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And I still don't know what I'm writing!
November is upon me and after thinking (or indeed not thinking) about \[p]{NaNoWriMo|http://www.nanowrimo.org/} for the past 3 months, it's finally time to actually do something about it. Initial thanks for getting me into this mess goes to \[p]{Brenda|http://www.coffee.geek.nz} (are you doing it, eh?), though I have managed to rope someone else into doing it too (hi Travis).
So far I have decided what the main character's name is - if you must know, it is 'Casey Hill'. Even though I have gone through many changes about the type of novella I wanted to write, I've ended up making it a Science Fiction, though I think (or is that hope) it will be part comedy too. The reason I have ended up in this combination is so that I can make things up, don't have to do much research, and possibly get away with it :-) but not likely.
Apart from those two minor facts, I really don't know what else I'm going to put in it. The main (indeed essential) plan is to write 50,000 words in November and be able to say I've done it. Editing, tearing up of manuscript and open fires made of paper can come later.
Here are some other ideas I've had but whether any of them get into the novel will be decided on the throw of a dice:
And just to complete the list of things I might do, here's a list of things I should do, but probably won't since I'm not a novel writer, don't know what I'm doing, have no-idea why I'm doing it and will have no time for anything else:
(remind me, why am I doing this again)
Tomorrow night I start. Let's go.
Labels: science-fiction, nanowrimo, casey-hill
Inserted: 2006-10-31 23:18 (5 years, 3 months ago)
I've just added support for an archive so that past articles are now browsable.
Once an article has dropped off the front page, it really can't be accessed from this site :-( but only from external links to it.
So, a monthly archive is now available from the left menu.
The CMS also has support for yearly and daily archives as well as monthly ones, in fact, you can put any date and time interval you like (so long as Postgres likes it). Of course, it is restrained by the front end rather than the back-end, so you can't just go making up dates.
As an example, for October, you'd use 2006-10.html and for today you can use 2006-10-29.html.
Enjoy.
Labels: archive, kapiti-geek-nz, fli
Inserted: 2006-10-29 00:32 (5 years, 3 months ago)
Not really mine, but a Google Customisation
A lot of times, I want to be able to search photographers portfolios. I chance upon them, but want a way to search them afterwards, to find that picture of a place I've been or a place I want to see.
Of course, being able to do this up until now has been hard.
Enter Google's \[p]{new|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/eureka-your-own-search-engine-has.html} \[p]{Custom Search Engine|http://google.com/coop/cse}.
Anyway, I'm hoping that lots of people suggest new sites to add since it has a limited selection at the moment, Apart from the initial list of five sites, I can't seem to be able to add more - though I think they are going through some teething difficulties to be honest.
But it certainly looks promising for the future.
Inserted: 2006-10-24 22:58 (5 years, 3 months ago)
After playing with Amazon S3, I decided to write a little tool to help.
At the moment it is a first cut with no Debian packaging, but so far it has a nice amount of functionality.
You can create and remove buckets, list keys, add files, delete files but the best part is the ability to upload all missing files (in S3) and download all locally missing files.
At the moment, it doesn't do anything if the key exists and is the same name as a local file, but I did have some code to check the MD5 and upload it if it has changed. This gives the problem that you might have changed the S3 files from somewhere else, therefore I will write a 'diff' which will have to be used manually to upload/download the correct version of the file.
Oopse, I'm getting technical. Anyway, for now, it seems to work and does most of what I want. Go take a look at: s3bak at Google Code.
Inserted: 2006-10-22 23:43 (5 years, 3 months ago)
Phliky has had some improvements lately and is now on this server - quick test!
Phliky has had two things added to it recently:
Like this one:
: Coffee: Black hot drink Milk: White cold drink
Hopefully, they should work - fingers crossed. After all, I added nine extra tests to check the lists and two tests to check the definition lists.
Seems to work, except my CSS for the definition list is a bit out. Will be fixed another time :-)
Labels: phliky, css, unit-test
Inserted: 2006-10-10 22:47 (5 years, 4 months ago)
After uploading the executables yesterday, it now has packaging and has the heady status of being release v0.1!
Working with Google Code has been a joy so far. Not only can I use Subversion but I have also been playing with all of their groups pages too.
PgPatcher now has a \[p]{pgpatcher-discuss|http://groups-beta.google.com/group/pgpatcher-discuss} and \[p]{pgpatcher-commit|http://groups-beta.google.com/group/pgpatcher-commit} group each. Every time I commit, the latter group receives an email outlining which files have been changed.
Not only this, but for a different project, Phliky, in addition to the 'Discuss' and 'Commit' groups there is a new 'Issue' group which gets notified everytime an issue is changed in the issue tracker. It has taken a while to set up all these things, but now it's all working, I'm happy.
I guess my next step is to create a debian repository for all these packages.
Labels: phliky, pg-patcher, google-code, subversion
Inserted: 2006-10-10 22:30 (5 years, 4 months ago)
At 2006-10-09 11:05.
I was in my lounge again on the phone to my brother. It was a very short sharp shake though I wasn't too sure if it was just a wind blast or a quake. It kinda freaked me out since it was late though I said to my brother that I should check geonet. Sure enough, here it was...
\[p]{Geonet Link|http://www.geonet.org.nz/x2636389g_l.html}
Labels: earthquake
Inserted: 2006-10-10 12:26 (5 years, 4 months ago)
They have been uploaded to the Google Code repository for initial viewing.
Now that I have polished up the executables (bugs to be found), I will start on the rest of the repository, including the packaging.
They already have documentation in the form of POD and the packaging will make the man pages from them. There is also an example set of patch files which can show how PgPatcher and PgCreatePatch can help patch PostgreSQL databases.
Anyway, there are still things to write up about it all, but the first stop should be the PgPatcher Index page.
The original version of this script was written by Martyn Smith around a year ago. It was generalised and polished by me and after swearing I didn't like SF, finally decided to release it since Google Code is a lot nicer.
Happy hacking!
Labels: postgresql, pg-patcher, google-code
Inserted: 2006-10-10 00:21 (5 years, 4 months ago)
After being up and going for a few months, my first comment spam appeared. Time to brace myself...
I'm sure more and more will come, though at least I can reject it easily enough.
All the comment contained were a load of links to dodgy medicine (and non-medicine) based 'performance' enhancers etc etc Not that the links would show since I HTML-escape the comments, but still you could read them.
Which leads me to think I need another feature in my blog software. Once a comment comes in, I can either accept or reject it - generally I accept. This is just a status column in the blogs.comment table.
This leads me to think I'll add a delete button too. Even though the 'reject' works functionally (ie. it doesn't show the comment on the page) a 'delete' will also stop it taking up space in my database.
Not that I'm short of disk space (wouldn't that be bad), just that I'd rather it didn't exist at all.
Inserted: 2006-10-03 13:18 (5 years, 4 months ago)
After three attempts last week and failing miserably, I finally added multi-level lists to Phliky. I'm on fire!
It's Sunday night, I've been hacking and ripping the rest of my CD collection all day (minus the tip trip and the face food stuffing) and I'm finally ready to go to bed in peace...
The reason why is that I finally added multi-level lists to Phliky. I have numerous automated tests to try it all out and my previous efforts were all failing on the 2nd half. This time, I added some code and ran the tests ... it was perfect.
I even added one more which was a little weird and it still worked. I'm not going to release it onto this website yet since I'll probably make a v0.2 for it and I'll try it out another time.
Now I need sleep but can rest happy I've cracked it.
Inserted: 2006-10-01 23:32 (5 years, 4 months ago)
...or should that be 'Unleashed'
About a year ago, I wrote a progam called PollPod which I uploaded to \[p]{SourceForge|http://sourceforge.net/}. It did what I wanted and more, but with not really liking the SF interface and the fact that I didn't have an MP3 player, I let it rot. A little, okay, maybe a lot.
Since I bought my Sandisk Sansa e270, I decided to give it a bit of spit and polish and resurrect it for use on my new toy. Now it is simpler, has a proper manual and even better than all that, has Debian packaging :-)
So I had registered the PollPod name at \[p]{Google Code|http://code.google.com/p/pollpod/} (and accepted the transfer from SF (which worked fine). After a few days of cleaning up and clearing out, I have now uploaded v0.1 and created a branch and tag for it - oh how \[p]{Subversion|http://subversion.tigris.org/} is so nice compared to CVS.
Anyways, head over to the previously mentioned Google Code page or take a look at the \[p]{PollPod Discuss|http://groups.google.com/group/pollpod-discuss} or \[p]{PollPod Commit|http://groups.google.com/group/pollpod-comit} lists.
Right then. After a good day of getting myself together and uploading it all, I'm off to listen to \[p]{Chris Evans|http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/evans/podcast/}!
Labels: sansa, google-code, poll-pod
Inserted: 2006-10-01 22:17 (5 years, 4 months ago)
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