Twitter updates: mikejw has a headache.
Thanks to social networking I've received news today that some plans to create a digital archive of some of the material so far recorded at John Hannon's No recording studio have been successfully realised. I haven't managed to delve too deep into it yet but I was really pleased to discover a Moat track that I haven't heard for a long time. The file name is '04 Track 04.mp3' in the zip file but if I remember right the song is called Pubic Cloud.
I can't get the words 'sweet new ride' out of my head. It sounds crude and tacky so how about 'awesome contraption'? Either way they describe the new bike I picked up over the weekend. This picture is blurry but it sums up well both changes in bike design and stylistic conventions in BMX bike riding over the last seven or eight years - if you look closely enough:
Some of the differences are down to meandering trends and I guess how they've effected me rather than being totally innovative changes, not that I have had any say over the components used in the new bike and also not that I chose it completely at random either. I'm not sure if this is exactly right but it feels as though it's less than half the weight of the old one. FYI it's a Fit Flow Street.
It has been a few weeks now since Brighton BMX Co (also known unofficially as the BBC) has been open for business. The website is up but has yet to have recieved a PageRank from Google. Hopefully I can influence things a little bit. I'll be ordering my new bike pretty soon.
To this day a lot of people in Liverpool don't buy the Sun newspaper because of the insensitive way that it reported on supposed events surrounding the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989. I have to say that I'm quite surprised that the boycott hasn't yet snowballed into a national campaign. Not to undermine the original wrongdoing that brought about the protest but an important point here, that I feel is getting lost, is that it is indeed possible for 'groupthink' (which seems to empower many a keen soccer fan) to actually work well against those who usually aim to harness it for their own means. Of course it seems like a good cause in the first instance to not buy it.
Pre-release tarball now available. Setup instructions coming soon. See code.
Apparently sales of 'Sports Utility Vehicles' are slowing down. This is great news. Amongst the discussion online I found a link to this other article about how dangerous SUVs manage to be on their own. You suck SUVs.
I've felt uncomfortable with Symfony from the start but needless to say I'm having to use it. Realising that I could set up an existing application that's using Symfony on my dev machine without editing too many system wide config files was a welcome relief.
Step 1 - Install Symfony into your PHP library path
# cd /usr/share/php # wget http://www.symfony-project.org/get/symfony-stable.tgz # gunzip symfony-stable.tgz ; tar -xvf symfony-stable.tar # ln -s symfony-X/lib symfony # mkdir data # ln -s ../symfony-X/data data/symfony # rm syfony-stable.tar
Step 2 - Within your Symfony app, edit the main 'settings.yml' file, create a symlink to 'sf' and ensure the cache directory is writable
$ cd /var/www/localhost/htdocs/sf_app $ echo "all:" >> config/settings.yml $ echo " .settings" >> config/settings.yml $ echo " relative_url_root: /sf_app/web" >> config/settings.yml $ ln -s /usr/share/php/data/symfony/web/sf . $ chmod -R 777 cache
And you're done.
