I was having a tidy up at the weekend and took my webserver, wireless router and cable modem and put them up in the loft.

This should do for now, hopefully it wont get too hot in summer.

But whilst the modem and router were off for a day or so, I was re allocated an IP address by my ISP (Telewest Blueyonder) a bit of a nightmare when you're running web and email services.

Now the setup has it's own fuse and should never need to be powered down again.

As soon as I get chance I'll be looking into a solution from www.dyndns.org

I've been trying to upgrade from Simple PHP Blog 0.3.7 to the latest version today.

Some problems encountered, but easily fixed, the main problem was that the index page didn't display the latest set of blog entries.

The fix is to edit index.php, replacing this line:
get_latest_entry();

With:
// get_latest_entry();
$year = date('y');
$month = date('m');

And all works fine :-)

I have a feeling it will display only the latest entry from the current month, we'll see what happens in September.

Also...

Thanks to Leif Johnson for trying to help a fellow sphpblog user by responding to an email from a complete stranger - me!

Wednesday night BBC2 10:00PM "Citizens Required".

This guy, "King Danny", has set up his own country in his flat in London. The show takes you through his exploits looking for advise from various useful people around the world, such as the army and last night a prince who runs/owns a pricipality (small village) in Italy.

Very funny.

The website is cool too, www.citizensrequired.com
with various departments including Dept. of Looking and Sounding Nice

You can register as a citizen online - he's almost got the same 'population' as San Marino which has 28,000+

I just registered as a citizen, but I think I'll be declaring my flat as an Embassy and therefore become an Ambassador

Megan and I are spending a silly amount of money texting each other.

I found this tool:
WAP Chat (Built on PHP/MySQL) 1.9WRL

Seeing as we've both got 1MB of GPRS access per month, we could use this low bandwidth WAP interface to chat online on our mobiles - cheaper than texting and must more interactive.

Watch this space...

How to crash an application in zero clicks.

1. You've got a clint/server architecture and a login screen.
2. You're application has an inactivity timeout - set this to 2 minutes (if it is configurable).
3. Start your application.
4. Leave the application at the login screen.
5. Go make a coffee.
6. The application will crash if someone has failed to initialise variables involved with flagging the user as being 'logged on'.

This beats my previous personal best of crashing an application with only one click.

I suspect because of large timeouts this is an area of application that gets tested rarely - if ever.