random musings from a twisted mind
Archive for October, 2006
firefox 2 options
Oct 26th
Well [http://getfirefox.com/ firefox 2] is finally released, but had a few little gotchas (well missing compatibility with LiveHTTPHeaders (which is just too useful)
goto about:config in location bar
Add new boolean value
extensions.checkCompatibility=false
webservers and the web 2.0 step backwards
Oct 25th
Joy, so some clever sods decided that databases aren’t really that expensive and that it’s perfectly fine to make lots of queries against tables for every little web page they write.
However, when does the programmer think about their little nested SELECT statement and the 20,000 rows of data they get back to generate a little 30Kb web page?
Err, do the math people! If you’re going to talk to a database, then ask for what you need not what you think you might want.
If you’re requiring that much data for each page, then look at your design – it sounds like you might have chosen the wrong design.
lesson 2
Oct 22nd
| Cyrillic | Phonetic | English |
|---|---|---|
| Меня зовут михаил | menya zavoot michael | |
| Эта | Ehta | This is |
| Где | Gedeer | Where is? |
| Вот | Vot | Here is |
Your
| Cyril | Phon | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| Ваш | Vash | Your (masculine) |
| Ваша | Vasha | Your (femine) |
| Ваше | Vashye | Your (neuter) |
My
| Cyril | Phon | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| Мои | Moi | My (masculine) |
| Моя | Maya | My (femine) |
| My (neuter) |
Argh, themes!
Oct 22nd
Hmm, I really do quite like this particular theme, but it… well, lets be frank about it, it’s PINK! Might have to fire up photoshop and make a few alterations to the theme, but aside from that, found a nice enough gallery2 theme that works pretty well.
oh, yes, age get behind me
Oct 13th
living this long’s not as wonderful as people think.
I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else,
but with a great big extra helping of being very old
and deaf and creaky.
the kings and queens
Oct 4th
Willy, Willy, Harry, Ste,
Harry, Dick, John, Harry three,
One, two, three Neds, Richard two,
Henries four, five, six – then who?
Edwards four, five, Dick the bad,
Harries twain and Ned the lad,
Mary, Bessie, James the vain,
Charlie, Charlie, James again,
William & Mary, Anna Gloria,
Four Georges, William and Victoria,
Edward, George, then Ned the eighth
quickly goes and abdicat’th,
leaving George, then Liz the second,
and with Charlie next it’s reckoned.That’s the way our monarchs lie
since Harold got it in the eye!