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Stats are unavailable for a couple of days, while I try to expand the ability of AWStats to break down various browser versions. It currently handles IE/Firefox/Netscape, and I want to expand that to include Opera and Mozilla. I also want details of developmental versions - e.g. developmental versions of Firefox in the 9 months since 1.0 are versioned as 1.0+, but are being listed simply as 1.0 currently.

Since I’ve never written any perl before, and AWStats is a bloated mess of code (according to those who do know perl, it’ll be interesting. I’m hoping that 90% of it will be copy/paste.

Back in March 2004 I posted some funny/wierd/random pictures. Here are some more - many are definately NSFW. If you still wanna see ‘em…

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Tweaking the look of these pages in the past has always been hard, because I’ve had to change some code, upload it to the server, refresh page, write more code, upload it, refresh page….and anything that broke would have also broken for someone trying to visit the page. Because of this I took a very cautious approach.

That’s been because all my previous attempts to get Apache (web server), PHP (programming language) and MySQL (database) working together on my machine at home ended in failure. Thanks to my discovery of XAMPP^[1], this is no longer a problem, so I’ve been able to make more extensive changes to things without fear of inconviencing anyone else. My 404 error page is snazzier as well, including a reference not only the page that you tried to access, but a time-wasting narrative as well (try it!). It now works for the blog as well.

I’ve also managed to beat into submission most of the remaining Internet Explorer bugs on the site - the only one I’m aware that remains is the fuzzy header on the sidebar

^[1]XAMPP is combined installer for all of those web tools and more. The best part being that all of the necessary configuration is perfomed automatically.

…and still getting phone calls from work…up to #7 now…

…and yet I’ve been phoned up 5 times in 12 days (including such friendly times of the day as 11:30pm and 6.20am) asking me to go into work and do extra shifts.

2 weeks holiday = I don’t want to work for 2 weeks. It’s not a hard concept is it?

Over the years I’ve seen many pictures of Barbie dolls played with in ways never imagined by Mattel. One-armed Barbie. Barbie and Ken making babies. Lesbian Barbie. Bondage Barbie. Today I’ve seen something which I don’t think can be topped — Menstruating Barbie.

Why would you

a) Decide that Barbie needed this bodily function?
b) Carry out the neccessary modification?
c) Photograph your work?
d) Post the pictures to the Internet?

(If you know the answers, I’d rather not be told)

I highly recommend heading over to Boing-Boing, and reading a highly informative piece on the creator of the neutron bomb.

…starts tomorrow. 2 weeks (well - 13 days) of bliss!

Microsoft -> Windows, a ’shiny’ look, and a yellow ring instead of a blue one. I’m also fairly sure that on the taskbar at 16×16px, that piece of yellow will look very odd indeed.

Hopefully, by now you’ve seen from our posts that there are a lot of new features and work going into IE 7. As part of this update, we’re refreshing our icon and logotype. We considered more radical departures from our current logo, but blue “e” with the ring is very recognizable and familiar to users, so we elected instead to make more subtle changes.

As you can see, the new “e” has more modern look, and the edges are a bit darker so the icon stands out better against different backgrounds. We liked the gold ring too since it brings in new energy and helps the icon pop a bit more than the old one.

This icon and text treatment will be used on the versions of IE 7 for Windows XPSP2, Server 2003 SP1, and x64 versions. We’ll have a slightly different look for the Windows Vista™ version, one that’s more consistent with the icons there. We’re not quite ready with that one yet, but we’ll share it here once we do.

Tony Chor (on the IEBlog)

In the spirit of ‘What’s wrong with Netscape 8 (parts one and two)’, I present the following screenshot presented to those updating from 8.0.2 to 8.0.3.3.

So if I upgrade, I get a bug that stops me downloading, as well as something undefined. Way to go Netscape!

Mind you, this is coming from a company that released 8.0.1 just 1 day after 8.0 to fix security issues, that had been fixed by Mozilla the week before, then had to release 8.0.2 because Netscape broke XML in Internet Explorer, and then had to pull the original 8.0.3 release because of various issues (including the aforementioned download bug). I’m assuming that screen is supposed to say that 8.0.3.3 fixed that bug, but given that release history, who knows?

I’ve just come across an absolutely amazing Star Wars rip-off, promoting organic food. Funny just doesn’t describe it. And wait till you see Yoda!

7.65Mb WMV file (mirrored here)

Original site

Just finished watching this.

Good points

1. Much better than S3
2. Nice to see some old faces return in unexpected ways - especially Mia Kirshner (below)

Bad points

1. No Elisha Cuthbert (also below)
2. You can’t ‘enhance/zoom-in to’ a out-of-focus, in the distance picture into something clear enough to read a license plate.

I also hope that in real life, the US doesn’t have 104 nuclear reactors connected to the internet so that people can hack into them…

Mia Kirshner

Elisha Cuthbert

Meetings should be like skirts.

Long enough to cover the important bits, but short enough to maintain interest.

Via Fark