Shooting Foreigners!

Fri, 02 May 2008, by designermonkey

Well I have the work Nikon D80, and I’m off to Cyprus! Tis gonna be an interesting shoot, learning as I go with a very capable photographer called Jo…

I’m so excited and nervous at the same time, I may just wee myself!

Oh and I have my new iPhone to keep me entertained while I’m there and on the flights etc…

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Monkey

Sat, 12 Apr 2008, by designermonkey

I was just googling around for monkies (as you do) and I fond this. Brilliant!

monkeyBW

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Wordpress on IIS 7: Url Rewriting

, by designermonkey

After having a nightmare trying to install php and MySQL on my Vista x64 machine with IIS 7.0, I finally did it, and it works. I am definitely going to put a post up here explaining how to do it as there are fuck all posts on the internet that have working instructions!

Anyway, back to the point of why I wrote this… URL re-writing. Now IIS doesn’t do this as standard, unlike it’s Apache counterpart, so an isapi filter is required. There are plenty out there, most of which need paying for, and are a bit tricky to get working. I decided to try and use Jon Tackabury’s filter which has been specifically designed for wordpress!

Now, Jon states that the 64-bit filter is still in testing and has only been tested on the following:

  • IIS 5.0, 5.1 and 6.0
  • WordPress 2.0.x and 2.1

But I can assure you that it will work on:

Vista Business 64-bit, Service Pack 1 running:

  • IIS 7.0.6000.16386
  • PHP 5.2.5 Non Thread Safe
  • MySQL 5.1.22-rc-community
  • Wordpress 2.5

It’s brill!

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With a fistful of blow (Part 1 & 2)

Thu, 06 Mar 2008, by designermonkey

When I was a little younger (…OK so I was 10 years younger!), I fancied myself as a bit of a poet. I used to get stoned a lot as well and this is what came out of me… I never finished it though, and I don’t know how to for some reason!

Here’s parts 1 & 2 of my little story. If you comment, be kind… (more…)

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Earthquake!

Wed, 27 Feb 2008, by designermonkey

My GOD! We had an earthquake in England!

I was asleep, and after watching Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles on Virgin, you can imagine how much it shit me up! I wake up to find my house shaking, after dreaming Terminator dreams. I thought someone had dropped a nuke or something. I mean, we don’t expect the whole ground and everything on it to shake in England!

You can imagine what my dreams were like afterwards…

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Stupid People

Thu, 21 Feb 2008, by designermonkey

I just don’t understand some people today. They think that leaving an abusive comment on my website and faking the email address is gonna stop me from finding out who it is! I mean, come on! (more…)

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Exercise, Finally!

Fri, 15 Feb 2008, by designermonkey

As some of you may know, I celebrate new year on my birthday (as technically, it is my new year!), and in 2007 I decided to start doing some exercise to finally get fit, well, it didn’t happen. It drastically didn’t happen. (more…)

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