Michael S. Clark

Thanks to Songbird Karaoke who were on at the Commercial Inn in Arbroath. This is me singing “Two Princes” by the Spin Doctors.

I’ve been playing about with a multi-threaded download manager for RapidShare in C# for a while now and I was looking around for better version control than a Windows Briefcase directory. Since this is a personal project, I didn’t want to use our SVN code repository at Computa, so I had a look at Google [...]

I visited my brother Bryan last week. He’s in the RAF, and posted at Cosford, just outside Wolverhampton. What a drive that was – 6 and half hours! We went to chocaholic’s paradise, Cadbury World when we were there. Definitely an experience; especially the factory shop. 48 Creme Eggs for £7! Not for the faint-hearted, [...]

I recently came upon a situation where a client’s website was hosted by their ISP. They wanted it to be updated, so as always, I looked at using WordPress. Unfortunately, the hosting package they had chosen supported PHP, but database support was beyond their price range. That set me wondering if WordPress actually required MySQL [...]

Under usual circumstances, hosting WordPress on IIS7 would not normally allow permalinks to be used. There are some commercial solutions, including the ISAPI_Rewrite module (which I couldn’t get to work). Another less elegant solution was to create a replacement 404 error page that would perform the redirection. This worked, but when the redirection occurred, any [...]

As I type this Mozilla, the company behind the groovy Firefox browser, has just created a new world software download record of over 5 million downloads in less than 24 hours. You can get your 7MB download here and track the download progress here. I got a certificate too! (You can get yours here.) [Via: [...]

Today’s the day! Click here to watch for progress. Update: Those of you that want to get Firefox 3.0 right now can use this FTP link, everyone else that wants to help try to set a world record will have to wait until 10am PDT and hit up the official site.

I’ve added PicLens support to all of my galleries. The required RSS feed is dynamically generated using PHP as are the thumbnails so you would only have to provide a gallery of images. I’ve zipped up the code here.

I’ve been waiting a while for The Courier (my local paper) to provide an RSS feed for their news stories. Anyway, I decided to do one myself. I’ve zipped up the code here and I’ve hosted it on my employer’s server here. Give me a shout if you find an errors or improvements.

There it was. A quiet, thoughtful moment, right in the midst of our rat-a-tat assault. There’s not much room for unnecessary thought during a drive-by shooting — aim and pull the trigger, aim and pull the trigger — but this one provided an odd moment of stillness and clarity. As time slowed to a crawl [...]