1. Create private key file : openssl genrsa -out server.key 2048
2. Create certificate signing request (to send to e.g. GoDaddy) – openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr 
3. Verify a certificate – openssl verify file.name
4. To convert a .crt (base64 encoded) and .key file into a .pem file – just cat them together – cat something.crt something.key > something.pem

• : Bored? Then go read this article about the Daily Mail’s campaign to ban porn, by @mjrobbins t.co/uYDYuNC6
  (2012/04/30, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• RT @BromsgroveHC: Great news we have planning permission (again) for an astro at the club. We now have 3 years to raise the funds… htt …
  (2012/04/30)
• RT @glynmoody: #LG To Pull Away From Windows Phone’s Loving Embrace, Refocus On #Android – t.co/4aLpcSCn another straw in the wind…
  (2012/04/30)
• RT @TrojanCentaur: The polite, curtesy-based way of making sure your database inputs are sanitised: t.co/YA4BeQJu (cc: @mikko)
  (2012/04/30)
• Nigel discovered his chocolate brownie had ‘extra’ salt. Much to our surprise. (cc @BromsgroveHC )
  (2012/04/28, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Not wanting to sound like a shopping geek – but …. 3 trimmed leaks: Asda – £1. Sainsbury’s – £2
  (2012/04/24, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Oooh, here’s a good distraction / training tool – t.co/dFcQ2iUV
  (2012/04/24)
• The Hunger Games – 5/10 – not sure what the fuss was about.
  (2012/04/23, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• The ‘Bromsgrove’ speakers corner chap would appear to have an audience of one videographer plus one child on bike. t.co/3m8yYdVf
  (2012/04/22)
• Tetris fanfiction. Rule 34 in full effect t.co/imMxJORO (via @codinghorror )
  (2012/04/22, Birmingham, Birmingham)
• Puppet show time. t.co/Wr5VoTcv
  (2012/04/22, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Playing hide and seek, with 3 children. One might be stuck under the bed.
  (2012/04/22, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• RT @w_a_s_t_e: PHP hammer t.co/pLEwhXyz
  (2012/04/20)
• RT @birminghampost: Bid for the House of Lords to move to Birmingham t.co/YMSu3tuO
  (2012/04/20)
• RT @unclebobmartin: New Blog: Why is Estimating so Hard? t.co/hypUdIY1 Please RT.
  (2012/04/20)
• RT @asda: We’re cutting fuel prices by up to 2p a litre – from tomorrow you’ll pay no more than 138.7p a litre for unleaded and 143.7p f …
  (2012/04/20)
• Highlight of the day – dunking digestive biscuits into my (decaf) coffee
  (2012/04/20)
• Wow. Diesel’s getting cheap – only £1.47/litre. #not
  (2012/04/20, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• RT @BromsgroveHC: Fancy trying hockey? Come to our club day at Trinity High School, Redditch this Saturday 12pm-4pm. #RushHockey #hockey …
  (2012/04/19)
• Morning mostly lost due to ‘easy_install-2.4′ not working as expected. Manual install works fine. *sigh*. #pil #python #sucks
  (2012/04/19)
• RT @paulrouget: This is mean. And I am sorry. But I laughed sooo hard! t.co/wo1PoVBn
  (2012/04/18)
• Chocolate plus Crabbies Orange Beer. Thanks @asda #bromsgrove (new real ale / beer selection too)
  (2012/04/18, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Presentation time. Now let’s try and not race through it now David. #coffee + nerves …. #bcs
  (2012/04/17, Birmingham, Birmingham)
• “@madeupstats: 30% of IT staff change their network password more frequently than their underpants.”
  (2012/04/16, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• I like this low caffeine coffee – it means I can drink twice as much before my head explodes, right?
  (2012/04/16)
• RT @svizion: Ruby is the lang that wants to be the prettiest one at the prom, but PHP is the lang that shows up drunk at prom yelling “l …
  (2012/04/15)
• RT @entrepreneurs4f: To all our followers our #sciencepark @ Birminghamspa has changed their user name to @BhamSciPark which makes much …
  (2012/04/15)
• “Under no circumstances should the Client discuss with the Service Provider the rates charged by the company to the client.” #tooLate
  (2012/04/15)
• As PHP is known for dirty coding. What are the ways to make it cleaner and make it suitable for furture developments? t.co/nhEFTNKx
  (2012/04/14)
• RT @glynmoody: #MySQL founder’s latest #MariaDB release takes “enterprise” features open-source – t.co/Xh3cFW83 mysql now a littl …
  (2012/04/14)
• I’m giving a talk on mobile development to the Birmingham branch of BCS this coming Tuesday.
  (2012/04/13)
• Bye bye vim, hello netbeans
  t.co/xc6BSihc #php #editor
  (2012/04/13)
• RT @dinkenet: die(‘hard’); //or start using xdebug
  (2012/04/13)
• I enjoyed watching @BattleshipMovie – lots of explosions and aliens dying. 9/10
  (2012/04/12)
• Time to remove some of the excess chocolate from my body… #running
  (2012/04/11)
• Really liking netbeans for PHP dev (yes, I apparently have really moved off vim for programming after 10 years)…
  (2012/04/11)
• RT @TheMikeBennett: Free #vampire #podcast novel, Underwood and Flinch, now releasing Episode 44. t.co/XYlXqArs
  (2012/04/11)
• RT @dotdeb: APC 3.1.10 released with full PHP 5.4 support. If you’re using PHP 5.4 from Dotdeb, please run “apt-get install –reinstall …
  (2012/04/11)
• RT @verge: BT Infinity broadband doubling download speeds at no extra cost t.co/0LerE4Dn
  (2012/04/11)
• RT @TheMikeBennett: Now entering the last file-processing procedures on U&F 44. It will definitely be online this evening.
  (2012/04/11)
• RT @guardiantech: US government accuses Apple and other publishers of price-fixing over ebooks. More details soon …
  (2012/04/11)
• RT @radar: An SSH replacement, Mosh allows roaming and supports intermittent connectivity t.co/buduJQOG free for GNU/Linux, FreeB …
  (2012/04/11)
• Seeing 2147483647 as a value within a MySQL int column – I think there’s a data problem there…. #NotMyBug #MyProblemToDealWith
  (2012/04/09)
• RT @WereAlive: Chapter 28 “Last Dying Breath” Part 2 now available… We worked right through the holiday #zombies #mm #audiodrama
  (2012/04/09)
• Chocolate egg haul #1 – one of these are mine. Lucky children. t.co/aLcAuOh9
  (2012/04/08, County of Herefordshire, County of Herefordshire)
• Happy Chocolate Sunday everyone. Another commercial holiday is here! #nomnom
  (2012/04/08, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• RT @BBCBreaking: Home Office ‘monitoring situation closely’ after access to its website was blocked, apparently by hackers
  t.co/q …
  (2012/04/07)
• The chocolate chics from @asda have passed “quality control”; now for the children to do an Easter Chic Hunt!
  (2012/04/07, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• RT @ZDNet: New Mac malware epidemic exploits weaknesses in Apple ecosystem t.co/aLogyjso
  (2012/04/07)
• RT @dogmatic69: haha #eclipseide trying to free memory t.co/sxs9xBSc
  (2012/04/05)
• Contractor (programmer) has turned up at work. He has no laptop.
  I suspect this will make IR35 stuff interesting….
  (2012/04/05, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• 1/10 B60 #uksnow
  (2012/04/04)
• Today I taught Rowan “Are we there yet ?”
  (2012/04/03, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• RT @php_apm: APM 1.1.0beta1 has been released today.
  Plenty of new things Check it out!
  t.co/nmAaQY2p #php #monitoring
  (2012/04/02)
• There are now even more stupid ponies in the office.
  (2012/04/02)
• Loving the Google maps 8bit Quest mode 8bit streetview FTW! t.co/UV7Oa3VQ
  (2012/04/01)
• Car cleaning t.co/cFHkFlZ9
  (2012/03/31, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• One reason why diesel cars are superior – t.co/HSmjcfa9 – it’s not as flammable.
  (2012/03/30)
• Something to put your salary in perspective with – t.co/PlGtw8nt
  (2012/03/30)
• “Visualising Code to Fail faster” (t.co/v9HCywsM) has prompted me to try and kick my ‘vim’ habit … On to netbeans, perhaps. #php
  (2012/03/30)
• No queue at the petrol station this morning. But it looks like half the pumps are dry. Roads also seem quiet.
  (2012/03/30, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• /dev/md1 has gone 349 days without being checked, check forced….
  #rebootToFsck
  (2012/03/29)

Yesterday on the mailing list it came up that someone was trying to use XOT with PHP4.

After getting over some initial shock that people still use PHP4 (it was end-of-lifed in August 2008) I wondered how easy it would be to check the status of a code base to find how incompatible with PHP4 it now is.

My initial thought was to find a list of functions which had been added with PHP5 and then just grep the code for them, but it turns out there is a much nicer approach – PHP_CompatInfo

Installation was fairly straight forward – like :

pear channel-discover bartlett.laurent-laville.org
pear install bartlett/PHP_CompatInfo

Annoyingly the documentation seemed well hidden – but once I found it (http://php5.laurent-laville.org/compatinfo/manual/2.3/en/index.html#_documentation) it was pretty easy to use, and the ‘phpci’ command did all I needed -

Examples :

1. List global variables in use :

$ phpci print --reference PHP5 --report global -R .
436 / 436 [+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++>] 100.00%
BASE: /home/david/src/XOT/trunk

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PHP COMPAT INFO GLOBAL SUMMARY
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  GLOBAL                                                  VERSION         COUNT
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                        $_GET             4.1.0               1
  data                                  $_GET             4.1.0               2
  debug                                 $_GET             4.1.0               2
  export                                $_GET             4.1.0               2
  file                                  $_GET             4.1.0               1
  firstname                             $_GET             4.1.0               1
....

2. Find all PHP5 functions in use :

$ phpci print  --report function -R . | grep 5.
436 / 436 [+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++>] 100.00%
  spl_autoload_register                 SPL               5.1.2               1
  simplexml_load_file                   SimpleXML         5.0.0               1
  iconv_set_encoding                    iconv             4.0.5               1
  iconv_strlen                          iconv             5.0.0              10
  iconv_strpos                          iconv             5.0.0              38
  iconv_strrpos                         iconv             5.0.0               3
  iconv_substr                          iconv             5.0.0              33
  dirname                               standard          4.0.0              53
  fclose                                standard          4.0.0              51
  file_put_contents                     standard          5.0.0               6
  fopen                                 standard          4.0.0              55
  fread                                 standard          4.0.0              57
  fwrite                                standard          4.0.0              50
  htmlentities                          standard          5.2.3               1
  md5                                   standard          4.0.0               1
  scandir                               standard          5.0.0               1
  str_split                             standard          5.0.0               3
REQUIRED PHP 5.2.3 (MIN)
Time: 0 seconds, Memory: 28.25Mb

and finally,

3. Class usage :

$ phpci print  --report class -R . | grep 5.
436 / 436 [+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++>] 100.00%
  Exception                             SPL               5.1.0               1
  InvalidArgumentException              SPL               5.1.0               2
REQUIRED PHP 5.1.0 (MIN)

4. All class usage :

i.e. without me grep’ping the results.

$ phpci print  --report class -R .
436 / 436 [+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++>] 100.00%
BASE: /home/david/src/XOT/trunk

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PHP COMPAT INFO CLASS SUMMARY
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  CLASS                                 EXTENSION         VERSION         COUNT
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Exception                             SPL               5.1.0               1
  InvalidArgumentException              SPL               5.1.0               2
  PHP_CompatInfo                                          4.0.0               1
  Snoopy                                                  4.0.0               2
  StdClass                                                4.0.0               2
  Xerte_Authentication_Abstract                           4.0.0               6
  Xerte_Authentication_Factory                            4.0.0               4
  Xerte_Authentication_Guest                              4.0.0               1
  Xerte_Authentication_Ldap                               4.0.0               1
  Xerte_Authentication_Moodle                             4.0.0               1
  Xerte_Authentication_Static                             4.0.0               1
  Xerte_Authetication_Db                                  4.0.0               1
  Zend_Exception                                          4.0.0               2
  Zend_Locale                                             4.0.0               7
  Zend_Locale_Data                                        4.0.0              19
  Zend_Locale_Data_Translation                            4.0.0               6
  Zend_Locale_Exception                                   4.0.0              28
  Zend_Locale_Format                                      4.0.0               3
  Zend_Locale_Math                                        4.0.0              14
  Zend_Locale_Math_Exception                              4.0.0               9
  Zend_Locale_Math_PhpMath                                4.0.0              11
  archive                                                 4.0.0               3
  bzip_file                                               4.0.0               1
  dUnzip2                                                 4.0.0               3
  gzip_file                                               4.0.0               1
  tar_file                                                4.0.0               3
  toolkits_session_handler                                4.0.0               1
  zip_file                                                4.0.0               2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A TOTAL OF 28 CLASS(S) WERE FOUND
REQUIRED PHP 5.1.0 (MIN)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Time: 0 seconds, Memory: 27.50Mb
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Which answers my question(s) and so on.

It turns out my answer lies with /etc/console-tools/config – as this is Debian Squeeze.

See http://serverfault.com/questions/137728/how-do-i-permanently-disable-linuxs-console-screen-saver-system-wide

Next up, I just needed to stop it from dimming the console font – adding this to /etc/rc.local seems to help :

setterm -half-bright off

For the last 10 years, I’ve effectively only used ‘vim‘ for development of any PHP code I work on.

I felt I was best served using something like vim – where the interface was uncluttered, everything was a keypress away and I could literally fill my entire monitor with code. This was great if my day consisted of writing new code.

Unfortunately, this has rarely been the case for the last few years. I’ve increasingly found myself dipping in and out of projects – or needing to navigate through a complex set of dependencies to find methods/definitions/functions – thanks to  the likes of PSR0. Suffice to say, Vim doesn’t really help me do this.

Perhaps, I’ve finally learnt that ‘raw’ typing speed is not the only measure of productivity – navigation through the codebase, viewing inline documentation or having a debugger at my fingertips is also important.

So, last week, while working on one project, I eventually got fed up of juggling between terminals and fighting with tab completion that I re-installed netbeans – so, while I’m sure vim can probably do anything netbeans can – if you have the right plugin installed and super flexible fingers.

So, what have I gained/lost :

• a 10 second slow down – that’s how long it takes to start Netbeans – even with an SSD and a desktop that should be quick enough (perhaps this is justification for a faster desktop?). Lesson learnt – do not close Netbeans.
• indexing of the code – although this takes some time when importing an existing project – it does make it very quick to ‘find uses’ of function/class X
• the ability to easily jump to a function/class definition (right click, find uses …)
• a list of ‘todo’ items – from my code comments … this has led to me removing some old legacy cruft…
• the ‘refactor’ functionality – i.e. rename function old_name() and change all instances of it to new_name()
• code indentation seems to work better under netbeans
• inline ‘warnings’ (i.e. unused variable, previously undefined variable[x], syntax errors etc) – so I don’t have to wait for them to appear in a browser or elsewhere.
• inline documentation etc while typing (i.e. type in in_array( and it reminds me where the needle and haystack are)
• with the right them, a nicer editor Window (mine is based on BrandonDark)

x – Fails with global variables on legacy projects though – in that netbeans doesn’t realise the variable has been sucked in through a earlier ‘require’ call.

I did briefly look at sublime a few weeks ago, but couldn’t see what the fuss was about – it didn’t seem to do very much – apart from have multiple tabs open for the various files I was editing.

mkdir -p ~/.irssi/scripts
cd ~/.irssi/scripts
wget http://scripts.irssi.org/scripts/crapbuster.pl

Then within IRSSI -

/load crapbuster.pl
/set crapbuster_levels JOINS PARTS QUITS NICKS CLIENTCRAP CRAP MODE TOPICS KICKS

And then :

/crapbuster

Will remove all of the above stuff from your current IRC window.

If you put the crapbuster.pl script within ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun then it’ll load up by magic (saving you from doing the one line); after running the /set command, do a ‘/save’ and your irssi config will be updated – so in the future you’ll just need to type in ‘/crapbuster’

You should be able to run it on any Debian based system without making any alterations.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import ConfigParser
import os
import time

# On Debian, /etc/mysql/debian.cnf contains 'root' a like login and password.
config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
config.read("/etc/mysql/debian.cnf")
username = config.get('client', 'user')
password = config.get('client', 'password')
hostname = config.get('client', 'host')

defragmented_tables_cmd="mysql -u %s -p%s -h %s --skip-column-names --batch  -e 'SELECT TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME, Data_free FROM information_schema.TABLES WHERE Data_free > 1000'" % (username, password, hostname)

# This will explode if any databases or tables have spaces in their names.
for dbtable in os.popen(defragmented_tables_cmd).readlines():
    (database,table,space_free) = dbtable.split(None)
    print " Defragmenting database : %s, table: %s, space free: %s " % (database, table, space_free)
    os.popen("mysql --batch -u %s -p%s -h %s -e 'OPTIMIZE TABLE %s' " % (username, password, hostname, database + '.' + table))

Having written this, I don’t think it does any more than “mysqloptimize –all-databases”, althoug you could make the above run selectively (i.e. only on certain databases / table formats / disk free amounts ).

Personally I think a chocolate headed pirate would be quite tasty – although perhaps it’d be a bit more than I could eat in one sitting (or one week),  however, just like I don’t really understand his fear of Mr Choco Pirate, I’m sure there are many things I’m afraid of which he’d find funny.

Oh, the joys of childhood!

• People are still queuing to buy fuel in Bromsgrove at 2100. Pumps aren’t dry but price has def gone up (£1.50/l). #sheep #fuel #panicbuying
  (2012/03/29, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• RT @KalvinWilliams: Fuel Tanker Driver… Up and down the M1. £45K pa. FORCES Fuel Tanker Driver Helmand £17K pa.Which one is strik …

  (2012/03/29)
• RT @scottsigler: Tweets! NOCTURNAL is out in 5 days.
  (2012/03/29)
• RT @BLOODHOUND_SSC: BH Ambassador @ClaireMinikin was told this on her 1st school visit: ‘When I grow up I wanted to be a wrestler, now I …
  (2012/03/29)
• Stupid Apple Mail is causing my emails to get truncated after inline attachments to Outlook clients. See t.co/nqyKE1UI for fix.
  (2012/03/29)
• RT @PierreJoye: heh Java Ranting developers, did you notice that we did not bash you for the yet new remote exploit? #php }:->
  (2012/03/29)
• RT @mrchrisadams: “A vicar claims a potato got stuck up his bottom after he fell on to the vegetable while hanging curtains in the nude” …
  (2012/03/29)
• Oh. What a surprise. There’s a queue at the petrol station. “Don’t panic!” t.co/TGEMmPO7
  (2012/03/29, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Yet another “top” – atop
  https://t.co/AHDtZiqd – looks better than htop; just need to learn the magic keys.
  (2012/03/28)
• Debian have linked the nagios nrpe daemon against tcp wrappers… so it’s now necessary to edit /etc/hosts.allow on Squeeze grr
  (2012/03/28)
• RT @codinghorror: The End of Pagination t.co/N6rnxSRm
  (2012/03/28)
• My minions are now collecting ponies. #MLP t.co/eeBc9HOC
  (2012/03/26)
• Just came across an e-commerce shop which doesn’t use a database – items are hard coded in PHP arrays. #YouMayNotSearch
  (2012/03/26)
• Suicide attempt in the car park off town end of Stourbridge rd (Bromsgrove); some of my hockey team walked past as rescue started #hanging
  (2012/03/24, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Decent, if somewhat loud, music at The Hop Pole (rockit fuel). #iAmOld
  (2012/03/24, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Hockey: Bromsgrove 3xi 4:1 Kidderminster (cc @BromsgroveHC )
  (2012/03/24, Wyre Forest, Worcestershire)
• RT @_RosieT: Fox News, I don’t even know where to begin… t.co/DdRMJlXF
  (2012/03/22)
• “Wake up you silly old fella!”.
  (2012/03/22)
• The air quality around London Euston’s taxi rank is horrible.
  (2012/03/20, Camden, London)
• London. Meh. Still, at least I’m not here on a daily or weekly basis.
  (2012/03/20, Brent, London)
• RT @birminghampost: Midland motorways to be used for 80mph limit trail t.co/MjfAA4zd
  (2012/03/20)
• Blood splatter on a cream carpet doesn’t look too good.
  (2012/03/18, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Hockey: Bromsgrove 3xi 3:0 Droitwich. Great goals Alex and Tom(2). (cc @BromsgroveHC )
  (2012/03/17, Redditch, Worcestershire)
• Went to a church (kids playgroup). We didn’t catch fire, come out in a rash or making any comments about the silly phrases on the posters.
  (2012/03/17, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• In other news, two clever lovely children slept through all night in their own beds and then gave me some good wake up cuddles at 8am.
  (2012/03/17, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• I’m getting tired of all these lobby groups saying how they need tax cuts ahead of the budget. I think most of them will be disappointed!
  (2012/03/17, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Bromsgrove’s freegle seems as popular as its freecycle counterpart this week. Perhaps freecycle is finally dying?
  (2012/03/17, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• RT @madeupstats: Social networking: Every year, 14 million male dogs ‘oust’ other dogs from their positions as ‘mayors’ of lamp-posts an …
  (2012/03/15)
• RT @birminghamlug: Ladies and Gents!! Tomorrow we will be running an Arduino workshop @birminghamlug – please bring your laptops if you …
  (2012/03/14)
• RT @robots_: alright here goes – we are flat broke thanks to dwp and i need to pay the rent. i will do ANY graphic design work for a sma …
  (2012/03/14)
• RT @HAL9000_: Happy Pi Day? I guess humans are too lazy to get up at 1:59:26.536 to celebrate Pi to the millisecond.
  (2012/03/14)
• Time for hockey training. Getting fed up of this cough now.
  (2012/03/13, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Time to fix the office broadband/phones etc.
  (2012/03/12)
• Hello again Liverpool. I’m not staying long.
  (2012/03/12, Liverpool, Liverpool)
• It’s hard not to laugh when someone’s struggled very hard to get their bag into the easyjet bag measuring slot, and it then won’t come out.
  (2012/03/12, el Prat de Llobregat, Barcelona)
• RT @WPBhamUK: Don’t forget it’s WPBhamUK this Wednesday at the Post Office Vaults from 6:30. t.co/vfLo3F4z
  (2012/03/12)
• Orange and carrot juice. Whatever next?
  (2012/03/11, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona)
• The local fire brigade are out in Sitges. t.co/UzL1mWD0
  (2012/03/11, Sitges, Barcelona)
• Thankfully I can sing better than this woman who is perhaps busking on the tube.
  (2012/03/11)
• My fellow passengers seemed to enjoy sharing stories of previous flights dropping 1000s of feet in midair. Thanks….
  (2012/03/09)
• Crabbies ginger beer must have some secret addictive ingredient. I keep wanting some. #alcoholFreeWeek
  (2012/03/09, Liverpool, Liverpool)
• Liverpool — ✈ —> Barcelona.
  (2012/03/09, Liverpool, Liverpool)
• RT @alexolivier: .titanic {
  float: none;
  }
  (2012/03/09)
• RT @MotherJones: Ejaculating outside a woman’s vagina is “an action against an unborn child,” and other laws inspired by GOP madness: ht …
  (2012/03/08)
• RT @nolancaudill: I wish PHP had a good scaling success story. You know, something besides Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr, or Etsy.
  (2012/03/07)
• RT @orangejon: Calling everyone who designs interactions – UXDs, IAs, web designers etc: Follow @uxbrum for news of our first meetup on …
  (2012/03/07)
• “i don’t want to sleep! I just want a nap!” Says @rowangoodwin at 9 am.
  (2012/03/06, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Come on @rowangoodwin it’s time to wake up!
  (2012/03/06, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• RT @b3cft: My team @ the BBC is recruiting for a Senior Eng t.co/jxp29FiL & Junior Eng t.co/neWFAimz Interested? Drop me a …
  (2012/03/06)
• Hockey – Bromsgrove 2xi 5:0 Droitwich. (cc @BromsgroveHC )
  (2012/03/03)
• RT @BenBalter: PHP is Insecure (and Other Enterprise Open-Source F.U.D.) t.co/5DAk2jVQ
  (2012/03/03)
• RT @GoodWifesGuide: A Good Wife will not get jealous of his many lady friends on Facebook, he is a popular man, you should feel proud he …
  (2012/03/03)
• Disposable nappies don’t wash very well.
  (2012/03/01)
• I’m looking after @rowangoodwin this morning so he can’t ruin his mummy’s ofsted inspection or something. He’s just woken up at 10am
  (2012/03/01, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• RT @fabpot: a must read “@padraicb: I’ve published an RFC on improving our output escaping approach t.co/D0VoEuZE”
  (2012/03/01)
• As result of a scientific experiment, I declare Crabbie’s Ginger Beer is better than Frank’s.
  (2012/02/29)
• Dear student(s) – you have had 4-6(?) weeks to submit applications for $job; leaving it till the last 6 hours doesn’t look good. KThxBai.
  (2012/02/29)
• Interviewed some possible apprentices yesterday. Very impressed with them both – motivation, interest & drive present. Thanks @tdmderrin
  (2012/02/29, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• RT @HungoverAIan: Retweet if.̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̨̨̨̨̨̨̨̨̨̨̨̨you thought your screen was cracked
  (2012/02/29)
• Bromsgrove 3rd xi 2-2 wednesbury. #hockey (cc @BromsgroveHC )
  (2012/02/26, Walsall, Walsall)
• “I’m not one to gossip, but ….”
  (2012/02/24, Solihull, Solihull)
• RT @myBrewerytap: Special offer on Stone Brewing beers which are just over their best before dates – t.co/FgsvYpJB
  (2012/02/24)
• throw new ZombiesSpringingFromSidewalkException() #phpuk2012
  (2012/02/24, Islington, London)
• I’ve stocked up on my @BytemarkUK pens…. It was getting critical in the office – we’d almost run out. #phpuk2012
  (2012/02/24, Islington, London)
• RT @rasmus: Coverity report on open source code quality: t.co/0BPLQrd4 #php #linux #postgresql
  (2012/02/23)
• ps_mem.py is my favourite new Linux tool/script/thing. Beginning to wonder how I coped without it. #linux #python #sysadmin
  (2012/02/23, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• RT @OpenRightsGroup: PETITION: Stop the government’s new email and web spying plans! Sign here: t.co/uXh9WH5x #privacy #ccdp
  (2012/02/20)
• Hockey – Bromsgrove 2nd XI 2:3 Solihull blossom hill (?). (cc @bromsgrovehc )
  (2012/02/19, Solihull, Solihull)
• Thankfully no one noticed my running shorts were on back to front. Then again, nor did I….
  (2012/02/18, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• Grr. I have a “My little pony” ear worm now. Damn you @aypok and your plans for world pony domination type stuff.
  (2012/02/17, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)
• RT @1Pr0grammer: How a real programmer codes… That’s what I’m talking about! #LoL t.co/xHJxXReP
  (2012/02/17)
• RT @proofek: PHP 5.4.0 RC8 released! t.co/bsD2HSD9
  (2012/02/17)
• RT @DanLane: @bensmithuk The world’s 2nd most common lie after “I love you too” is: “You have successfully been unsubscribed from our da …
  (2012/02/17)
• RT @ls12styler: Hahaha. RT @funkatron: “I like node.js, but this is spot fucking on t.co/o3Ty2LTn“
  (2012/02/17)
• RT @mattgemmell: UK folk who have experienced the joys of Yodel/HDNL deliveries, you’ll enjoy this: t.co/bBK6hZtl
  (2012/02/17)
• RT @DEVOPS_BORAT: In startup we have first fireable offense is dependency injection.
  (2012/02/17)
• 00100001
  (2012/02/17)
• A geeks solution to not booking enough hours of billable work – change the units of time! ValveTime … https://t.co/z03vYvn7
  (2012/02/16)
• RT @SuperDalgas: So… you want to be a developer? t.co/hMVUHEv3
  (2012/02/15)
• RT @myBrewerytap: Looking for a gift – try our myBrewerytap mixed case 3 only £22 for 12 bottles – t.co/zeBhp29j
  (2012/02/15)
• I get back to the office (from a meeting) and the minions are watching videos of my little pony… #wtf ?
  (2012/02/14)
• RT @brucel: ‘Religion is being “sidelined, marginalised and downgraded in the public sphere”‘ Good. It’s a private matter. And Warsi is …
  (2012/02/14)

Anyway, as I’m the boss, I left work at midday on Friday, drove up to Liverpool and flew to Barcelona with EasyJet. Thankfully I’m quite happy flying – but a minor bump triggered a load of men near me to exchange flying horror stories (“Once, over America, we hit some sort of air pocket and dropped 1000 feet!”). Anyway, I arrived in Barcelona at about 20:00 local time (I think flight time was about an hour and a half – apparently we had a 70mph tailwind, so were a bit early) and then fought through the cattle^h^h^hpassengers to get through security etc etc… train, tube, walk -> arrive at Anna’s flat. Fall asleep.

On Saturday we went shopping – so it was a boring day in that respect. But in the evening we went to my favourite Japanese restaurant to eat sushi stuff (nom-nom-nom) – but as I failed to take my camera/phone with me, there’s no photo(s).

On Sunday – we’d went to Sitges and walked into some sort of old-car rally – which was nice to see. Unfortunately this made the town quite busy, so we had to wait for ages for lunch (well, 3pm lunch).

Then we went back home, I did some DIY and the weekend was pretty much over.

Monday involved flying back (uneventful) and then a long drive home. Liverpool seemed very dull and dreary compared to Spain.