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Damn you Lynda!

I was nice and happy and settled with using movabletype as my weblogging application.  Then she points out that she might be changing to a product called =”http://www.pmachine.com” target=”_blank]pMachine [/url](which she has now done)

It’s fantastic!  I installed MySQL on my home PC so that I could have a play with it offline and had it up and running in no time.  I even got the front page looking like my current setup really quickly as well.

Some thinking to do………

DAMN YOU LYNDA!

I haven’t been getting out into the blogworld much over the last few days 🙁

The reason is I’ve been trying to (re)create a website that I visit – Clieworld.

The webmaster, Shaun, handwrites all the individual entries by hand, manually archives etc and I sent him an email saying “there is a better way!” So the last few days have been spent retrofitting some of the site into MT2.11.  It would have been fairly painless but I wanted to do it all in php so I could minimise the effort by using include statements etc and also opening the door for future functionality.

This would have followed the normal process of coding html then loading up to the server ad infinitum except for the fact that my webhost was (and still is) being a bit tardy with changing the permissions on the test directory that I’d set up on my site.  It just so happened that I visited the scriptygoddess website as I do most days and happened upon a link that stepped through how to get php working on the desktop so that one can try out new things without having to upload to your host.  Then, of course, I had to get CGI scripts working locally……….

Another walk-through later and the end result is I now have Apache server 2.0.36, PHP 4.2.1 and ActivePerl 5.6.1 all working together on my desktop and can run html, php, cgi etc locally MT runs very fast locally I can tell you! :vbg:

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What a way to start the day – fresh strawberries, Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut Cornflakes and ice cold semi-skimmed milk.  Yummy!

Oh – and France getting knocked out of the world cup!! :vbg:

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Week four of dieting and the figures are:

Date……………………10 June

Weight………………..194 lbs

Loss/Gain week…..1 lbs

Loss/Gain Total……8 lbs

Didn’t weigh myself last week and am very disappointed at losing just one pound in two weeks 🙁 I’ve had a couple bad weekends, foodwise though and still lost weight, if only a little.  Better that putting weight on I guess.

I’ve just downloaded a free application called Trillian.

What it does is combine the messaging functions of MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, IRC and Yahoo Messenger into one application!

I installed it this afternoon and it found and imported all my contacts for the various messaging systems and seems to be handling everything OK so far and I’ll be testing it out over the next week or so.

For those of use with multiple messaging systems it seems the ticket……….

For those that have never seen the ad mentioned in this previous post I have found a copy.  It is very cool IMHO and well worth a look.

This WMV file is 1.8MB in size.

Thanks to playmore for the file

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Got a PDA?  Got Avantgo?  Want to read Marc’s Musings on the go?

Well now you can!

I have created my very own custom Avantgo channel that allows those people with mobile devices to carry me around wherever they go You will need a PDA (of course) and an account at Avantgo (they’re free) If/when you have both of these thing follow this link or click on the picture to automatically add my channel to your subscription.  It’s been set up so that the images aren’t downloaded so it won’t take up too much of your PDA’s precious memory and includes the last 15 entries.

Thanks to Kiffin for the idea and to this page at Meryl.net on how to get this working for a Movabletype weblog

UPDATE: As I use smilies so often (as do people commenting) and I use images rarely (except to link) I have decided to include images in the channel.  This can be changed when you subscribe but as it stands at the mo’ the channel’s only 15K so I wouldn’t worry too much about it I’ve also changed it to only contain the last 10 entries – as most people synch their PDA’s at least once a day I thought this should cover it. 😎

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Bummer 🙁 This story tells how, in the UK, an ad for X-box has been banned. 

Shame ‘cos this was one of the few ad’s lately that I’ve really liked.  If anyone knows a link for it let me know.