On Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012, I told my girlfriend to meet me at my parent’s house for dinner. When she arrived I had stationed my brother to sit her in the back of an open Honda CRV and give her some headphones. He “wanted to play her a song”… What she got instead was the world’s first Live Lip-Dub Proposal. Damn onions.
Movies
No. I am your father
Happy birthday Star Wars! Apparently you’re 35 today! I’m not a fan of you though. I only saw this scene in French while I was an exchange student in the town of Morlaix in Brittany many years ago and other films I saw in English had such wooden acting I had to stop watching. My son is a fan though but only from the Lego games. In a bizarre twist, he knows the main characters yet hasn’t seen the movies. Even though I never saw this scene in English I still thought the quote from this scene was, “Luke, I […]
Linux
Mount box.net drives in Linux
I was one of the lucky few to receive a 50GB upgrade from box.net, (or box.com where they now live, marketing fail?) when I installed their Android app. I don’t have a use for that much storage on my phone but on my desktop machines? Oh yes! This forum post describes in detail how to mount a Box drive on a Debian/Ubuntu machine although the instructions will mostly apply to other systems too as long as they have the davfs2 package. There is a gotcha. Instead of using http://www.box.net/ you can use https://www.box.com/ which is a good gotcha. Also, I’m […]
WordPress
WP Super cache 1.1
This is a bugfix release of the full page caching plugin WP Super Cache for WordPress. Not much has changed in the week or so since I asked for testers but in case you missed that post here are the changes since 1.0: Use $_SERVER[ ‘SERVER_NAME’ ] to create cache directories. No more non existant blogs appearing in your cache supercache and blogs folders. Only create blogs cached directories if valid requests and blogs exist. Only clear current blog’s cache files if navigation menu is modified Added clean_post_cache action to clear cache on post actions Removed garbage collection details on […]
C64
My early memories of programming
My earliest memories of programming are directly related to the pain of not being able to save my work. The first proper computer my family owned was a Commodore Vic-20. I guess my parents bought it in 1984 or 1985 but it might have been earlier. The Vic-20 came out years before but this was recession hit 80’s Ireland. I’m pretty sure the computer was bought in O’Callaghan’s shop, where the betting shop is now on Pembroke Street. I remember copying a flying bird BASIC listing from the Vic-20 manual one school morning, and I think I made it fly […]
WordPress
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted
WordPress uses memory. Plugins and themes use memory. New versions of software may use more memory than before. When that happens and PHP on your server doesn’t have enough memory then PHP will stop with a fatal error like this: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1203208 bytes) in /home/*****/public_html/wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php on line 4215 This happens quite a bit but it’s not a bug in WordPress or your new plugin or theme, you simply need to let PHP use more memory on your server. Thankfully WordPress makes it easy to do this. You must define […]
Ireland
Batman Says No
The Fiscal Treaty approaches. Batman will vote NO and fight on against all odds. Favourite part? Gilmore as Two Face, or the explanation for the Joker’s name. (via)
Android
The amazing self charging Android phone
Some things never change. Both Android phones I’ve owned (Samsung Galaxy S 1 & 2) have this weird bug where the phone turns itself off and when reset by removing the battery the charge level has gone way down. I woke early this morning to discover the PIN unlock screen so I guessed the phone had rebooted. When I checked the battery levels I saw this. The battery suddenly lost a huge chunk of charge sometime during the night but over the next few hours seemed to recharge itself. I’d say it’s magic.
Humour
Welcome to Life
Tom Scott looks at what a corporate sponsored and controlled afterlife might be like. Creepy. That’s why you must choose The Pirate Bay as your primary healthcare? provider.
Games
Robot Enrichment
I just noticed that Portal 2 now has a store where you can modify your robot. I like the way Valve monetize their games. They bring out free DLC, expanding older games with updates and offering them either free (TF2) or at a steep discount. Then they encourage you to buy hats and personalise your character! Nothing like some of the other grind to play free games I’ve played elsewhere. Two games spring to mind, both free Android games. Samurai vs Zombies and Garfield Defense. Both play in exactly the same way even though they are apparently by different developers. […]