11th February 2001, 09:24 pm
Since I’ve started my machine for the second time today, you’ll have to
read yet another piece of news… When new-news.sh (the script
responsible for making new news) is run, it’s kind of hard for me to
cancel the news. This is both good and bad: it forces me to write
something, but I may not write something interesting :-)
The same applies for the news-system here at gimpster.com. Originally it
was supposed to always show a certain number of news on a page. I should
be able to say something like “Give me the news from the past 14 days. If
there is no news, then give me the last five pieces of news.”. But I never
got to that part, so again this forces me to write something at least once
every 14 days.
11th February 2001, 04:46 pm
I’m back from the trip to Egholm. Fortunately I got a good nights sleep
last night, so I’m not as tired as Cookie. We had
a great time, so I’ve only read a little bit of the
book
I brought with me.
A couple of crufty guys brought a TV along with them. They had also brought
about 14 hours of The Simpsons with them,
since the TV had a built-in VCR. So I had a chance to catch up on the
episodes that I’ve missed.
9th February 2001, 04:34 pm
I’m going on a little trip this weekend. It’s nothing bit — it’s just me
and the rest of my class who have rented a cottage on a little island near
Aalborg, called Egholm.
I hope it’ll be fun, but as a precaution, I’ll bring a book with me that
I’ve borrowed from Cookie: Professional PHP
Programming.
It should be interesting to read it.
8th February 2001, 09:24 pm
Why is it that people try to grap gimpster.com with MS FrontPage? (I went
to www.microsoft.com to try and find a direct
link, but their search-form didn’t work. Lame…) It just won’t work — I
use PHP exclusively :-) When people request a missing document, I get a
mail like this:
Gimpster.com encountered a 404 Not Found!
$REQUEST_URI: /_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc
$HTTP_REFERER: $REMOTE_ADDR: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
$QUERY_STRING:
$HTTP_USER_AGENT: MSFrontPage/4.0
The mail is generated by my “404 — Not Found” page. Every time someone
makes an invalid request, I recieve a mail. It’s mostly spiders sent out
from search-engines, that try to follow old links, who trigger this.
8th February 2001, 02:21 pm
I’ve decided to try and make these updates more often. So I’ve added this
command to my ~/.xinitrc-file:
sleep 45 && $HOME/html/gimpster.com/include/news/new-news.sh &
What is does is this: first it sleeps for 45 seconds. After that, it opens
Emacs for me — ready to write some news. Let’s
hope it works :-)