Reading time: < 1 min MySQL. How do you setup a new database? I know my host supports it, but that’s the limit of my knowledge. Rather than spend an evening aimlessly surfing I was kinda hoping someone out there would have some pointers/suggestions/offers of free help… Answers in the usual place please. [UPDATE: Found my hosts info on setting…
Reading time: < 1 min Last Thursday I suggested a collaborative joke, this is the outcome. I’ll let you decide it’s humour value (i.e. if it’s higher than zero…). A monkey, a dragon and a rat walk into a bar… The barman looks at the monkey and says…“I’ve seen plenty of rats in here but I’ve never seen one of…
Reading time: 2 mins “It’s nice to be nice” I used to think that was yet another cloying sentiment, a snippet of the wisdom of ye olde worlde. I used to scoff at people who said it, I used to mock them. Now? Now I’m turning into one of them. I consider myself selfish, self-serving and occasionally rude. I…
Reading time: < 1 min Apparently it will be getting quite cold in the UK over the coming week. Why it may get down to -10C or even, perish the thought, -15C!! What’s all the panic about? I guess the problem is the British ‘kinda nothing’ climate, anything that slightly deviates from the norm and it’s panic stations all round.…
Reading time: < 1 min Burns Night tonight. My Dad is the President of Dumbarton’s Burns Club (Association?). This year he has already sang at two Burns suppers, and has another eight to attend. Tomorrow night he travels to Dumfries to the Howff Club, which was formed in 1889. He told me a story this evening about the Globe Inn…