Alex King has released another handy plugin to harvest links from your blog entries.
You can see it in action here
I’m not sure it’s terribly useful, though I do like it all the same. I seem to have an odd affinity for semi-useful plugins….
Julian Field, developer of MailScanner, is seriously ill at present.
Here’s hoping he gets well soon!
In another one of the sidenote style posts …..
We’ve currently got about 4 positions open!!
That’s mad!
It wasn’t that long ago that we had 4 staff!
Anyway, we’re looking for the following:
If you feel that you are suitable pop your CV over to management@blacknight.ie in PDF or RTF format.
A few weeks back, after my trip to LA, I mentioned that I was looking into getting a new camera. Not so much as a replacement for my Sony Cybershot T7, but as an “addon” 
The problem with the Sony Cybershot is that it’s a compact. While it may be capable of taking lovely “snaps” it simply cannot do more advanced things.
The feedback I got in the comments on that post was fantastic, so I finally took the plunge today and ordered a Canon EOS 400D with a EF-S 18-55 mm Lens.
Hopefully I’ll have it by the end of the week.
On a sidenote, AIB’s credit card services were on the phone to me within 5 minutes! Hardly surprising really, as I rarely make large purchases on my personal credit card – and I really do appreciate their vigilance. Of course I couldn’t remember what the hell I bought the other weekend at around 7pm on Saturday … but I was more than happy to discuss all the other transactions on my account, including my trip to Hooters in Hollywood.
Client-side Javascript is really useful sometimes, but this one is rather silly:
It *thinks* the Oscars start in just over an hour, whereas they don’t actually start for another 8 hours, due to the time difference!
Oh well
As part of my ongoing efforts to make sites on this server run faster and cause me fewer headaches I’ve implemented Apache log rotation using Cronolog.
Apache2 does support log rotation, but Cronolog gives you more options, which is why I chose it.
On Ubuntu all you need to do is:
apt-get install cronolog
To see which version you have type:
cronolog -V
The version I have is 1.6.2, which was released 5 years ago! I guess that means “it just works”.
Unfortunately the documentation on the site isn’t as extensive as I would have liked, but adding a daily log rotation in Apache2 can be done by editing the log entry in the vhost config to read as follows:
CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/cronolog /pathtologs/logs/%Y/%m/%d/access.log" combined
This will create a subdirectory for each year, month and day. As the site I was concerned about, IrishBlogs.info, produces rather large log files I was more concerned about getting them down to a managable size. I am not worried about processing them at this juncture.
Hopefully this will help
I picked up the “Special Anniversary Edition” of the Gladiator soundtrack on Amazon earlier this week. It’s a lovely two disc set with disc two featuring some of the scenes from the film.
Weren’t they meant to be making a sequel or prequel?
I’ve mentioned the rather braindead way in which the Enterprise Ireland mailing lists are maintained in the past.
The subject has reared its head again and the moderators have done a “wonderful” job.
The fact that there are “moderators” annoys me enough already. It’s damn annoying.
Their response is maddening:
*Moderator Note — this topic has been discussed previously. The policy of
allowing anonymous posting is unlikely to change. However, should anyone on
this discussion list wish to raise this with the eBusiness Unit, Enterprise
Ireland, they can be contacted at ebusiness@enterprise-ireland.com. No
further posts on this specific subject will be released to the discussion.
(my emphasis)
This editing and censoring of posting bugs the hell out of me.
I’ve just moved IrishBlogs.info to a new server (this one). If anyone notices anything odd please let me know
I’ve been with Sky for close to two years now.
In all that time I don’t think I’ve ever received a single invoice or receipt for my payments to them.
The only mail I get from them are silly letters about Sky broadband and the monthly magazine.
Shouldn’t they be making available invoices or receipts?
I’ve already spoken to their accounts department, but they were hopeless. I was informed that I would get a receipt if I paid by cash, but that option is not available to anyone in Ireland as far as I know.
Chorus, on the other hand, used to send me receipts every month.
Am I missing something?
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