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Kieran — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:00:59 +0000

So another month and a half passes. Life continues to throw challenges in my path which coupled with my general lethargy means I’ve been slacking on the film front, as well as the completion of other things I should have polished off by now.

Still, I’ve now seen 27 of the top 250 that I need to see before the year is out. That’s way behind but still doable. I’ve subscribed to LOVEFiLM for my film needs as they have pretty much every film on the list. Some will be a challenge, especially very old films such as those starring Charlie Chaplin, as the DVDs seem to be quite rare.

Spam, spam, spam, spam…

Kieran — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:43:00 +0000

Although I imagine its not on the levels that the most popular blogs get, I’m getting hit with quite a lot of comment spam. Akismet is doing a sterling job of catching it all luckily though I can only imagine how much rubbish could get into an unprotected blog.

Tidying up a bit

Kieran — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:39:52 +0000

I’ve had a bit of a cull on the various banners that appear on the top of the screen as some of them I’ve gone off of. Now I must resist the temptation to upload a tonne of Guild Wars shots into the header!

Gametag database submissions

Kieran — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:42:58 +0000

Post host move, I have squashed all the bugs and am ready to accept submissions for the OcUK gamertag database again here

There are now over 160 gamers on the list, hope you are all finding it of use!

Moved host!

Kieran — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:50:37 +0000

I’ve made the jump to Vidahost, though if its all gone to plan you shouldn’t be able to tell at all!

Please let me know if you find any 404s or other strange goings on.

One thing I’m glad about is that the single quote bug seems to have fixed itself. You may have noticed if you enter a comment with a single quote, for example I’ve, it would appear as I`’ve. The only solution was to enter single quotes as the html entity & # 3 9 ; which was a pain in the rear end. No one as yet has seemed to nail down the bug, it seems to possibly be some kind of misconfiguration in PHP. So it would seem my new host doesn’t suffer from this.

Moving host

Kieran — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:58:12 +0000

I'm moving web hosts over the next few days so there will be no new posts until the domain and pages have been moved.

See you all on the other side!

Gamertag page improvements

Kieran — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 14:53:29 +0000

I've added some code that allows you to sort the columns by forum name or gamertag name so that if you are trying to match a gamertag up to a forum user, its a little quicker. Let me know if it doesn't work or misbehaves in some way!

That will be all the additions to the page. I might try and make a more advanced page soon where it will list the user's gamerscore etc, but I want to keep the current page nice and simple, so its fast and easy to use.

Gamertag database for the Overclockers forums

Kieran — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:51:37 +0000

I spend much of my time on a forum called Overclockers UK, or OcUK for short (link) and from there I have built up a list of people I play on the Xbox 360 who I can be (fairly) sure are not cheaters, whingers or any of the other annoying types on Xbox Live. One annoying thing though is that not everyone uses their forum ID for their gamertag, so I loose track of who is who. So partly for my benefit, and partly because I think it'd help over on the forums, I've created a database of forum IDs and gamertags here.

Its powered by a PHP script that fetches the info from a table. Normally you can't call PHP code from a Wordpress page but I found a plugin that will let you: runPHP. I was a bit concerned that if the plugin broke it would expose the PHP and perhaps let those nasty script kiddies into my database so all the PHP code does is include another separate script somewhere else on my website. PHP security is not my speciality, I'm sure I'll soon find out if I left any holes anywhere!

Playing with K2

Kieran — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:27:13 +0000

I've installed and played around with the K2 theme (http://getk2.com/) and already managed to break it a couple of times requiring a 'reinstall' by trying to put some funky PHP into its PHP module. I should really learn to write plugins instead. I've also added a page showing all of the header pictures on the site here.

Yet another sidtheturtle.co.uk website

Kieran — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:00:44 +0000

Every so often I put some content up on this website and then quickly forget about it. So now I've installed WordPress so that its so easy to add content, I have no excuse not to! I never seem to be able to come up with content though, so this is an experiment to see what form the site eventually takes and who knows it might one day actually have a recognisable theme or form.

So what is this site? Well its not a blog. Because I hate that word. Its a personal site that describes what I'm up to, what news or comment I have on subjects and useful info or links.

So yeah its a blog. *Shudder*