libertus

What better way to celebrate the annual atheist festival of Bah’umbug than with good friends, good food, good drink and no presents?

Listening to a call-in on C-SPAN on BBC Parliament, about Hilary Clinton running for U.S. President^*. A caller…

I have no problem with her being a woman.
I have no problem with her, period.

“Ooooohhhhh….”, he cringed during the pause, knowing what was coming. “That’s full stop!”

If you can see this post it means my normally steady stream of balderdash and nonsense has dried to a trickle. Don’t worry! I’m alive but working on other things, likely focused on generating income. This means I cannot pay much attention to my blog but doesn’t mean I’m ignoring my delightful readers.

Your patience may be rewarded. If you want to know more, ask!

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I logged my first dive for the third time today. I’ve paid £3.95 for one month in which time I can log as many dives, write as many stories and make as many changes as I please.

Tonight I would have been able to turn the lights in a room on and off from a link on my blog. I decided not to do so because it would have been irritating when Google and MSNbot dropped by. To compensate, I watched my friend switch the light on and off using his mobile phone. That was cool.

Is the internet changing the way we communicate? Evidence from the #xml IRC channel on freenode.

[10:19] <waloo>

<baby firstname=”Swann” lastname=”Bonhomme” gender=”M” weight=”3960g” father=”Stéphane” mother=”Maria” date=”1/09/2006″ hour=”7:04 am”/>

[10:35] <Libertus>

<congratulations/>

[10:38] <atsugnam>

<xsl:if test=”//user[@nick=’waloo’]/*[last()]”><say>oooh isn’t he cute….</say></xsl:if>

[10:42] <Libertus>

May his XPaths in life produce bountiful node-sets

“Smiley” Peformance Monitor plugin for WordPress

As there have been reports of dramatic slow-downs after upgrading to WordPress 2.0.4, and my blog is still running 2.0.3, naturally I wish to investigate these reports prior to upgrading. I could wait for the WordPress developers to do this, but I’m impatient. WordPress 2.0.4 contains a critical security fix that I wish to apply, among others. I don’t want to sacrifice performance for a tiny amount of extra safety.

I previously investigated the memory use of WordPress 2.0.2. I shall build upon that work to introduce execution timestamps and database queries into the performance graph. I shall then directly compare the performance of 2.0.3 and 2.0.4 on the same dataset - my blog, of course!

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Or, in this particular case, a futile attempt at outright deception.

Menu and plugin tweaks indeed! If I believed that, I might never have noticed the ever-so-vital change to line 364 of admin-functions.php.

Automatically Backup All Wordpress Databases On A Server by Niklas Lindblad.