| Diary Entries |
Diary entries follow. |
| Date |
Info |
| 15 January 2006 |
My parents on the day of their Wedding |
| 24 Dec 2005 |
Micaela + Oliver + Father Christmas |
| 26 May 2004 |
Block those bots! |
| 29 April 2004 |
More free gifts: a Cache_Lite Maintenance class... |
| 26 April 2004 |
MySQL optimising + caching case-study: chips.php... |
| 18 April 2004 |
Installing PHP 4.3.6 on Red Hat Linux 8 (Pain #2)... |
| 12 April 2004 |
Documenting the php PEAR Date_TimeZone Class... |
| 6 Apr 2004 |
I consider setting up the DB awards... |
| 5 Apr 2004 |
Freeserve is changing it’s name to Wanadoo (Comment)... |
| 2 Apr 2004 |
The pain of installing PHP 4.3.5 on Red Hat 8... |
| 28 Mar 2004 |
Documenting the php-Pear Cache_Lite Class... |
| 26 Mar 2004 |
Documenting the php-Pear Date Class... |
| 20 Mar 2004 |
Cutting bandwidth costs + shortening download times with compression... |
| 14 Mar 2004 |
It’ not me spamming you, honest... |
| 05 Nov 2003 |
Incoherent ramblings about death... |
| 04 Nov 2003 |
Outage on the site this morning... |
| 03 Nov 2003 |
Optimising SQL statements - a practical walk through... |
| 21 Oct 2003 |
The latest picture of Micaela, my grand-daughter... |
| 16 Oct 2003 |
Panic - the .com site becomes unavailable... |
| 13 Oct 2003 |
Liisa’s mother, Josephine Guzman Rangel, has died today at 6:45 pm in the same hospital near her home at Salinas, California that had been giving her chemotherapy for a stomach tumour which had turned metastatic. A Rosary starts at 7pm, Sun 19 Oct at the Whitehurst-Muller Mortuary, and the funeral service will be 1pm Monday, 20 Oct at Madonna del Sasso, Salinas. She will be buried at the Queen of Heaven cemetery. A reception will be held after at the Church. God bless you Josie, and I am sorry that I kept calling you Susie. |
| 10 Jan 2003 |
My mother has died at 10 minutes past 8 in the morning at Dove House hospice in Hull, today. The funeral will be at 10 am on 20 Jan. No flowers - donations to the Hospice, please. |
| 08 Nov 2002 |
A PHP4 script to assist maintenance and crash recovery with MySQL tables... |
| 19 Jul 2002 |
My mum leaves hospital & starts chemotherapy... |
| 05 Jul 2002 |
A PHP script to parse Craig Hart's pcidev.txt file of PCI PnPs... |
| 23 Jun 2002 |
My mum is having problems... |
| 17 May 2002 |
As Microsoft announces yet another raft of security updates for Internet Explorer, I download Opera 6.2 with high hopes... |
| 16 May 2002 |
ValueClick's answer to my questions is to kick me off their network... |
| 11 May 2002 |
ValueClick banner clicks are going missing - fraud or lousy programming?... |
| 24 April 2002 |
Advertising banners added, plus CLID plus a new modem for me... |
| 08 March 2002 |
Do you ever get that ‘Doh’ feeling? [implementing Stats info]... |
| 25 February 2002 |
...and now an attempted house-break-in... |
| 17 February 2002 |
Goodbye TheCounter.com, but how come not Hello FastClick.com? + 6 month report... |
| 21 January 2002 |
Headaches and Muggings... |
| 18 January 2002 |
The use of PHP variable Variables... |
| 15 January 2002 |
Liisa gives birth to Micaela Skye Addison Kemp... |
| 14 January 2002 |
Current Database tables listing... |
| 12 January 2002 |
Links for Conexant SoftK56 Linux drivers added... |
| 10 January 2002 |
Football & fear of dying (not - as far as I know - connected)... |
| 25 December 2001 |
...and Merry Christmas to everyone (but not to British Railways) |
| 18 December 2001 |
A PHP Class for building Forms controls... |
| 17 December 2001 |
Backing up/Transporting the database... |
| 15 December 2001 |
Finding “missing” records (MySQL LEFT JOIN on NULL values)... |
| 14 December 2001 |
Security with PHP when receiving user input... |
| 09 December 2001 |
Using the PHP ternary operator... |
| 26 November 2001 |
Update on the new site construction... |
| 25 November 2001 |
Difficulties with PHP Types... |
| 24 November 2001 |
Adding columns to existing tables (ALTER)... |
| 22 November 2001 |
Avoiding a common PHP mistake with Select statements... |
| 20 November 2001 |
Reflections on my (nearly) death... |
| 11 November 2001 |
A free gift for PHP4 users that build Form controls... |
| 31 October 2001 |
Thoughts whilst travelling home from Windows XP training... |
| 28 October 2001 |
An earthquake today (really)... |
| 23 October 2001 |
Little bits of tidying up as Type tables are filled... |
| 21 October 2001 |
First PHP file to fill database tables... |
| 9 October 2001 |
Interim whilst constructing first PHP file to fill database tables... |
| 6 October 2001 |
Hiding include files (see 5 Oct) using the htaccess server file... |
| 5 October 2001 |
Testing the include file (see 4 Oct)... |
| 4 October 2001 |
Beginning now construction of PHP pages to fill the tables; first, Server-Side Includes and Database connection... |
| 2 October 2001 |
Still completing the first section of tables... |
| 1 October 2001 |
Now for what is, hopefully, the last tables of this section - the actual table of modems. Plus, some more child tables... |
| 30 September 2001 |
Continuing now the child tables for the Chipset manufacturers... |
| 29 September 2001 |
Now it's Chips with everything as yet more tables are created... |
| 25 September 2001 |
Continuing building the Tables... |
| 24 September 2001 |
Now to start building the Tables... |
| 21 September 2001 |
Having installed & tested Apache, PHP & MySQL I now face building the actual Database & supporting files for the new site... |
| 3 September 2001 |
In which Davin & Liisa fly on to a honeymoon in Hawaii, whilst all others return home... |
| 2 September 2001 |
In which Davin & Liisa plight their troth... |
| 1 September 2001 |
In which I meet Mark, miss England's 5-1 demolition of Germany & cycle through Lake Tahoe... |
| 31 August 2001 |
Friday saw 7 of us now set out from Salinas for Lake Tahoe... |
| 30 August 2001 |
Liisa's mum Josie hosted us all for a couple of days at her place in Salinas, North California... |
| 29 August 2001 |
The 5 of us set out for Gatwick on Wednesday to catch the Virgin flight VS041 to San Francisco... |
| 27 August 2001 |
A break from modems, Linux, databases & almost all the rest as I fly to California to witness my son's marriage to Ms Liisa Golightly... |
| 21 August 2001 |
First (ignorant) thoughts following the experience of installing Apache-PHP-MySQL... |
| 19 August 2001 |
Now adding the Database MySQL application... |
| 18 August 2001 |
Now adding the PHP4 (Hypertext PreProcessor) application... |
| 16 August 2001 |
The beginnings of the new site... |
| 18 November 1998 - August 2001 |
early entries... |
