Alan Jeeves Blog

This was my best holiday of my life, me and avi went to Cape Town – her home town and travelled along the Garden Route to Plettenberg bay.

Below is our experiences at each location.

Cape Town – Village Lodge

Our first stop was at Village Lodge in Cape Town central. Nice area but due to it raining all the time while we stayed here we didnt venture out much. Finding the place was a bit of a challenge – just look out for the restaurant’s name: Soho.

The hosts there were very nice, including Rickardo which spent a couple of drinks with and … Continue Reading

I was looking for a better editor for php files than notepad++, and came across Rapid PHP (blumentals.net), which is very good.

One nice thing is, it is very configurable and settings are easily backed up and / or transferred to another install (just copy a folder, do options -> export settings).

But this caused a problem as the laptop i was copying the settings from had multiple screens but the other install didnt and the app opened on the ‘other’ monitor and i couldnt move it back to the only screen i had.

Solution was to edit the registry, … Continue Reading

We’re planning to enter the annual Cape Town Big Walk  this year which is on Sunday 8th November 2009 – i had to email the orgainser to confirm this date as the website hasn’t been updated with any details of this years event. They replied ultra quick howvere – so thanks!

Post a comment if you are planning on participating!

Another road trip took us to New Forest – Lymington. Along with the ride was Ruth and Avril – my girlfriend!

Lymington was lovely, we went to the Otter and Owl Sanctuary.

And stayed at a nice Bed & breakfast named Fernbrake, the host made us feel comfortable and happy and would recommend it highly, it was located on a side track so was very quiet. See: http://www.fernbrake.co.uk/

We ate sunday lunch at the Hobler Inn pub, all our dinners was yummy and i ate two deserts! See: http://www.alcatraz.co.uk/indexSite.html

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There is a known problem with using Backup-to-Disk Folders (on a USB external hard disk) in Synamtec Backup Exec where the drive / folder goes offline just before a backup is started which means the bacup pauses until the folder is back online – you can make it come online by right clicking it and selecting Online. But I think i have found the solution to the problem!

Randomly i kept the application open and the backup worked without going offline and i have done this for over a week now and the nightly backups has worked ever since!

 I think leaving the app … Continue Reading

Hi,

I think i started to get this error when i updated to the latest version of  adium (on mac osx)

Every time i connect to msn i get a error message popup saying unknown error 205, unkown user.

I’ve just found out how to stop this, the problem is that i somehow got the user: messenger@microsoft.com on my buddy list. Just using Adium this user never shows up so i installed Microsoft Messenger for the Mac, connected and went to preferences then privacy and removed that user from the lists (either the allow or block list) – to do this right/Ctrl click … Continue Reading

Had a lovely weekend with my girlfriend in Bath.

Fudge Factory sell nice fudge

3 page photo album – nav buttons top left

Went to Las Vegas and New York with my brother for two weeks ending with Sacha’s stag weekend in New York.

Had lots of fun, and bumped into a couple of people from Mitcham! Can’t believe it, certainly made the evening.

Stayed at ~Circus Circus in Las Vegas – nic e and large room (with two double beds!) but the place was unsurprisingly full of families which was annoying.

Vegas is sureal – see photos here

New York was cool, similar to london but much bigger – in many ways! See photos here.

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If you’re not a Flash programmer this may not entertain you – so move onto something funny, if you are please read on…

If you have a two movie clips – one laid over the other, flash is ‘clever’ and knows the user can’t see the one underneath and therefore deactivates mouse handlers – onPress, onRollover etc when the mouse moves over the MC overlaying it.

Another test (s3 inside s2) shows all handlers of a MC within another MC will never be called if the containing MC has any handlers set.

Check out this movie showing what i mean

[flash randombollocks.swf w=380 … Continue Reading

Went to the British Museum the other day with mum to see China’s Terracotta Army.

The exhibition was pretty crowed and small was wasn’t that enjoyable but was good. But the other stuff in the museum made up for it, was there for over 5 hours and was very knackered by the time i got home!

See: British Museum – China’s Terracotta Army