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Good and bad - 05/04/2001 - 19:05 GMT - [Link]

Good and bad
Get a load of this. It's Ireland.com's breaking news section, but not as you know it - chopped and cropped so it'll fit on one of these or these. I'm rather proud of this, although in reality anyone with half an ounce of programming experience could do it in less time and with less code. I'll set up an AvantGo channel proper, just as soon as I ask Cliph. Gee, maybe the Irish Times will hire/sue me!

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The irony of all this is that I can't check it myself because, as of yesterday, my computer is seriously banjaxed. As far as I can work out, the supposed defragger went and completely fragged either the bootloader or the (Mandrake) Linux (for Windows - yes I'm lame) system image file (c:lnx4winlinuxsys.img) so now I can't boot past, er, "stage 1". Might be solved be reinstalling Lnx4Win and hoping it overwrites the previous junk but otherwise it's recovery disc time. Words cannot describe how much I hate Microsoft today.


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Aha - 05/04/2001 - 19:27 GMT - [Link]

Aha
Silly me - I knew it was there somewhere. The AvantGo link for my ireland.com page, that is.


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This is LeSinge.org v3.0. It's on its sixth* server since I registered the domain name in November of 2000 and it has gone through several drastic facelifts in that time, usually prompted by some cataclysmic event like someone deleting a load of files they shouldn't, or a server being shut down. This is the maddest layout yet; I'm trying to fit the entire weblog (apart from diary archives and the gallery) into a single loading page using all sorts of PHP-generated DHTML jiggery-pokery. The idea is to make it more inviting to look around since there's no loading between "pages". It's still a work in progress (more a proof of concept than anything), so be patient!

I'm Dave Whyte, an Irish CS graduate, German speaker, linguist and incredibly talented web developer. I'm originally from Fermoy but I now live in Newbridge with my wife Beth and our son. I'm currently working for these fine folks and enjoying it greatly.

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My nom de guerre comes from an old Eddie Izzard comedy sketch.

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