boah.us - the lunacy within

Recently I bought a new CPU, motherboard and RAM, and as I’ve been doing for some time set about trying to overclock it.

A while ago I bought an Icy Dock MB-559 external enclosure (which lets you swap drives by means of attaching a tray/carrier to the drive and slot it into the enclosure, but that’s an aside), and conne

Spurred by Neil’s recent tinkerings over at QPRToday, I went and did something I’ve been meaning to do for ages: Do a slight face lift.

This one, in a programming and geeky kind of way, is very funny.

I just completed an upgrade of the site from Drupal 4.6 to the newest 5.1 release. The upgrade went fine and without any problems, and everything seems to be working as before.

It does exactly what it says on the tin.

If you ever wondered how to, here’s a page that, despite being old, is still quite funny. In a geeky way, of course.

If you haven’t yet been to Uncyclopedia, it’s well worth spending a bit of time reading some of their articles.

A wiki can be a very nifty little thing in some situations.

In doing a quick search for the (programming) language Squirrel, I stumbled across this article about another squirrel language. A secret one, apparently. Looks like it hasn’t been cracked yet, although the article is a year old by now. Oh well, happy squirrelling!

As a developer you regularly run into code that just boggles the mind. It's when you scratch your head and the brain goes "eh?". Sometimes it goes "eeeh eeeh eeeh" like Ann in Little Britain.

Then a colleague pointed me towards a site that is dedicated to such WTF moments. Without further ado, pop over to The Daily WTF and be amused.

I suppose it was only a matter of time until the spam robots found out that anonymous comments were enabled. So I had to disable them - and I truncated the comments MySQL table.

Fuckers.

After a rather tedious job of moving the content across to the new site and content management system, it's all finally done - all the series and stories.

Moving along, quite a bit more of the content has been moved across from the old site. Up to date now is Little Red, Frequently Answered Answers and The Mighty Boa Constrictor - the latter one with two new chapters.

Still missing is Unlucky Brian and all the stand-alone stories.

While continuing the Drupal Experiment and trying out various nice themes, I ran into a bit of a problem with some themes appearing for an instant in a very basic and unstyled format before the CSS kicks in and lays out the page the way it's meant to be shown.

After some trial and error, these problems manifested itself across various themes and across various theme engines in Drupal, so the initial suspicion that PHPTemplate might be at fault proved to be wrong.

Among various experimenting and fine-tuning of Drupal, I am slowly moving the content from my old site to this one. It's a bit of a tedious job, but I just finished importing the Little Red series. The other bits are still missing right now, so any non-existent links will point you back to the main home page area.

I just realised that my web space provider has the mod_rewrite module of Apache enabled, so this combined with a little editing of the htaccess rules for the Drupal folder, enabling the Clean URL option in Drupal itself and using Drupal's Path (URL Alias) module the links actually look fairly sane.

Wahey! Can you believe it? After nearly two years (one year and eleven months, to be roughly exact) in limbo, I've finally gotten around to updating my website. At the same time I've experimented a bit with Drupal, a content management system that so far appears to be not only powerful but incredibly flexible and modular.

The old site is still available at boah.boah.us.