Mike Little’s Journalized

Update:

Michel has posted a bug fix in the b2 forums. You only need it if you d/loaded the code within the first couple of hours of it being posted. Like I did

Strangeness abounds!

Firstly if you search on Google for earthquake in England my story is in fourth and fifth place!

Secondly, they are links to the comment and trackback popup pages with no content! Aaagh!

Luckily, I’ve hacked in a quick workaround which redirects to the main page with the story opened. You can find the details in the b2 forum.

Questions:
1) wtf is my story about the earthquake doing turning up ahead of say, the BBCs story? (It’s a rhetorical question I know all about Blog Power)

2) Why is it that a technically ‘more correct’ link which is not intended to be used (the javascript onclick event is meant to be triggered) causes me problems? (That’s rhetorical too. I know that the real href link is there so that non-javascript browsers can still get to it).

I guess that my workaround is probably the ‘right’ thing to do. A dynamic site such as this should be able to say “Hmmm. This is an inappropriate entry point for an external referer, I’ll redirect to something more appropriate.” Unfortunately, my solution is not quite there yet.

Woohoo! b2 v0.6 is out! The is a non-pre-release version. See the announcement at Cafelog. It’s a small update from the recent 0.6pre5.

It’s actually out tomorrow! But I’ve already got it. As Michel is in mainland Europe and ahead of me he’s released it on the 30th, which is 5 minutes off for me!

We’ve had a quiet, pleasant day today. We all had a lie in, and didn’t do too much all morning. Jamie and I played a little with our tiny RC cars (yes, I had to go and get one for Jamie yesterday).

The dog got a bath today, he needed it. He and the cat both got their regular dose of flea spray; they really don’t like that.

In the afternoon we went for a walk in the park with the dog . We collected a few ‘conkers’ and pine cones. No throwing of sticks at trees though.

Graham, Jackie, and Thom came round briefly this evening. They were on their way to pick up Bekki from a party. Thom’s being having trouble logging into his browser, but it seems to be specific to their machine. He says he can log in from other peoples browsers. Strange. They don’t have Windows XP, which I believe does have some kind of problem with B2.