http://lambcutlet.org Jonathan Stanley's little corner on the Internet where he muses on life, phpBB (PHP Bulletin Board), (X)HTML, CSS, Web Standards, Science, Technology and whatever miscellaneous stuff that takes his fancy. Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:36:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My maternal grandmother, 85 years of age, died in the early hours of August 24th, 2007. She parted us peacefully in her sleep with family by her bedside after a final two week long, strong and dignified fight; having had many years of gradually deteriorating health. As a survivor of the ... http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2007/08/24/in-memoriam-maternal-grandmother/ Dear DJ-ing friend Tracy can be such a moody bitch at times! ;) Put a smile (struggled to find a photo, sorry Traysay :P) back on her face by sponsoring her 10 kilometer run at Bristol’s Ashton Court Estate on the 30th of September to raise money for Cancer Research ... http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2007/07/04/sponsor-tracys-10km-run-for-cancer-research-uk/ Having been using an Asus A7Jc since the last quarter of 2006 (having got rid of the old Samsung) and running Windows Vista since day one (pre-RC1 (build 5536), RC1 (build 5600), RC2 (build 5744) and now the released retail version (build 6000)), even the foresight of maxing out the ... http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2007/06/23/3-2-1-vista-readyboost/ It was way back in the beginning of December 2003 with what was then phpBB 2.1 Milestone1, over the course of 4 and a bit years with the announcement on the 14th of January, 2005 by Paul “psoTFX” Owen (ex-Lead Developer) that phpBB 2.2 had evolved to become phpBB 3.0, ... http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2007/05/20/olympus-almost-conquered-phpbb3-rc1-released/ Nick Broomfield’s “Ghosts (鬼佬)” premièred on More4 a week or so ago and is about the Morecambe Bay cockling disaster which occurred back in 5th of February of 2004 (15th day of the 1st month by the Chinese calendar, so it was also “Little New Year”, that is: 元宵節 (Lantern ... http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2007/04/29/ghosts/ Sometimes a single image says it best: Most users ever online was 8680 on 19 Mar 2007 01:28:47 Perhaps there was some wisdom in Bertie feeding the server some honey in trying to make it go faster? ;) Sometime we just have to think on our feet. :D http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2007/03/19/eeek-its-phpbb-dot-com/ As much as I like Microsoft’s recently released Windows Vista as an improvement over Windows XP (though ironically, “vista” means “chicken” in Latvian :P) and using it right now (the pre-release Release Candidate 2 version, having registered for the Community Preview Program back in 2006), it has chronically pissed me ... http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2007/02/22/bad-vista-petition-prime-minister-blair-to-end-vista-rip-off/ I’ve seen many many oddball things on the Internet, though never would have thought I’d come across anything that’d evoke childhood memories of 香港 (Hong Kong) visiting friends & relatives of my late mother on the crowded government housing estates where there was a constant cacophony of various Chinese dialects ... http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2007/02/01/da-xiao-ren/ Let’s do the Bertie dance! :D It’s been a long 2 months since the last beta, though today we’re proud to announce the availability of phpBB 3.0Beta5! This fifth beta release marks the last leg of the beta testing phase as the next milestone shall (hopefully) be Release Candidate 1, ... http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2007/01/28/conquering-olympus-phpbb3-beta5-released/ Have updated the rather dusty “About Me” page, as it was penned during the time I was really fresh out from my 2nd complete decade as opposed to rapidly approaching my 3rd… ho hum! http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2007/01/22/the-non-post-post/ Woowee… everyone’s favourite cut of spring lamb served so rare it still goes “baaah!” with a side-dish of my ramblings is back! However it wasn’t with the redesigned relaunch as I’d wish due to the fact I’ve been rather busy with everything else in this so called life. Still, today is ... http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2007/01/07/the-resurrection/ It’s amazing what difference a fortnight makes as today marks yet another next milestone, phpBB 3.0Beta4’s release! New with this release is the Update System which shall serve in updating installs of phpBB 3.0.x line. A sample Beta3-to-Beta4 update has been provided for bug testing purposes though should not (read: must ... http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2006/11/27/conquering-olympus-phpbb3-beta4-released/ You know it’s no coincidence that the Cassini space craft spotted a hurricane-like storm measuring 8000km (5000 miles) across with wind-speeds of 550kph (350 mph) at Saturn’s south pole on the eve of phpBB 3.0Beta3’s release, because though that storm is monstrous (it’s two-thirds the diameter of Earth!), once the ... http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2006/11/12/conquering-olympus-phpbb3-beta3-released/ As I no longer need the laptop I’ve been using for the last year and a bit, it’s listed up on eBay for anyone wanting to buy it. Bidding ends on the 24th of October31st of October10th of November21st of November… (3rd4th time lucky, fucking time-wasting bastards) http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2006/10/14/my-laptop-for-sale/ I shall briefly unlurk to announce the availability of the 2nd release milestone in the form of phpBB 3.0Beta2! It’s been a very long road of 4 years and 105 days (if I’ve done my Maths correctly) to get this far on the phpBB Teams’ collective baby. Since Beta1’s release on ... http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2006/08/12/conquering-olympus-phpbb3-beta2-released/