Aquarionics

Arrrr! Ahoy and avast me wenches and scurvy sea-dogs, In true pirate style, I’m publishing MP3s that aren’t mine. In this case, it’s both relivant and something everyone should hear at least once.

The Million Pound Radio – Pirate Training Days

(This was a link, but it doesn’t work anymore because I’ve lost access to the hosting, and I lost the MP3 in a hard-drive crash. Sorry folks)

So, according to the Office of National Statistics:

About sixteen per cent of the UK population stated that they had no religion. This category included agnostics, atheists, heathens and those who wrote Jedi Knight.
Office of National Statistics 2001 Religon Statistics

Note: “agnostics, atheists, heathens and those who wrote Jedi Knight” heathens don’t exist. This irritates me, esspecially since I’m at a pagen wedding next week, it annoys me that the ONS are quite so dismissive.

Avast, landlubbers, for today be Talk like a pirate day, where rules be made that pirates always speaks in the present tense, says “Avast” lots, and refers to any females in the vacinity as “Wench”.

Then ducks. Quickly.

All punishments must be refered to as ‘Keelhauling’, money is ‘Booty’ etc.

Normal service will be resumed soon. Ish.

Avast.

Exactly one year ago, I was Hacking Winamp and eating Pizza in Cambridge. Exactly two years ago, I discovered I wasn’t the complete and total fuckup I thought I was and passed Uni, Three years ago #eddings suffered another falling apart thing, and four years ago I was mildly looking into the idea of getting one of these “Domain” thingies.

Today, I hacked RSS support into the Great Mysterious Work Project, hacked AqWiki calendar support a bit more (Code reuse in action. The calendar generator in AqWiki is mostly the same as the one that generates the Epistula archives, which was lifted from the NSD archives, which in turn was originally coded for the first draft of Project Nomical) and left work in Kings Cross at 18:00

I got home at twenty to nine. Train was delayed an hour whilst not one, but two trains were broken down in front of it. Gah.

Some modifications to my blogroll system. The old blogroll was hopelessly out of date. The new one (Which you can get by clicking “Toggle Blogroll” on the front page, right side) is generated on the fly from Aquaintances’ list of subscribed blogs (Actually, from the ‘ukblogs’, ‘geek’ and ‘people’ categories of it. Aquaintances is, as you may remember, my personal RSS reader).

This required something of a rewrite of Aquaintances’ file format (So that it stores the URL of the website as well), which means that the new version will break old configs. Not that anyone beyond me and LoneCat are using it, but hey. When I’ve done the two outstanding major fixes (Supporting last-modified (it does ETags, but not L-M) I’ll give it a proper release, until then the code lives online in The Projects Section

The new Blogroll doesn’t currently support the few websites I read that don’t do RSS (Anna Pickard, Melissa, Murky, Kieron, Adrian, LondonMark & Andrew Swann), of which I will continue on my occasional quest to get Mark & Adrian to use something better, probably design a screen-scraper for Murky’s, hope Blogger gives RSS to free users for the rest :-)