Just started looking into Microformats and as such have added an hcard, some rel=”tag” and rel=”bookmark” links into the blog.

I’m using both Operator and Tails to see what’s going on.

Nicely pointless, yet very festive, icons added to December posts. Simple tweak to the output using day() and month() ensures the magic is limited. Cheers to Nick at n.design for the free icons.

This will be the last code update I think before Christmas, might tweak the entry page tomorrow hangover depending!

Adobe’s new product icon’s have been making quite a few waves in the blogsphere and to be honest I can see why.

Initial reaction has to be that it’s based on the Periodic table, perhaps the designer is a science buff? Letters in boxes may be web2.0, but, it’s product identification and branding, I can’t help think that a little more thought should have gone into it. Then again, I’m no graphics designer, but, I’m not sure I’d have signed it off!

Well, new design and new version of BlogCFC (Cheers Ray!) is all in place.

It’s not finished by a long shot, need to do some caching on the last.fm feed and also figure out where the hell to put my flickr photos. The entry pages still need some work; comments I’m going to put inline I think along with trackbacks (if I turn it on). Thinking some nice script.aculo.us stuff, just because really.

For now, I’m quite happy with it.

Firefox 2.0.0.1 has been released fixing a number of security bugs but, more handily the prototype bug with object.extend is now fixed.

The original bugzilla report has the repeatable test case (see comment 4) to test.

I think this is cool, even if no-one else does! Got an email today from an old colleague wishing me Merry Christmas, nothing out the ordinary there, but, when I looked at the details in gmail the email address I saw was “first.lastname@gmail.com” with a little note “(Yes, this is you)” by the side of it.

When I clicked on the find out more link I learnt that gmail ignores dots (.) in usernames. So, when all those people have asked “all one word?” on me giving out my email I can now say no, first.last or firstlast.

Mmm, geek.

If you’re running and old version of BlogCFC and you are looking to upgrade one of the issues, well, nice to have things you’ll have to do is create aliases for all the old entries and categories.

I’ve done a quick, very dirty, CF page that’ll do this for you. This was run on 5.5.003, but, think the structure has been like it since 4.x, though, may be wrong. Anyway, might be useful.

<more />

    <cfset dsn = "blogdsn">

    <cfquery datasource="#dsn#" name="e">
    select * from tblblogentries
    </cfquery>

    <cfloop query="e">
       <cfquery datasource="#dsn#">
       update tblblogentries set alias = '#lCase(reReplace(reReplace(title,"[^A-Za-z0-9 ]","","ALL"),"( +)","-","ALL"))#' where id = '#id#'
       </cfquery>
    </cfloop>

    <cfquery datasource="#dsn#" name="c">
    select * from tblblogcategories
    </cfquery>

    <cfloop query="c">
       <cfquery datasource="#dsn#">
       update tblblogcategories set categoryalias = '#lCase(reReplace(reReplace(categoryname,"[^A-Za-z0-9 ]","","ALL"),"( +)","-","ALL"))#' where categoryid = '#categoryid#'
       </cfquery>
    </cfloop>

Having said I’d almost decided on a new design for site which really was blatant lie as I had about 4 designs on the go, I think, I might actually have decided this time.

The site might get a bit funky as not only am I going to have a splash page style homepage the blog is going to be upgraded and the database moved, oh, and it’ll also be changing server. All in all if it comes back I’ll be happy!

Naturally when this’ll actually happen I don’t know, hopefully this weekend, but hey… I’ll settle for this year!

Mostly crap costumes so far on the trick or treat front.

Had 3 sets of people, dished out 7 kit kats and the best outfit so far has been a little kid about 3 I reckon in a pumpkin suit.