A 3-1 win over Stoke today pushes Reading to 102pts in the Championship with 2 games and them needing 4 points to get to the magical all time points record of 106 which would beat Sunderlands 105.
Coppel’s target is not to loose until the end of the season, so hopefully another 2 wins or at least a win and a draw and it’ll be home and dry.
Almost put a bet on a while back but glad I didn’t as I don’t think I’d take the pressure at the moment!
Well things are now progressing quite well. I’ve migrated the site over to BlogCFC 4 (just as Ray announces full development on v5, typical!) and I’ve finally sorted a design. It’s not original, but then most sites aren’t, it’s based on the K2 template for WordPress with some tweaks.
The site will also have a bit of a content update with me posting the Ajax/CF port of the php star rating system I found.
As ever, watch this space.
I’m now eventually getting around to upgrading BlogCFC to version 4. I’ve got the data transfer, which, using the data transfer tool in Navicat was suprisingly painless. Even got it to transfer and recreate the full DB pushing from my local machine up to the live server.
Got it running it “pure” form at the moment on my beta domain and have already included Steven’s tag cloud pod (cheers!).
Next on the list is to re-skin it, might actually take the time and do in proper xhtml/css this time, though, might not! Also might look at a redesign. One thing I was tempted to do is try and create some themes for the blog basing them on some ideas from the OSWD. Also want to get fckeditor in there as well this time, maybe even some emoticons!
Edit: Why is trying to design a new style so damn hard!
Evo magazine tested different fuels in a GTI a few months back, and I’ve listed their results below (brand, max power, max torque):
Shell 95 205bhp 234lb ft BP 95 204bhp 242lb ft Shell Optimax 209bhp 242lb ft Tesco 99 212bhp 242lb ft BP Ultimate 212bhp 252lb ft Sunoco Race Fuel (352.5p/litre!) 218bhp 248lb ft
Going to see a bit more from me on the AJAX front as I’ve just started playing with it properly. Got a couple of sites where I have need for some AJAX UI elements, the 2 main ones being a star based rating system and a Google suggest style tag lookup for an admin area (more on these later).
In my hunt for examples I found a basic example over at ajaxfreaks.com which if you’re just starting out is quite good.
On the CF front you have a few examples out and about but not many (again more later), one of the best I’ve found is Rob Gonda’s ajaxCFC project.
Just in case you feel like being jolly and finding out what a 100KT nuke would do to your home, go check out the High-Yield Detonation Effects Simulator. Yet another usage of Google Maps.
Everyone’s been blogging, chatting, tagging and such like on the fact Apple are releasing Bootcamp. An app to let you run Windows on your Mac.
Now, everyone knows the blue screen of death, we’ve all seen. Here’s the first of no doubt many you’ll see on a Mac and then a twist on the new Apple / Intel advert.
Taken from BBC News the announcement that America Online to rebrand as AOL, I suppose Time Warner have loads of money, why not do something daft!
I’m sure major corp’s have their reasons, like Intel recently, but I’m still not sure on major re-brands when they’re household names. I guess it does generate publicity and refresh the image, but still, is it worth it? I’m sure marketing folk (eek I said folk when I’m not American!) will argue otherwise.
Still won’t make AOL a company I’d recommend, sorry!
Want cheaper petrol? I’m not convinced it’ll happen, but, no harm at all in signing up and good luck to them. More people sign up the more likely it’ll happen.
Missed out on April Fool’s, not sure if you were had or not? Check out the guide over at Wikipedia. Personal favourite I think once again is BMW’s fine effort of “go slow cameras”.
Ian Winter
