One of the first things a PHP coder will bang into is Unix Timestamps and making them usable and readable. I’m currently trying to work with some very simple shell scripts in Unix and now I actually WANT raw timestamps, but noooo, can’t get them. Outrageous.
Author: Sarah King
This is my website.
Like many New Zealanders I was up late last night trying to contact family in London. Because it’s the busy summer season the city is teeming with tourists so a larger number of countries are pulled into the drama. Both my sisters are there right now. One lives there with her husband, the other is visiting with her family. My husband’s sister is there with her family. And they all have other friends who are there at the same time.
When I lived in London bomb scares and disruption were normal. You coped, you walked the miles to get from A-B etc. And when the IRA weren’t doing it the infrastructure would fail and you’d be no better off.
Pt Chevalier School is lucky enough to have a wonderful teacher called Chris Moore. Every second year he puts on a “whole school production” and it’s a mammoth effort.
It’s never easy bringing a new religion into a secular society based upon an opposing religion.
Despite our limited religious activity here the Christian faith underpins society and if push came to shove we’d be picking their churches as the basis of our beliefs.
So Ashraf Choudhary must feel continually under fire as a Muslim politician.
Trademe is our local equivalent of eBay. There are a few pretenders but Trademe has the profile. It was one of the dotcoms started up by school kids, supported by their parents, that actually flew (Maxnet being another).
So I was amused to find that a Jeremy Matthews had purchased a mispelt domain tardme.co.nz and put up a mischievous front page.
I found this quote from Metacentric today
“Many people visit your Web site once and never return. Like a holiday romance, it’s nice while it lasts but a poor return on your Internet investment. RSS news feeds stretch your Web site out over time and help build a long term relationship with the people that use your site.”
and it started me thinking that there are two types of bloggers