 | 21 August 2002 |
Holly and Jessica Website
Cambridgeshire Police have put together a website where you can leave messages of condolence for Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman:
Soham Tragedy Website http://www.sohamtragedy.org.uk/
It's bound to be a busy site so please be patient
2:54:45 AM
Awkward Radio Moment of the Year
The Lesley Riddoch Show on Radio Scotland was doing vox pops in Aberdeen over the issue of the new proposed football stadium development. Lesley interviewed one young girl asking for her thoughts (she wanted to know would the new stadium have wheelchair access?) an executive back in the studio replied yes and the girl was happy with that. Then next up to the mike a "Mr Angry" type person, incensed that Lesley was "exploiting a Downs Syndrome woman". Lesley replied that she was just asking members of the public for opinions and was treating her like any other person in asking for an opinion. He was raging and clearly had some other agenda, claiming in broadest Aberdonian tones that one of the football execs "went wi prostitutes" and was quite convinced that his comments were going to be edited out (no so, it was a *LIVE* broadcast). The killer though was the original woman who came back to the mike with a plaintive question "...How did he know I had Downs Syndrome?..". Ouch.
1:35:14 AM Movable Type on Win32
As part of lookihg at publishing software I've just been installing Movable Type on Win32. I had most of the Perl modules already apart from Image::Magick. The usual faffing around with setting the shebang line to refer to perl.exe and renaming file extensions. But apart from that the only Win32 issue so far has been the calls to the 'flock' function in FileMgrLocal.pm and ObjectDriverDBM.pm, in true hacker style I've just commented these sections out but this will no doubt affect functionality but it's enough to get started. I notice there are a few people who've jumped ship from Radio to Movable Type. I'm such a news junkie I doubt if I could leave the news aggregator combined with blogging functionality provided by Radio but MT definitely looks like a candidate for another project I'll be working on next spring where being able to blog from any browser without needing a Radio client running would be a necessity. From a cursory nosey I think it would be much easier to create pages that validate using MT's templating mechanism as the HTML editor isn't quite so hard-coded. 1:10:03 AM © Copyright 2002, Scottish Lass, www.scottishlass.co.uk, Contact:
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