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Mummy Hippy’s just had the results of her nursing exams today. She’s now a fully qualified “Registered Mental Nurse”.

At last she’s qualified to deal with me. 🙂

Well done Mum!

It’s official!

In moving my blog from Blogger to WordPress I took advantage of a little script included with wordpress to transfer everything over easily. I used a modified version that kept the comments (it’s not often I get ’em!). I had a bit of a problem with it, and on reading the comments on the developers blog, I worked out a lot of other people did too.

To cut a long (and technical) story short, I worked out what was wrong by using my usual debugging process.

I’ve posted my findings (and the fix – which actually fixes the problem rather than working around it like the other folks had suggested) on the developers website, along with the wordpress wiki, so it’s official!

I’m now a proper programmer. I can go on to rewrite windows and make it work, and create my own variation of Linux called “HippyNux”. Once I’ve got my phd, that is.

Then I’ll build the worlds first sentient computer, which will take control of all the world military installations and I’ll be single handedly responsible for wiping out the human race in a nuclear holocaust.

Or not.

UPDATE: The programmer has just let me know he’s going to add the fix to the download when he gets the chance. Whee! Fame at last!

Okay, this is definitely, positively, absolutely the last downtime and change of blog system for a while.

I’ve finally given in to persistent little comments by Angel and moved everything to wordpress. It’s also now hosted on my ‘old faithful’ host (http://www.supanames.com), so there shouldn’t be any downtime. Not only that, it has two addresses – .uk and http://www.hippyjim.org.uk so it should be easy to find!

Grrr.

Dratted spammers. I foolishly left the “image verification” off comments on my blog, which let a whole load of spammers attack that last post.

I’ve removed the comments, although the link to the alternative therapies was very useful (not).

The cyber-pest that annoys me almost as much as malware (viruses spyware et al) is spam. Unsolicited adverts plastered all over your email inbox, advertising things you really don’t want. Do they think it’s gonna drum up business? NO WAY! Most people I know refuse to read spam, and delete it straight away. They certainly don’t visit the spamvertised website, or buy the spamvertised product as a result. I won’t even if it’s something I REALLY want, on a matter of principle (but then, I’m a stubborn bugger).

I reckon we should start some kind of pledge – “We the undersigned hereby foreswear purchase or usage of each and every product that is advertised using aggressive, underhand or invasive methods, such as spam, pop-up adverts designed to trick the user, and misleading and confusing advertising of any kind. We also swear to discourage everyone we know from using the same products, and send complaints to the heads of all companies concerned.”.

We could be the Coalition Undertaking to Nullify Timewasting Spam.

Whadd’ya think?

Tired.

Can’t think.

Can’t type.

Can only picture pillows.

Yes, that’s right, it’s coming up to the end of the school holidays, so I have to go back to getting up early. That’s all well and good, but it’s sheer hell doing the switch from being up at 3 am on a regular basis, to getting up at 7.30 am every weekday. And I chose today to start it. Fool.

I think I might see if there’s a legal way to dispose of kids instead – does leaving them in a rough council estate miles from home count? Wythenshawe here I come…..

As I’m currently “dual booting” my PC, so I can get to grips with Linux before making the big switch, I’m going to keep my blog here – and maybe post to it once in a while.

We’ll see.