Alan Johnston

May 7th, 2007

Not really a lot to say on this one - it’s all been said all ready.

All I will say, is that the death of free journalism would be the death of democracy. Journalists and the mass media might be complete tossers sometimes, but they do a job, and don’t get much credit for it when they do uncover the dark underbelly of the world.

Not all are ambulance chaseing scumbags.

One things for sure - Alan Johnston deserves to have his voice heard, and those that have taken him are foolish and ignorant. What do they think it will achieve?

Anyway, here’s more info from auntie:

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Classic ASP (which IS still alive) - and parametised queries

March 23rd, 2007

Ok, this is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for a while, but have just never got around to. Getting the motivation to actually write takes an effort after spending every day looking at a screen - hence the complete lack of updates since I got the new site design up and running. Anyway, now that I have a couple of days off, I thought it time I get back to writing some blog entries.

I’ve long held the belief that if something works, don’t mess with it. If something does everything you need it to, and does it well, I reckon it’s a good idea to stick with it.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is my justification for a sentiment that will probably rile a lot of people: I like classic ASP. It works well for a lot of things. continued…

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Work in progress

September 18th, 2006

Ok, well, the updates have been a bit thin on the ground (better things to do than sit around in the summer at a computer) - and to be honest, the site’s looking a bit ropey. So, time for a rethink and a redesign.

Over the coming weeks I’ll be completely rebuilding the site based around Wordpress 2.0. At the moment, the site uses Wordpress 1.5 - but only as a backend. All the frontend code is handbuilt from the ground up. It was built for a specific purpose - for my quick jaunt around the globe - and as such was a bit of a rushed job - it served it’s purpose well, but has some problems. continued…

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