Apparently the cooking time is about the same as a conventional oven, due to the lava’s rapid temperature drop. Still, it could prove useful if one has somehow managed to go on a lengthy volcano expedition without packing a camping stove for that Game Hen you just happened to bring along.

How To Cook With Lava

Thomas Moss (1988 - 2006)

I’d never really been a cat person before I met Tommy - actually due to allergies I’d never been a pets-of-any-kind person. When I moved here to be with my darling Laura I knew that I’d have to get used to being around her pets, but what I didn’t expect was that I’d end up loving all three of them as though they were my own.

Tommy had been ill for quite some time with stomach cancer; during the last few days his condition had worsened to the point where he couldn’t bring himself to eat anything at all, as his body began gradually shutting down. We had been laying on our big corner sofa with him, trying to make his remaining time as comfortable as possible - I used to make a little bed for him with a small duvet and red blanket that he loved to lay on, so we got those out for him once again and put it in ‘his’ spot at the end of the sofa. We made sure that he knew how much his family (dogs included) adored him and that he got all of the love and affection he could ever need. These last few days have been a hellish, sleep-deprived blur for all of us, but at least now we know that he is not suffering.

I only knew him for just over a year - a small fraction of his amazing life - but the effect he has had on me will last for the rest of my life, and that is something I am truly grateful for. It was a privilege to have known the Greatest Cat In The World.

Tommy passed away at 8:07 this morning.

(Slaps forehead)

Redirect /wordpress/ http://www.welovecelebs.com/wp/

It all seems so simple now; I can’t believe I didn’t think of it sooner.

We had to move my wife’s celeblog to a new server (and new address) recently, as it’s popularity was threatening to eat up the bandwidth of the old one. Once all of the WordPress files had been copied over and all the MySQL tables had been edited to incorporate the new URL, I still needed to find a way to redirect requests for the old pages to the new ones. At first I just used a bit of quick ‘n’ dirty PHP but that wasn’t able to redirect specific posts to their counterparts at the new address, instead it would take visitors to a page that explained the server changeover and included instructions on how to find the post they were looking for.
Continue reading ‘Adventures in .htaccess Redirection.’

Eirik Solheim has produced a beautiful time-lapse video of the changing seasons in Norway. He took 44 photographs from a window at random intervals during a year then spliced them all together into one fluid, serene video.

See it here and heap lavish praise upon it’s creator.

Lamest anti-filesharing threat in the history of the world.

There are legal services for downloading music and movies. This service is not one of them.

YOUR IP ADDRESS IS 216.239.38.136 AND HAS BEEN LOGGED. Don’t think you can’t get caught. You are not anonymous.

Seriously, who do Grokster think they’re kidding? The only people that would ever be intimidated by lame crap like this probably have no idea what “P2P” means and have never downloaded anything worse than a novelty screensaver.

It takes approximately 1.6 seconds to circumvent their amazingly accurate (and quite possibly magical) IP logging system with any one of a million proxies, making this entire initiative an exercise in futility, that I seriously doubt will stop anyone from continuing to download files illegally. In the link above I figured I’d try out the inadvertent proxy Google creates when using their translation service set to “English - English”. Does this mean that Larry and Sergey will be awakened one morning by an RIAA SWAT team and find themselves hauled off to jail because one of their IP addresses showed up in this all-knowing Server Log of The Damned?

Well now, 2006… Hi there. I hope you all survived New Year’s Eve.
Laura & I certainly started the new year with a bang - well actually, a couple of them
Oh yes, I believe that I did in fact, just ‘go there’