Author: westi

Music to commute by

On By westiIn Music

I have got so used to my short commute to work over the past few years that I had forgotten how important it is to select the right music when your commute is a long drive. Over the past few days I have made a number of trips to visit a customer site and tried to select the right music to keep me going on the long journey each way. From the few CDs that I have listened too over the last few days the following seem to have served me best:


Oxygene by Jean Michel Jarre
A tranquil and relaxing classic electronic album. It has a wonderful relaxing effect after a stressful day.


The Oncoming Storm by Unearth
A modern heavy metal epic – really wakes you up in the morning.


Musicality by Salako
This is a wonderful album on a sunny day. It is melodic, cheerful and always enjoyable.

What is your favourite Music to commute by ?

How not to comment spam!

On By westiIn Asides, WordPress3 Comments

I was hit by a run of attempted comment spam last night by someone obviously using a new tool they downloaded from useless-comment-spammers.com. The first attempted comment was so obviously spam it was untrue:

Author : Use Keyword Here
E-mail : You@Your-email.com
URI    : http://www.Your-Domain.com/Your-Page.htm
Comment:
Personally, I never use more than a single link in the comment I post because doing
so can trigger spam catchers if the user has that plugin activated, whereas a single
link will not.

You would think that they at least had the spare brain cells to read the script they were attempting to spam with before starting there spam run!

Some people just don’t get ebay!

On By westiIn Asides, Rants

It amazes me that some people still don’t quite understand how ebay works. I am currently trying to purchase a CD, Deep Forest by Deep Forest, secondhand. It’s quite old but there seems to be a few available to purchase at a cheaper price than amazon are selling them for so I thought I would try my luck with ebay. The other day a quick search netted 3 copies currently available which I added to my ebay watchlist and was waiting till near the end of the auctions before bidding. I checked this morning to see how they were doing to find that one new user had bid on all three and was currently in the position where they had won one of the auctions which closed last night and were winning the other two even after in one particular case another new user had tried in vain to outbid them driving the price up from ~50p to ~£6 in the space of 5 or so minutes.

Managing mime-types for the inline-uploader

On By westiIn WordPress11 Comments

Some people want to be able to extend the list of mime-types supported by the WordPress inline-uploader. There are a number of different ways in which this could be achieved ranging from adding a option to allow any file type through to a plugin which allows easy configuration of an extra list of mime-types through the administration interface.

Seeing as a hook exists (upload_mimes) to filter the list of supported mime-types it is fairly easy to knock together a simple plugin which adds a set of mime-types.

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