I love my wife. Dearly, more than anything in the world, but sometimes, I just don’t understand the way she works.
For instance, I know that when I’m in a bad mood I’m a complete twat to be around, so rather than inflict my bad attitude on the her and my son, I tend to go off to somewhere quiet and distract myself for a bit until the red mist clears. Usually this will be by going upstairs and watching a movie or tv-show or something. Once I’ve calmed down I then slowly reintroduce myself to society and try to make up for being a grumpy dick as best I can.
To me, this seems like the grown up and mature way to handle the situation and is far better than the alternative which is stomping around, shouting at everyone and generally making my family’s life miserable.
However, for some reason my wife takes this as an attack on her personal pride and rather than letting me chill out and get my shit together, she decides to use this relaxing time to berate me for being lazy, ignoring my son or any other ‘crimes’ she can come up with. This usually just makes me even worse and then the moodiness will last all night and possibly carry over into the next day.
Can anyone explain this to me or should I just accept that female logic is illogical and just become another abuse arsehole husband instead?
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I’m desperate for a new iPhone. Seriously. My 3GS has slowly been dying a death, the moment, the screen is broken, the case is falling apart and the home button doesn’t function. I’m pretty much only able to make calls on it via the bluetooth functionality in my car, it is for all intents and purposes, fucked.
My contract with 02 expired in May this year and I was all set to buy a new iPhone during June/July which has been when Apple has historically released their new phones. However, this year, they have decided to push back their phone release dates to September (according to the Apple Rumourati).
Could this be the iPhone 5?
Of course, I could have bought an iPhone 4, but then I would have been stuck with the old model and an 18 month contract (I’m not when the iPhone 5 was potentially just a few weeks away so I waited… and now the rumour sites are saying we could be waiting as long as the end of October.
It’s driving me crazy. If it wasn’t currently in possession of my gorgeous iPad2, I’m pretty sure I would have given in and bought an iPhone 4 by now.
In summary: Apple, hurry up and release the fucking iPhone 5 already!
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WordPress includes functionality that allows you to set blog posts to auto publish in the future. The problem is that WordPress fakes true auto-publishing by including a file that checks for unpublished posts on page load. If you have a have a relatively low traffic blog this can mean that a post scheduled to be published at 11am may not go live for hours afterwards. If you have a very busy blog it can mean a whole bunch of excess queries while your site is already being hammered by visitors.
If you want scheduled posts to work properly in WordPress you have to create a cronjob that will automatically launch the wp-cron.php file every five minutes or so. That just involves adding the following to your crontab file (naturally replacing my domain with your own):
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /bin/bash -l -c
'/usr/bin/wget -N http://andywarburton.co.uk/wp-cron.php'
(PS, this should all be on one line, but my blog isn’t wide enough to fit the whole thing).
The only problem is WordPress will still load it’s ‘fake’ wp-cron.php include everytime someone visits your site, which is an additional request to the server and just feels a bit dirty when you’ve gone to all the hassle of setting it up to work properly. So to disable fake cron, simply add the following line to your WordPress wp-config.php file:
define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);
This will tell WordPress not to load the wp-cron functionality when a user visits a normal page on your website. Easy!
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So, inspired by my good friend Sarah’s (aka PopLedge) recent post about caring for your curls, I thought I would take a strange diversion from my usual land of geekery and do my very own hair post!
It’s been a long time, but as a teen, I was a bit of a wannabe punk geek and went through a phase of about two years, during which time I dyed my hair a multitude of crazy colours. It started with dying my fringe red, then my whole head (for Comic Relief during a 24 hour Blogathon), then bleached blonde (to get rid of the red), then Green (it’s not easy being green), then finally Black and back to my natural colour. Here’s some pics of the transition:
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Red or Dead!
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Au Natural
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It’s not easy being Green!
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Blondie strikes back
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The Raven Returns
Read on for my top tips for crazy haired freaks!
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I’ve had a fun couple of weeks at work as my lovely boss has put me in charge of a couple of competitions, the first to win an iPad2 and the second to win a months supply of biscuits.
I can’t tell you how good it feels to make that call and tell a stranger they’ve won an awesome bit of tech, or an insane amount of biscuits, especially when it’s not you that’s paying to deliver that happiness.
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I had a moment of realisation tonight… the popular kids TV show “In the Night Garden” is Inception for kids!
I know… it sounds like madness, but hear me out!
The show starts with a toddler falling asleep in their bed.
The child falls asleep and starts dreaming about Iggle Piggle floating in his boat.
Iggle Piggle, pulls down the sails, creates a make-shift blanket, and nods off to sleep.
Where he dreams about the Night Garden!
See! Dreams within Dreams! It’s Inception.
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So… you know me, can’t stand using other peoples themes for my blog so I’m working on a new one just for me. It’s called ‘Terminal’ and it’s named after the application that I’m starting to spend more and more time hiding inside each and every day.
I have a lot of tweaking to do to get it where I want it but I have the basics where I want them for now. Will try and repair the rest as I go.
Once I’ve finished with the theme, I shall be releasing it to the public on the WordPress.org themes directory, so if you like it – stay in touch!
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At the start of this month, my little boy finally turned one year old. I can’t believe it. It’s been a hell of a year and he’s grown so fast. I can’t get over the fact that this time last year he couldn’t sit up, talk or even laugh – now he’s running around, causing mayhem, making demands and generally ruling the roost.
Daddy & Jack
Being a dad is insane. It’s one of the most challenging things I’ve done in my life and constantly causes massive amounts of stress, but yet it’s addictive. I love spending time with my little one, all the stress is nothing compared to those moments of intense happiness that you get when you see the little chap smile, or the flood of warm fuzziness you get when they snuggle in for a cuddle.
I’m loving every second.
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You may have noticed that this site has been down for a couple of days… Sorry about that, got sort of busy and it just couldn’t be helped.
Anyway… we’re back up now and dev.warb.me is no more! I’m now hiding in plain sight under my own name at andywarburton.co.uk but all the old content is still here, I’ve just updated the domain.
I’ve also moved hosting provider from Slicehost to Linode as I was able to get a faster server for less money. To top it off I’ve moved my site from the ubiquitous Apache2 webserver to the ever so nippy nginx webserver with the help of my fellow geek Rob Williams (no… not *that* Rob Williams).
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