• Blog upgraded to WordPress 1.5
• Photos upgraded to PhotoStack 2.1b7. Sorry, but the URL’s aren’t backwards compatible because I didn’t have the motivation. Maybe later.

• Calendar upgraded to PHP iCalendar 2.0b

If stuff is broken, leave a comment!

It’s called LiveSearch. To see it in action, just start typing some search terms into the search box on the right. Cool, eh?

With any luck, this’ll be removed tomorrow so you can have normal text again.

For some reasons why I chose to do this, see www. is deprecated.. This follows in the footsteps of sites like slashdot.org, PhotoMatt, &c.

Leave a comment if anything is broken. Soon up, a new layout assuming I can learn photoshop.

It is fixed now. My apologies.

Secondly, 404 errors now try to search the site for posts with similar content. Hopefully this will save some time for somebody.

I’m using a modified form of PhotoStack 2.0b13 that uses cruft free URL’s. Feel free to use my differences or get the whole thing. Note that you will also need to make a .htaccess in your directory to setup mod_rewrite. The .htaccess that I used is also available

The change that fixed it (in unified diff format):

--- textile2-new.php.old        Tue Jun  8 23:36:12 2004
+++ textile2-new.php    Sun Jul 11 15:19:04 2004
@@ -2805,7 +2805,7 @@
         }
       }
     }
-    return @getimagesize($file);
+    return;
   } // function image_size

   /**

Read on for a more detailed discussion.

Here’s a copy of the old code:

  function image_size($file) {
    $Have_ImageSize = function_exists('getimagesize');
    if ($Have_ImageSize) {
      if (file_exists($file)) {
        return @getimagesize($file);
      } else {
        if ($docroot = ($this->docroot() ? $this->docroot() : $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'])) {
          $fullpath = $docroot . preg_replace('|^/*(.*)$|', '/$1', $file);
          if (file_exists($fullpath)) {
            return @getimagesize($fullpath);
          }
        }
      }
    }
    return @getimagesize($file);
  } // function image_size

Notice how getimagesize is called even if it doesn’t exists? Well that’s poor form, but the @ in front of getimagesize hides all error messages. Convenient.

But the problem came down to this, my host appears to silently fail if getimagesize is called with a remote URL. So all my posts that linked to pictures on remote sites weren’t working.

The new code block fixes this by ensuring that file_exists is called before any getimagesize call.

I know it’s not perfect, but I think it’s a good start.

If it totally doesn’t work for you, leave a comment.

It looks interesting, I’ll see what I think.

Update: I’ve disabled it because it conflicts with the “Search Hilite” plugin.

On TextDrive I get 5 times the harddrive space and bandwidth. Not to mention faster servers and an infinite number of MySQL databases. However, the real gems of TextDrive are WebDAV and Subversion. I’ve already setup WebDAV with iCal to publish my calendar. Subversion should allow me version control so I can keep track of any changes I make to the website.

Urichin should be installed later so I can keep tabs on who visits the site. But until then, a slightly modified version of refer should do the trick nicely.

Todo Items:

• More photo albums
• Photoblog

• New CSS layout (I lack an eye for visual design)

You’ll notice the slighly girly layout change. Hopefully it’ll get improved over the coming weeks but I don’t have tons of time to devote to that.

The new server is hosted by TextDrive which provides fast and inexpensive hosting for people who create content.

More info later.