again it is time to re-tweak it. I'm partial to banging my head off walls aye? No really I think it has come a long way from the simple Perl script that used to be but there are plenty of things I wish to add to it. For instance I'd love to add a simple dictionary function that adds the abbreviation stuff without me having to type it in the entry, I can do that now with the BBCode filter but the problem is the filter isn't clever enough and a word could be part of a link and in fact be part of the URL and then we have broken links. Easy to create and would make life pretty good, it would add extra queries on the database but then Wordpress uses on average near 16 just to load the main blog where I use... ONE! I've never understood why Wordpress doesn't use real relational queries properly.
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Hello 'tinternet!
24/01/2006, 19:28:09
Tagged Under: arcticmonkeys, php, mysql, geek.
Well after my previous entry about the Arctic Monkeys they went straight in at number one in the UK Charts heh. Now perhaps the record industry will accept that free music online doesn't affect the sales of records. The Arctic Monkeys literally gave all there tracks away on the net for FREE well before they even got a record deal and both tracks they have released so far have gone straight in at number one. Also they had already SOLD OUT on there tour before they released anything in the charts and why? Well because people had ALREADY heard them on the web. I'm not sure if the people at record empires realise it yet but, hello? The web and music sharing is about the cheapest way to market a band EVER. The Arctic Monkeys again just proved that beyond a doubt.
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Hotlinkers
16/01/2006, 11:20:34
Tagged Under: blog, security, geek, images.
Always fun to catch them out. Problem is trying to stop them can cripple not only your own server but also anyone who you want to share your content with who you're more than happy to let hotlink it. In a perfect world you'd have everyone take a copy of your image or whatever but it just isn't practical, especially when that media might change. I recently suffered this problem, and still do. I still do because I'm still deciding on what to do. I can see by my log that someone has hotlinked the "pod" image from the music list of the right side. The request comes from a forum which is locked off and requires you to actually fax to the owners a copy of this to be authorised to log in (which is pretty heavy really). As you may or may not know it's written in Turkish, shame I have a friend who lived there for years, no problems in knowing what it says. Aside that we have some clever bod on myspace who has a "friend" who decided to hotlink the "the rising dragon" music image. You'd think people would get a life, get some eyesight and realise that the copyright logo at the bottom means in lamer terms: "Don't steal my stuff thanks", alas no.
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MySqL it is then...
01/08/2002, 00:41:21
Tagged Under: mysql, geek.
//geek
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