Last night I went to my former place of employment to see a stunning performance of Shostakovich 7 by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Mariss Jansons. While there I met one of my former colleagues who told me about an amusing incident she had witnessed a few weeks before, when the Vienna Phil were in […]

Sounds riveting doesn’t it?
I did this a while ago on my laptop, and it was a major headache. When I came to do it again on my desktop (laptop is in the laptop hospital having an AC socket replacement) it was no less of one. The problem is that most of the web-available tutorials are […]

I should really learn to read things properly. Two pages on in my PHP book was the section on session variables. One of which is the basis for this new, improved, go-faster version of my hit counter. Rather than rely on a number in a flat file, this method actually works by detecting the presence […]

Here, for what it’s worth, is my attempt at a very simple hit counter for a PHP-based web site. It’s similar to the day when I first brought a horn home from school and played it, much to the delight of my family - “Yes, very nice dear. Why don’t you take it outside?” In […]