There is still the other redback living next to my toaster. She is much smaller, and maybe not old enough to go out into the world yet.

For Christmas Eve dinner I could John and myself dinner and drank expensive spirits as I might have done with my mum in Sydney. However, by the time I took dinner over to John he was asleep so I cam back and ate by myself and listened to Antony. As one does when you're all alone on Christmas Eve.

Then I lugged my swag down to the creek and slept under the best stars in my (extremely flaky) memory.

I'm going to go make some more mud bricks while it's cool. And then have mushrooms and coffee. And then play the Xbox for the first time. And then go to my friend's mansion for Christmas cavorting.

Apparently, the whole house will need about 3000 bricks to make. About 30 tonnes of dirt. It's a pretty tiny house, so it seems like an awful lot of dirt.

Perhaps the house will take the whole year to build and not just three months. But that is OK. I don't have much else to do next year.

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Everyone needs to do their bit

So I did those sums and then bought some nut trees in Guatemala. I have a suspicion it will be one of those things where western hippy organisations come in and bulldoze people's houses to plant offset trees. If it is then I am sorry Guatemala.

I also resolved this morning to stop joking about my carbon emissions. It's not actually any funnier than lots of other shit I really don't think is funny.

$builder->add('amount', 'money', array(
  'label' => 'Default Price', 
  'invalid_message' => 'Price must be a number'
));

I couldn't find that documented anywhere, but it works.

function site_uc_product_add_to_cart( $variables ) {
  $sku = $variables['form']['node']['#value']->model;
  $stocklevel = uc_stock_level($sku);
  if (is_numeric($stocklevel)) {
    // Stock tracking is active
    if ($stocklevel <= 0) {
      return '<div class="add-to-cart out-of-stock"><button disabled>' . t('Sold') . '</button></div>';
    }
    else {
      return theme_uc_product_add_to_cart($variables);
    }
  }
  else {
    // Stock tracking is not being used for this product, just show the add to cart button as normal
    return theme_uc_product_add_to_cart($variables);
  }
}

Fortunately my friend is quite savvy when it comes to wood and other practical similars. The day turned out well well and was well fun. The cupboard went in after a good full day of drilling and screwing and shoving at bows in bits of wood to get them straight or rectangles. It weighs a lot. Possibly much of that is screws. We went through quite a few screw heads. But we finished the construction bit and it looks pretty sweet. It stands up straight, even according to the level. And the shelves are perpendicular to gravity, which is pleasing and a bit unexpected.

Today I ache a little from shoving at twisty bits of the wood. I should go to the gym or something one day.

But I started to get experimental. I started to get hippy. I thought I could do it without tinned chickpeas. I thought I could buy them dried and in bulk and cook them myself to use less packaging.

So I did. I soaked them overnight. Then I cooked them slowly in a pressure cooker for about 5 hours. Then I made hommous in the blender just as I had been. Simple, but usually quite yummy.

The hommous was horrible. Tasted like dust. Soggy dust. And just mushy. I thought maybe sitting it in the fridge for a day or too would make it better. It made it worse. I gave the rest to the chickens.

Now I am no longer happy when I think of hommous. I feel nervous and unhappy. I hope this hommous malaise doesn't stay long.

So if your network domain is footboot.net then blogs will be at site1.footboot.net etc.

If your network domain is wp.footboot.net then blogs will be at site1.wp.footboot.net

Fortunately it isn't hard to rename blog domains after they are setup. So you can rename your site1.wp.footboot.net to site1.footboot.net. Everything seems to work all happy, until you try to login. WordPress is willing to show you a blog at any domain I think, but cookies are more tricky. The cookie domain for every blog is determined from the network domain. So if your network domain is wp.footboot.net you cannot do any cookie stuff on site1.footboot.net. However, it seems if you set the COOKIE_DOMAIN define in your wp-config.php to the top level domain you can keep the network domain as a subdomain. So far that is working, and I haven't found any other consequences.

I was importing from old blogs and I wanted to rename the blog domain **after** the import so that WordPress would get the media from the old one. When you rename the blog domain all that media will break, but you can rename them with a plugin.

So it's all running sweet now. Much better than the old software (but still surprisingly crap). ]]> http://fatvegan.com/2011/12/02/enabling-wordpress-multisite/feed/ 0 http://fatvegan.com/2011/12/01/hoisted/ http://fatvegan.com/2011/12/01/hoisted/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:14:05 +0000 Ryan http://fatvegan.com/?p=5077 So the other day (quite a while ago) I was just minding my own business cutting grass and killing insects and marsupials with the mower. Then out of no where comes this hills hoist and sucker punches me right in the side if the head. Floored me to the fresh cut grass. I got a not cool head cut which I'm hoping will turn into a cool head scar. In the mean time I walk around slightly woozy and with a bit of a not cool throbbing down the side of my head. I'm not sure what the moral is here.

The other day John found a native mouse and brought it over so the cats wouldn't eat it. It was a whole other kind of cute. Much more puffsome and round. Darker brown. Quiet. I like them. ]]> http://fatvegan.com/2011/11/27/mice/feed/ 4 http://fatvegan.com/2011/11/17/querying-certain-subclasses-witth-symfony2-doctrine2/ http://fatvegan.com/2011/11/17/querying-certain-subclasses-witth-symfony2-doctrine2/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:04:03 +0000 Ryan http://fatvegan.com/?p=5161 We're using Symfony2's class table inheritance and I was trying to work out how to select only some subclasses using Doctrine2. It turned out to be pretty easy.

SELECT e FROM MyCustomBundle:ParentEntity e WHERE e NOT INSTANCE OF MyCustomBundle:ExcludedChildEntity

In the discriminator map in the super class you refer to the full qualified namespace and class name (\My\CustomBundle\Entity\ExcludedChildEntity) but in the DQL it works with Symfony2's shorthand.

$builder = $repository->createQueryBuilder('entity')
                      ->where('entity NOT INSTANCE OF MyCustomBundle:ParentEntity');

It has been a pretty marvelous desert year. Another year of experimenting with not doing much at all besides trying to be around. This one probably worked better than last year. Probably because it takes babies longer to get bored of very available friends. And dogs too, they are very patient and generous with their time.

Now I will have an awful lot of spare time. I won't much be able to get into town to use it up with town activities. So I will make up some home activities in between working a little bit but not very much. My first one is building a small house. Like a tiny house, but a tiny bit bigger than that perhaps. It will have thick heavy cool mud walls. I have been told not to get too attached to technologies when planning a house, but I have got quite attached to the idea of those nice walls. Maybe I will change my mind half-way through when I have tired of lifting and moving mud from spot to spot.

If you reached the bottom of this you should come and visit us here one day. It is good.

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So I wrote a small script that performs a tiny, tiny piece of jQuery functionality but allows you to happily load jQuery at the bottom of the page. In my tests it doesn't seem to have any impact on the time deferred stuff takes to fire, but it reduces time taken to display content by at least 200ms. It's not totally beautiful but it's alright. And it wouldn't be that hard I think to emulate all the traditional jQuery ways of deferring execution, so you wouldn't have to change any existing code.

<script>
var $_={
  _callbacks:new Array,
  ready:function(a){this._callbacks.push(a)},
  runDeferred:function(){jQuery.each(this._callbacks,function(a,b){b.call(document,jQuery)})}
}
var $=function(a){$_.ready(a)};

$(function($) {
    $('#elem').hide();
});
</script>

<body>
Page content
...

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script> jQuery(function() { $_.runDeferred() }); // At this point our temporary $() is gone anyway </script>
</body>

This is a simple alternative. You get a simple mechanism for including deferred behaviour inline. It will execute just as fast as it would with regular jQuery call. And you'll save around 200ms on each page load and frequently more. Or at least your content will show up faster. Even when jQuery is totally cached and there's no network operations at all, on my old system it looks like just running the 233kb of uncompressed Javascript that is jQuery 1.6.4 takes about 180ms. That's a delay for content displaying content that really doesn't seem necessary, since while the content is loading you're rarely using jQuery for anything more than deferred behaviour handling.

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The picture is of when someone (such as a king) says "continue" so that
people who have stopped dancing know they should continue to dance (such as
in The Man in the Iron Mask)

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<div style="height:100px;overflow:hidden;">
    <img id="crop" src="blah.jpg" style="height:200px;" />
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
    var image = $("#crop");
    image.css('marginTop', (-(image.height() - image.parent().height()) / 2) + "px");
});
</script>

In the present case there is evidence that the proper authorities had been alerted to the questionable legality of the logging operation but the operation was continuing. The fact is that shortly after the accused’s arrest the operation was halted. Under such circumstances, I accept that the accused’s action was reasonable and he therefore had a reasonable excuse for doing what he did.

DPP vs Ryan Castle

1. White oppression
2. White guilt
3. White bread

For many the answer may seem obvious. Most people know of the evils of white bread and many are already resisting it's presence in our lives. However, white bread is not the worst of these three things. The far greater problem confronting us today is white guilt. White guilt is the sadness and shame that white people feel about being white. It is debilitating, frustrating and denies white people the chance to live free and happy lives. It needs to end.

While the flood of white bread into our lives must be firmly resisted, we must also remember that there are greater battles to be fought. White guilt is never OK.

This works:

//server/MyLibrary/      /media/Personal cifs    users,rw,user=user%pass,uid=xxx,gid=xxx    0       0

This fails:

//server/MyLibrary      /media/Personal cifs    users,rw,user=user%pass,uid=xxx,gid=xxx    0       0

That's only really going to affect these folks:

• alicecommunitygarden.org.au
• wikileaks.org.au
• thirddegree.org.au
• riffraff.org.au
• ayni.footboot.net
• oma-fiets.com.au
• skymoney.org.au
• riverssos.org.au

You folks will have to use FileZilla or some such that supports SFTP. I've also installed SSH2 support into PHP so that WordPress will let you update it automatically from the admin area using your same login details.