I haven’t written a post for quite some time. The blame lies entirely on Civilization IV (Civ4) - specifically the “Complete” pack that I bought the other day. I really can’t stress enough how addictive this game is! Seriously, several times now I have sat down to play for “half an hour or so” only to stop later and realise that half a day has passed. So I guess caution is advised if you’re going to play this game. Anyway, let’s get on with the review proper shall we?
Archive for October, 2007
I’ve been running version 2.3 of Wordpress for a couple weeks now and I’m getting more accustomed to using tags with my posts. One thing that struck me about the default handling of tags is that, while free form, it’s a bit unwieldy for long term use. For example, you have to remember what you named various tags (”did I use web or internet?”). The Simple Tags plugin gets rid of most of the problems associated with tagging and makes it an absolute joy to use - I’ve been using for editing my posts for a few days now and I love it.
If you’ve ever wanted web application programming to be a little more like desktop application programming then have a look at Sun’s experimental Lively Kernel project.
If you do web site testing on a Mac and would like to use older versions of Safari then you now have the option of using Multi-Safari instead of running ten copies of Mac OS X.
If you play (live?) Second Life then you might be interested in Katharine Berry’s AjaxLife, an AJAX client for the game. You can also find the source on Google Code.
Junction is a new PHP 5 object persistence layer.