Workalone UK Sometimes, when you work alone, you need a little help

Just had a weird dream, probably an old sci-fi book memory resurfacing, but I feel impelled to note it.

Assuming the hubble telescope sees areas of distorted space - where the light from distant objects is smeared across the image, and some of those distortions are circular in nature, could it be that the smearing is heat related (like the wavy image we see if you look through a jet engine's exhaust as it taxis past)?

If so, could the circular ones be the distortion caused by the exhaust heat of a spaceship heading straight for us?

I suppose the thing to do would be to look at the hub

Recent experiences are:

6.5 is nicer than 5.x

5.x is better supported by stable modules

there are some cracking modules (like CCK and Views) that make it a framework not just a CMS

install is quick and easy, but building it up takes time.

I still haven't got my head round the theming.

it feels like it has loads of potential.

www.workalone.co.uk is now drupal powered and the wiki is now a 'book' that can be edited by authenticated users using mediawiki syntax.

the host you install it on determines some of the facility you can enjoy - e.g.

While looking at my relentless and un-diminishing task list this morning and wondering how I could be better organised, I hit upon a new plan.

Most of what I do falls into one of four 'areas of focus'

• Xebit Ltd
• Boldfish
• Future
• Domestic

The first two are obvious business areas and the last anything that isn't income generation but needs doing.

Having struggled for an age to work out how to get syntax highlighting for code blocks and the Pear wiki filter to work in harmony I thought it best to record the configuration here.

I've created an input format that allows for media wiki syntax to get headings, lists and some basic formatting using the following filters (listed in order).

• GeSHi filter
• PEAR Wiki Filter
• Inline images
• freelinking filter
• HTML corrector
• HTML Purifier

(I'm still tinkering with the Purifier to remove empty P elements)

The reason they are in that order is so that any code blocks are picked

color scheme themes and font choices are all personal, but i went with a bitmap font (ProFont 9pt) and the BBEdit theme (because I prefer dark text on a light background)

ProFont can be found here:
http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/

note that 9pt bitmap is not as small as it sounds:
http://img.skitch.com/20080331-fc3chxdp7...

Themes:
http://wiki.macromates.com/Themes/UserSu...
http://www.tmthemes.com/

some useful links for TextMate

http://projects.serenity.de/textmate/tut...

Picked this up on css-d, quoted verbatim:

Matt Tibbits wrote:
I am trying to float an unordered list to the right and when I do the bullets do not display in IE6. They show up in Netscape 7.

Ah yes. Yet another wonderful difference between IE and and Gecko browsers. With enough experimentation, you will find that the markers for lists are affected by margins in one browsers, and padding in other browsers.
For this case, padding:0 on the ul is the culprit. Adding padding-left:1em lets the bullets show for the simple case you describe.

If you’ve installed stuff that now won’t uninstal, claiming instead that unwise.exe cannot find install.log then this will help:

Don’t know what causes it, but you can open a command prompt box, (run cmd) go to the directory where the app you want to uninstall resides and see if there’s an unwise.exe file. Also, check to see that the INSTALL.LOG file exists. (If it doesn’t then that means that it has been deleted or something in which case your best bet is to install the app again and try uninstalling it afterwards)

Then all you have to do is type:

unwise INSTALL.LOG

and the app will be uninstalled… (you will then have to type ‘exit’ to close the command prompt box and may have to delete the directory manually.