speeding is fine

Take the time to smell the flowers


It's quite possible that people traveling faster than light can't see where they're going.
Makes sense.

On the other hand:

A good reason not to drive slowly? - Some people drive so slowly, it's a wonder that they don't get a parking fine on the way to work.


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PHP on Blogger

Hi all...

It occurred to me that since Blogger was a CMS and probably powered by PHP, it would be possible to use PHP code on Blogger. One way to find out. So from here we go to the "Edit Html" tab and write some code.

See ya soon...



$multiply = 12*12;


echo '

';
echo $multiply;
echo '

';


And maybe they're even in their own paragraph. Cool. The only way to test it is to publish it as just navigating to the "Compose" tab tells us nothing of any value.

Fingers crossed. NB: I didn't include the php tags as I figured that Blogger would've already included them. Let's find out. We should have the number 144 included on the page if it works.

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OK OK. Didn't run any PHP code and to make matters worse Blogger strips out the paragraph tags (but it runs them as html tags) ... try again>>>>

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Blahh!

This time with the php tags.

';
echo $multiply;
echo '

';

?>

Well it didn't strip out the php tags, it just didn't process the variable.

';
echo $multiply;
echo '

';

?>
Blogger gets uselesser and uselesser.

Whadda 'bouta simple one...


===========================

Seems to leave in the closing php tag so why not leave it out and see if anything useful happens. Next we'll google it if nothing exciting happens.

How do I use Blogger to process php

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Well that CSS worked, even included the line-height of 45px necessary due to making the h1 40px in height ... otherwise they're all scrunched up, however, the PHP doesn't work, perhaps the Blogger software is saving the pages as html which won't run PHP, worth a think about ... let's go to Google and see what we can find out (notice the capital G that time. That's because this time Google is a noun and last time google was a verb).

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OK nothing of any consequence at first glance. Either I am useless or Blogger is useless, I prefer the latter, not so hard to live with.
I did find something interesting though at http://www.xml.com/pub/r/940. Actually only half of something interesting about using Blogger to create XML websites, hmm, might have to buy that book.
I read the first bit then clicked the link to http://www.hit-or-miss.org/ and found a whole lot of lesbian dating sites. Not much use to me since I'm a male ... and a male one at that.

However...

I am due at a friend's place to do some Sunday arvi gardening. Better go>>>>

Oh by the way.... Up the mighty Hawks. Good one boys. What's Tasmania got to do with it? Easy to see that I am not actually a Hawthorn fan. The Adeliade Crows are our team and always will be even when things are not so good for them, but all the same AFL is THE game no matter what the Pommies (in their deluded mental chaos) might think (I'm sure some of them must think).

So bearing a look of chagrin regarding not getting PHP to run nicely (er, at all), the intrepid designer from Tweed Web Design bids you farewell. Later on we'll try some ... wait for it .... JavaScript, maybe even AJAX. Maybe we ought to just waste this much time playing with Joomla ... probably get better results.

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Wordpress is KING

Wordpress is KING
Wordpress is KING

I've had a busy week at Tweed Web Design researching Hotel Booking software and I think I've come up with the perfect solution. I'll keep that to myself for now, unless you want a website that requires booking software. Contact me if you do.

OK OK, after researching methods of setting up a categories function in Blogger I have found a couple of ways, neither of which are very appealing, but one will probably be deployed at a later date. Just want to explore Blogger itself to see if there's a more intuitive method than the ways I found from Googling the term.

So I have come to the conclusion that for serious "bloggers" Blogger is tantamount to useless. If all you want is an online diary that nobody ever reads then Blogger is for you. Otherwise, Wordpress would be a great choice since Wordpress is King of the blogging software.

There are other blog softwares that we could utilise to blog our blogs but the consensus seems to be that Wordpress is the king of blog software.

Nevertheless, we will continue to explore Blogger and see what we can make it do. There's always something can be done but the problem we are likely to encounter is that it won't be as easy as click and done, it will be stuff around stuff around stuff around and there, I knew we could do it.

So just for fun, when time is available we'll get the Blogger thing happening and Blogger a blog to bloggery.

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Blog exploration begins at Blogger

Hi de ho folks...

We have just commenced a new blog entitled Blog100-1 to explore Blogger.com and find out just what, if anything can be done with this wretched blogging software. We've purposely started with that awful black background ... yes, we'll change that shortly.

The purpose of this is twofold. Me learn - you learn. We share experience. Why bother? Because Google is closely related to Blogger.

That's all I am gonna write today since I keep getting a message "Autosave failed". Told you Blogger was wretched.


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Quiet intelligence

Think allowed

leMusicque

Hi...
Just a quick post to let people know that I still exist. My doctor gave me some tablets that realy WRECK me. I have stopped taking them. Too hard to think. By a day or two I'll be back in action.

OK so I have been having a love affair with j-fusion. Not sure what that is? Check out this clip of Trix playing "Recollection". Love that geetar. AND he's having heaps of fun. The keyboard player really rocks too. In fact they all do.




Cool?

Of course, not for everybody so for Tony Hogan here's Sid Jacobs. I left a link to this guy on your blog but you get 55000 comments a month so it's quite possible that you didn't see it.



OK so I gotta do things, don't ask how...

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PS I hope to be here with some real stuff real soon.
Keep on lovin' McLovin

Chrome is toxic

Chrome is more than a toxic metal

We all know that chrome is a toxic metal utilised by the body in trace amounts but the new Google Chrome browser is quite poisonous.

I turn my computer on in the morning and it stays on till about 9 or 10 pm, sometimes later ... it's on more than 12 hours per day. These last 2 days I have watched the Zone Alarm firewall block the Google Installer about 30 to 40 times. I 'googled' the search "is chrome spyware" and got some very interesting results. Try it yourself.

Try these fellas>>>>

1. AmericanCitizen Says:
   September 3, 2008 at 4:52 am

   Run as far away from a Google binary as you can!!! Google is in the business of intelligence gathering and putting their software on your computer is utter suicide for your privacy and security.

2. Limey Says:
   September 3, 2008 at 12:49 pm

   I tried running the Chrome installer. It only got as far as telling me it wasn’t suitable for my system (Windows 2000), but it had already installed a hidden “updater” program (i.e. spyware) in the Local Settings folder, set to be run every reboot (and stay resident). I discovered it when the firewall trapped it trying to phone home, and removed it with HijackThis.

   This browser is seriously bad news - avoid!

They are from http://harshad.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/google-unveils-chrome-the-browser-spyware-we-were-waiting-for/


Other problems with Chrome

Carpetbomb bug tarnishes Google Chrome

by Marianna Schmudlach - 9/3/08 7:30 AM
In reply to: Google Chrome Browser URL Handler Crash by Marianna Schmudlach

Shiny new vulnerabilities winkled out already
By John Leyden
Published Wednesday 3rd September 2008

Google Chrome isn't officially out yet, but security researchers have already picked the browser apart to discover a security vulnerability.

The WebKit engine used inside Chrome leaves it vulnerable to the infamous Safari carpetbombing flaw, security researcher Aviv Raff warns. The flaw stems from a combination of a vulnerability in Apple Safari WebKit and a Java security bug, security blogger Ryan Naraine reports.

More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/google_chrome_vuln/

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Google Chrome Browser Automatic File Download

by Marianna Schmudlach - 9/3/08 11:25 AM
In reply to: VULNERABILITIES \ FIXES - September 3, 2008 by Marianna Schmudlach

Summary
Google's new Web browser (Chrome) allows files (e.g., executables) to be automatically downloaded to the user's computer without any user prompt.

Credit:
The information has been provided by nerex.
The original article can be found at: http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/6355

http://www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/5YP060UPFU.html

"DISCLAIMER":

However I am no authority on these things BUT I do earn a fair swag of my living on the net so using a browser occupies a fair portion of my day.

I will say that I get the feeling that sales of Hijack This will go through the roof and that I will keep Chrome for a while. If it proves useful, I'll keep it just for testing websites I build. It is highly unlikely that Chrome will ever become my default browser ... I didn't actually feel very impressed when using it and it lacks things I look for in my browser. Long live Firefox. Slow to load it may be but I only load it once or twice a day ... what's a few seconds wait for the world's best browser (otherwise). Looks like the fox's diet is about to get a lot richer than it has been

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Search Engine Optomist

Hi All ...
(I guess All is a proper noun in this case; let me know if it's improper to consider it proper).

My recent conversation with Tony Hogan has prompted me to re-organise the content of this blog into a informational architecture more suited to today's internet. As we, "the Blogger" will do our best to teach you, "the Bloggee", to do tasks that are intended to affect blogs (and websites) of your own, on today's internet, seeing that we the Blogger have years of training and experience that can be of benefit to "all" good bloggees.

Today:
The last limit of search engine optomisation.

I recently had a client who was convinced that if his web designer (moi) set up his website according to the principles of SEO (search engine optomisation) that he wouldn't have to market his product because all the good, lovin' search engines would find his site and deliver him as top doggie in search results. Perhaps. If, all the other sites selling the same product were designed without SEO in mind.

Because his product was a sex aid called G-Lover, "googling" the term G-Lover returned 17,500,00 results ALL concerned with persons called Glover, Danny Glover being among them, and other items such as a Nintendo game titled Glover, and somewhere in there ... my client.

OK! Well, at least his opposition wasn't getting the better part of google search. Nevertheless, refining the search criteria to G-Lover and sex (search within results at bottom of google results page), we get a whole lot of sex + AIDS results. Still no client website.

Try again; this time, because G-Lover is a sex aid we try "G-Lover sex aid" as the search term and although we have a couple of results regarding persons named Glover and AIDS we now get my client in 3rd place (out of 77600 results)

Actually, considering the amount of "competition" (Glovers of all descriptions), I think that it's not such a bad result.

What's my point?
SEO does work BUT if you intend to market a product on the web, regardless of whether the price is $0.00 or a small, exorbitant fortune, make sure that your likely search terms don't collide with other, non related search terms.

Oh! This exercise also showed that my client's opposition didn't have their sites search engine optomised and as a result, they didn't show up in the results at all.

Hmm, getting outa control. Must remember to weed this blog occasionally.

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Ananda Samvada

Hi all....

It's been nearly a week since I have had the chance to update this blog, due to working so very, very hard on a project which a godbrother and I create jointly. He is editor and I am publisher. It works well. See it at:

Ananda Samvada

I also mentioned to Urshula Beere that I would put Severn Suzuki's address to the United Nations' World Environmental Council on here tonight so here:



This girl just breaks my little heart with the sweetness of her little heart.

BTW

On other topics, I have already got together tomorrow's post regarding how to go about the first steps of getting online whether via a website or a blog. I had a discussion with Tony Hogan today on the way home regarding these upcoming posts and he's given me some excellent direction regarding blogging and websites in general. Thanks Tony. For those who don't know Tony, he's not only an accomplished guitarist but also teaches nerdy folks how to do internetty stuff. He's very good with Flash.

I am hoping that being on dialup for a day or two won't present a big problem. Wish us luck. We're actually on dialup as I speak, the last preview took ages to load young Severn. Fingers crossed....

So, hopefully, CU2morrow

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