It seems like everyone is doing it – I know of at least two other codebases for a blog controller – which makes me wonder: is there a repository of drop-in components for the Catalyst framework, or are we all doomed to re-invent the wheel? I did ask on #catalyst about it, but having not …
I’ve spent the last week away, where I’ve had absolutely no Internet access at all. No WWW, no RSS, no email – not even any Twitter (although I did tweet a couple of times from my phone). It’s surprising (or not) how much “connected” time I’ve got used to – it was like a week …
So, it’s 2010 (however you like to pronounce it), it’s out with the old and in with the new! I must confess to having lived in a bit of a bubble for a while, not venturing out of my comfort zone, and so things got a little stale. No longer.
(Found this in my home directory – it came up on an IRC channel I was on, and I was bored) rar, tar, zip, arc, dmg ar, shar, cab, arj, rle 🙂
While I was waiting for a compile/unit test to finish, I noticed that one of the failed hard disks (a Maxtor MaxLine Plus II 250Gb ATA/133 HDD) I was using as a paperweight had two stickers on it. Having nothing better to do, I pulled the top one off, just to see what the changes …
Excitement outside the house tonight…
Just coming down from putting Alfie to bed, and there’s blue lights flashing outside the house. I live on a road that’s regularly used by the police/ambulance/fire service, so it’s not unusual. I’m taking the bin bags round to be collected in the morning, and there’s a police car stopped opposite the house. There’s something …
We’ve just adopted two new cats – got them today, and they’re settling in.
Google’s “I’m feeling lucky” button on their search was amusing when it first came out – you don’t get the search results, but go straight to the top hit. Useful for when Google searches actually came up with useful stuff instead of adverts (Back In The Day) but not so much now. It looks like …
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