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Conditional server side includes and cookies

GS — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:24:36 +0000

I can’t write PHP or Javascript. I could learn, but I don’t have much interest. Most of my websites are good old-fashioned static HTML and I use server-side-includes a lot.

I thought I would write, in simple terms, about some of ways I’ve used them.
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Speaker of the US House of Representatives infringes rights of music composer

GS — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:27:09 +0000

Incompetech.com is a wonderful website that offers hundreds of original music tracks for free use. Most are released under a Creative Commons licence (a few are now in the public domain) and the only stipulation is that you must include a credit for the composer: Kevin MacLeod.

It isn’t a lot to ask. But

Vaughn Lowery ad (video)

GS — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:27:53 +0000

Famous across America for being the KMart Joe Boxer underwear guy, now Vaughn Lowery has done a great ad for the Houston Chronicle.

More KMart/Joe Boxer ads featuring Vaughn here and here. How long before we see this talented guy on British TV?

Tony Blair appears on Big Brother

GS — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:35:47 +0000

A Rory Bremner sketch on YouTube.

Davina: You’ve been in there a long time.

Blair: Ten years, yeah.

Davina: So have you any idea what’s been going on in the outside world?

Malicious theft of video

GS — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:47:06 +0000

Within a few hours of me uploading my video about the Naked Bike Ride to YouTube, someone had uploaded it to a video-sharing site.

World Naked Bike Ride 2007: Manchester (video)

GS — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:08:06 +0000

Last night at 7pm, naked cyclists rode around Manchester city centre. They were protesting about oil dependency and car culture and celebrating ‘the human body and the bike’.

Sackville Park village fete (video)

GS — Wed, 30 May 2007 01:03:48 +0000

Sunday afternoon was the final day of the Queer Up North arts festival and a village fete was held in Sackville Park. There was a cake judging competition, stalls and a great punch and judy show.

Reports problems to your local council with Neighbourhood Fix It

GS — Sat, 19 May 2007 14:21:19 +0000

The Neighbourhood Fix It website is an effective way to highlight and report problems in your local neighbourhood.

The gay-village village-green?

GS — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:14:47 +0000

A notice has appeared on the wire fence that surrounds the land at the junction of Princess Street and Whitworth Street. This is the proposed site for a controversial eleven-storey building that, opponents say, will cast a shadow across Manchester’s gay village.

Countdown theme — extended electro version

GS — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:53:38 +0000

Remixed version of the Countdown theme. Love it. This should get the grannies grooving.