Strange sight in Dawley. One of a number of unusual evening skies of late. The fluffy balls, in particular caught my eye.

1319 Also posted to: personal . At: 7:47:00 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: Strange red fluffy clouds in a near turquoise blue sky

Landing and take off sound effects also feature on the large TB2 Playset which includes opening cockpit to insert Virgil and Gordon bendable micro figures, safety winch and a concealed pod for TB4, these should hopefully begin release sometime very soon. New Soundtech Vehicle 2-packs with bendÕem Action Figures are already in the market place and wonÕt be on the shelfs for long. These are from some Australian company. Bradley and I spent a couple of hours in Ironbridge< been there loads: on a drizzily day, for ice creame, this time for once, we're just two. I bought him, correction, he bought it in the second hand shop for a tenner. We'd bought cream tea for me, carrot cake and lemonade with a straw. Been on the bridge, and into the toll house exhibition/shop. Where he called me out because I wanted to read the exhibition plaques. I kept telling him the shush, but, we had to leave at his insistence. Bradley lost his sticker the collectors gave to us as we walked over first time, so I gave him some more and he raced off, took a bit of shuffling before they paid him any attention, but he did it all and came back as happy and cool with a sticker on his desert baseball cap. Into the second hand shop, he spotted a toy house with buttons on the floor, I spotted the TB2 on the shelf, brought it down for him, and two look later to the house he was fully into the Thunderbird. The sound came on, the middle plopped out, door opened to see little Thunderbird 4. "Let's go see the rest." I persuaded him to follow me out to the back, where the bulk of the toys are kept as Amanda called us back on the mobile. "Shall we get the Thunderbird 2 'let's get to work'?" Bradley nodded. As about as definate as Bradley gets. I gave him a tenner, said, "go get it, bring it to the lady." He stood at the counter first, and the lady looked at the tenner, for a moment we were stuck, "you have to get it first, Bradley." So he did. Bought. "Do we want it in a bag Bradley?" No shook Bradley's head. So, we played with it walking back to the car, finding the buttons to let down the legs, and the grapple. Brilliant, included batteries. 'Thunderbirds are go, let's get to work' I translate the rest of the poignant catch phrases as we drive home. Bradley waves it pretend flying, vrooooom, eeeerrrrrrmmmmm, zoosh, zoooosh...

1318 Also posted to: personal . At: 11:51:29 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: Thunderbird Two and Bradley in Ironbridge

We're now running the latest and greatest version of Frontier. Only a few old page bugs to sort out, nothing to do with the installation itself. Seems to be running quite smoothly serving around 20,000 page views a day.

"Spare a thought, report a bug."

Looking for more bugs.

"You are nice to me," says Bradley. "Can I do work too?" Being pestered by Bradley, ain't all that bad. He disappears fairly quickly. Esme's at school, so he's all alone. Well, Amanda's with him too. But I thin he feels a bit like he's rattling around in a big house all alone without his bigger Sis.

1314 Also posted to: personal . At: 10:30:55 AM  . .
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"A tool to make a backLogRSS file of all the posts which ever category they went to.

New! You can now decide what categories combine to form your backLogRSS. Indeed, it's possible to produce several files, one each for each category regardless if it was posted to the front page or not." I've updated my tool.

I suddenly had some clarity of thought, and saw that what was very difficult, was extremely easy.

1313 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 1:18:08 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: Convert all Radio post into one RSS file

Amanda nearly cried. But she thinks she's the bee's knees now. And loves it. Even getting up early to get into her uniform.

1309 Also posted to: personal . At: 11:51:21 AM  . .
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"Bug fix. Please update your tool by going to your Radio app Tools menu ==> backLogAllRSS == Refresh code..."

Bugs, this damn thing has been plaguing me for months, finally I track it down and <falls off chair> it's my own damn bug!

Apologies to those who've experienced this one. It was hard to track down, as it was occurring in the process macros calls. Which are hard to spot as they look like they're in the kernel, but if you press step in the debugger, on the kernel call in the processMacros script, you can press in and out of all the macros that occur in the page you're debugging at system.verbs.builtins.html.buildObject. I remembered you could do that before the macro was kernalised but didn't realise that you could continue to debug, even there.

See where you catch the processMacros call in buildObject? Then press step to the hand in processMacros where I thought I'd lose it in the kernal.

But, by pressing in here, you go to the first macro in your page (including the template, this is in the final run through processMacros in the pagefilter part of building a page, just after the page has been added to the template.) My bug was in the radio.macros.weblogEditBox where at, the very bottom, it, unexpectedly, then  calls radio.macros.weblogRecentPosts, even though it's in my template as a stand alone macro.

Nice. Even if it took me months to discover. And then that it was my own bug!

1307 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 6:00:51 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: Radio UserLand : [Ann] Sex with Feedster (or export ALL your posts in RSS:-)*

They can track you through your cell phone, so why not your DVD player? Microchips planted in electronics, computers and other household objects will alert the cops to any sudden change in location, which might suggest theft.

 Source: Wired News; 11/09/03; 12:45:19 pm.
1306 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 4:08:16 PM  . .
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Ah! A little, little bit of time to have fun and enjoy myself at my computer. I've been busy, busy, these past two weeks. Working over the weekend, working till 2 in the morning, deadlines, presentations and new business meetings has had me flitting from one end of town to the other.

So I listen to Led Zeppelin's "Babe, I'm gonna leave you" over and over on continuous loop, as I have been for the past 5 days. Marbleous, as Bradley would say.

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Across the road from our house is a pub car park that's never used. My bright idea, now Esme always wants to go there. Sometimes Bradley takes the tricycle others it's Tractor Tom.

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I seez to him, tell me Tone, am I fat? Yes, he says. No, no, I tell him, tell me the truth! Am I FAT! Alright, he says, you're fucking fat.

1266 Also posted to: personal . At: 2:29:08 PM  . .
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Apple's iTunes is put to the test. Though if you're outside the US or use a PC this isn't an action you can or may not want to play in, it nevertheless questions the legality of (re)selling music online, and brings up spectors of file swapping.
Though the price has shot up from 99¢ to $100,000. If only that price was true.

"You are bidding on the song Double Dutch Bus, a remake by Devin Vasquez of the Frankie Smith classic. I don't know what he's saying, but it's still a good song!"

1265 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 12:46:56 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: eBay item 2555673237 (Ends Sep-09-03 21:16:24 PDT) - Double Dutch Bus by Devin Vasquez