http://kierandelaney.net/blog my website and stuff. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:09:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Simon - I know you're scared because I'm your friend and I'm getting married.... but think about me! Shelley put down a deposit on her dress, so thats the two big things done - the venue and the dress, whilst the flowers and (we think) the cars are sorted. We've seen ... http://kierandelaney.net/blog/2008/07/04/new-car-wedding-dress-deposit-paid-adulthood-beckons/ Eventually..... I managed to fix the cache issues. Turns out 90% of them were caused by people who didn't have a cache folder. Tsk. I spent 6 months trying to fix a problem that wasn't there. :| Anyway, started coding up relative dates and a date cut off today so that ... http://kierandelaney.net/blog/2008/06/14/simplelife-13-release/ There are plenty of well documented methods to calculate the difference between two dates. However its not so easy when you don't have a date type, but a string which represents a date. You could turn the string into a date, then do some math and come up with a ... http://kierandelaney.net/blog/2008/06/05/php-calculate-difference-between-dates-as-strings/ Started On: - 15th May 2008 Finished On: - 25th May 2008 Peter Crumb is not a good man. The 7 days of Peter Crumb is not a good book. I am unimpressed. The whole book, its like written, of course it is, in this faux conversation (you ... http://kierandelaney.net/blog/2008/06/03/the-seven-days-of-peter-crumb/ Check this photo - looks pretty horrific really: And as this article states: Washington is laid to waste. The Capitol is a blackened, smoking ruin. The White House has been razed. Countless thousands are dead. This is the apocalyptic scene terrorists hope to create if they ever get their hands on a ... http://kierandelaney.net/blog/2008/06/02/daily-mail-outdoes-itself-with-fear-factor-overload/ The entire internet is awash with theories, ideas and speculations about Lost and its great big dissapointing season 4 finale. Here's what I think happened: Lost was a really good idea for a tv show. Really mundane crash land on an island and survive type show. Then some cocky young shit of ... http://kierandelaney.net/blog/2008/06/02/lost-interest/ Ok, so the plugins have hit the ground for like 5 months. Fear not - they are back on track as of now. I'm looking for someone with subversion experience to keep the official repository up to date with latest releases. If you're interested let me know. Anyway the reason its ... http://kierandelaney.net/blog/2008/05/28/pluginsgetting-married-an-update/ Started On: - 15th May 2008 Finished On: - 25th May 2008 There's two things wrong with Sci Fi. Ridiculous oneupmanship permeates the genre, with each new author and each new book daring to create bigger better universes with more aliens and more technology and more fear and ... http://kierandelaney.net/blog/2008/05/28/broken-angels/ Started On: - 26th April 2008 Finished On: - 7th May 2008 This book should be amazing. Its about Zombies. Its a survival guide for the end of the world. Surely, it shouldn't fail?! Unfortunately it just doesn't hit the spot. Its not funny. Its not clever. Its not ... http://kierandelaney.net/blog/2008/05/07/the-zombie-survival-guide/ That sounds like a complicated task in itself, without even considering how unhelpful MS Excel can be.... What exactly am I trying to achieve?! How frequently does this need occur? I work with massive spreadhseets. Sure I should probably use a specific database application, but seeing as Access sucks balls and ... http://kierandelaney.net/blog/2008/04/30/244/