Well, there goes that idea. I was going to start work on something like a mini phpMyAdmin for SQLite, but it doesn’t support quite a few things that a project like this would require. I don’t know if it’s possible to pull the information from the database engine itself, but things like table lists and so forth aren’t part of the function list like in the MySQL functions available through PHP. What a pity – some of those functions are really quite powerful, though generally only useful for administration tools.

A busker playing the trumpet, offers to let a passer-by his drum. The man, accepts, beating the drum to his own tune, a melody that while out of synch with the trumpet player, seems to fit. The soulful tunes of the trumpet echo throughout the mall, and the slap of hand on drum bounces from the walls. I wander past, the drummer dances, the trumpet player continues his tune, and people watch as they pass.

Yahoo! I’m officially bored out of my skull. I’ve read pretty much all the interesting parts (and the rest) of the PHP manual that I’ve got on my laptop, I’ve played a bunch of games of Pinball, Minesweeper and Solitaire (I know I’ll only get frustrated with FreeCell) and I’ve done little coding projects on everything I can think of, other than just throwing data in and out of SQLite. I know I could probably start on the solitaire game I’ve been telling myself I would code up for a while, but you know what? I really can’t be bothered right now 🙂

This was originally page on this site, but I’ve since decided to just make it a post. Here goes:

This is a class for PHP5 that allows you to load up a FOAF (friend of a friend) file from livejournal.com and display information from that file.

Simple usage:

require( "xml-foaf-class.php" );
$foaf = new Foaf;
$foaf->do_processing( "filename" );

echo $foaf-&gt;nick;</pre>

Download the source here: xml-foaf-1.0.zip

Well at least I did something useful with my first of a week of overnight shifts, and that was to do some programming. Clairey’s been talking about trying to setup a page to process the Livejournal FOAF (friend of a friend) XML feed, but not getting anywhere with it. I’ve done XML stuff before, and I thought I would help her out, and as usual, with the times that I decide to help someone out with coding something, it turned into a mini-project.

Ok, so I’m working the night shift this week, 10pm - 6am Tuesday through Saturday. I’ve been wondering what it’d be like to work a week straight of overnights, and I was muttering about it on Saturday night because I’m sick of being a service coach. Monday morning comes around, and I get a call from my supervisor at work - would I like to do a week of overnights? Sure, that’d be fine, says me.

I went to the theatre the other night, to see a play based on Terry Pratchett’s novel Interesting Times. I found out about the play through my good friend Denise, as her housemate was playing the part of Twoflower. It was performed in a small theatre called the Brisbane Arts Theatre, on Petrie terrace. A small theatre that has been open on-and-off for thirty years or so, going by what my father remembers, there was enough seating for perhaps one hundred people, and for the final show, there was about 2/3 of the seats filled.

You Passed 8th Grade Math

Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct!

Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

But I’m a sucker, and I’m smart!

Your birth on the 17th day of the month suggests that you are very lucky financially, because this date indicates a solid business sense.

Although you are probably very honest and ethical, this birthday enables you to be shrewd and successful in the world of business and commercial enterprise.

I don’t know what to say other than read this story on k5. It’s pretty cool, about someone doing a really cool course in uni, and having some fun along the way.

Boy I love Kuro5hin at times - it makes the.funny = 1;

(Update 30/4/16 - “this story” used to link to http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/10/25/6750/9089 but k5’s gone and the Internet Archive was blocked from accessing it. Sad.)