Rumblings from the keyboard of Pete Eveleigh,
a web designer and developer based in Gloucester, UK

Restoring GD into OSX 10.5 Server’s Apache/PHP set up

Posted: October 12th, 2009 | Author: Foamcow | Filed under: General | | No Comments »

This keeps happening!
I don’t know if it’s because at some point I’ve hacked the default set up of Apache on our Xserve or something else but every time Apple does a PHP/Apache update it stuffs up the asset management tool we run.
The problem is that the default Apache set up doesn’t have the GD library [...]

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Moussaka Recipe

Posted: July 29th, 2009 | Author: Foamcow | Filed under: Food | Tags: | No Comments »

I don’t know if this is authentic, but it’s yummy. Someone asked for it on Twitter so I though I’d post it here too!

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Top way to make your own lists!

Posted: June 16th, 2009 | Author: Foamcow | Filed under: Drunken Ranting, General | | 4 Comments »

Web Lists? I fucking hate them.

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Publishing children’s names in the press

Posted: June 10th, 2009 | Author: Foamcow | Filed under: General, Social Comment | Tags: | 1 Comment »

My local paper ran a picture of my daughter last night complete with her full name and the name of her school. I think this is absolutely irresponsible.
I’m normally pretty liberal when it comes to things like this as I feel there is a lot of scaremongering that goes on. Even so, I think it’s [...]

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iPhone 3G owners – you have nothing to complain about!

Posted: June 9th, 2009 | Author: Foamcow | Filed under: Drunken Ranting, General, Social Comment | | 10 Comments »

Apple realeased the “new” iPhone 3GS last night. It’s faster, much faster apparently, has a few more nice features and looks like it will keep Apple and the iPhone at the cutting edge of mobile telecommunications.

But what’s this? If you have an iPhone 3G (still available alongside the newer version incidentally) you have to PAY to upgrade! WTF! Pay? The cheek!

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