Rogue Tory

For those of you who didn’t know, we decided to bring in the new year in style by having a house party at the place where I live in Manchester (well, actually there were various plans being thrown around until it was decided on a house party and as usual I opened my big mouth […]

Ok, I know this is technically a few minutes late (due to me being absolutely shattered and travelling all over the place in the last 24 hours), but I wish everyone a Happy New Year for 2005.

After requests from several people (including Samir), I’ve incorporated an RSS feed into my site. In common with the rest of Rogue Tory, I wrote the code myself rather than finding someone else’s solution—and in fact it wasn’t particularly difficult because at the end of the day the feed is just a simple plain text […]

After nearly two days of solid PHP/MySQL coding, I’ve managed to get my new weblog system into a state where it can be used by the general public. It now supports commenting and displaying of entries by year/month/day/individual entries using some fancy mod_rewrite magic (ok, not that fancy, but it works!) to make the URLs […]

After much deliberation and mulling over specifications, I finally went out and bought the components for a new computer. My flatmate Mike helped me assemble it, and it’s now handling DNS requests for my local network at home in Bury, plus it hosts and provides the DNS for two of my domains. It’s also running […]

Now that I’ve finished for Christmas and have some spare time on my hands, I’ve finally got down to working on my new weblog system properly. Already the main page is done, the archive page is on the way and the pages for individual months/days will use almost exactly the same code and therefore should […]

I’ve just managed to delete my entire Compsoc inbox in one fell swoop by telling mutt to move files from the mail spool to my home directory, and then deleting the mbox file because I thought I’d backed it up. 🙁

I’ve got some spare time this weekend for once (woohoo!), so I’ll hopefully get cracking on my blogging system. I already have the design plotted out and the templating stuff is ready, so it’s mostly a matter of getting posts from the database and letting people comment on entries. I’ll probably write entries directly in […]

We went to the Frog and Bucket in Manchester with Warped tonight, and what a good laugh it was. Some of the acts were absolutely awful (fortunately we had one of the three cards to boo people off) but one or two showed actual comedy talent. Best of all, I managed to win a bottle […]