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Biosoc Panto

Phil — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:57:02 +0000

Well, they’re finally here, all the videos you saw on the big screen during the biosoc panto 2006. Click the link below to view them all, right in your browser. You will need an up to date version of the flash player to view the videos.

Obviously the quality here leaves a lot to be desired, but it should tide you over until the DVD is produced, some time in the new year.

MedTV Cribs

The PSU Team

After Intermission

The Sexual Evolution of a Med Student

1st Med – The Library

2nd Med – The Date

3rd Med – The Pub

4th Med – The Club

An Interview with 3rd World

Studying Hard

Playing Hard

Hard Bodies

Interview with ‘Mr. Walsh’

Top Ten Music Moments on Scrubs

Phil — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:04:53 +0000

Fantastic article by Luke Adams on stylusmagazine.com giving his top 10 musical moments from Scrubs (season’s 1-4)

Scrubs Rocks!

Phil — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:26:41 +0000

Quite litreally – here’s the proof. First, we have Turk (Donald Fasion) dancing to Bel Biv DeVoe’s Poison.

Then we have the complete performance of Boston’s “More Than a Feeling” by the Sacred Heart Airband

Many thanks to Captain Oats for digging these up

Making WPG2 play nicely with XHTML

Phil — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 23:40:09 +0000

This site uses the excellent WordPress Gallery2 plugin (WPG2 for short) to handle the integration between blog and photo gallery. Mostly it does a great job, but there have been one or two niggles I’ve run into trying to get everythng to run ‘perfectly’

One fairly major hurdle I found was the wp-gallery2.php file dumps all of Gallery2′s header information into the body of the document, rather than the head. This is a problem because it could mean that style information isn’t picked up by the browser, as well as being non-compliant with xhtml 1.0.

Because this site uses a custom wpg2header.php the instructions below assume the same configuration. It should be easy enough to retro-fit these instructions into a fix for the standard behaviour of wp-gallery2.php.

First, open wp-gallery2.php in your favourite editor, then find and comment out the line that says:

echo $g2data['headHtml'];    //Include the gallery header

Next, open your custom wpg2header.php file and add the following code to just inside the head tag

if (isset($g2data['headHtml'])) {
  list($g2_title, $g2_css, $g2_javascript) = GalleryEmbed::parseHead($g2data['headHtml']);
}

This gives you three variables to play around with in your wpg2header.php file. The first, $g2_title, is a string which contains the value for the title of the Gallery page. You can combine this with any wordpress title magic you have working. For example, my title is:

< ?php bloginfo('name'); ?> » < ?php echo $g2_title; ?>

The other two variables, $g2_css and $g2_javascript return arrays containing entire … or lines. Because they’re arrays, you need to loop through the variable somehow – a simple foreach works well

foreach ($g2_javascript as $javascript) {
  echo "$javascript \\r\\n";
}

foreach ($g2_css as $css) {
  echo "$css \\r\\n";
}

Finally, here’s the section of my wpg2header.php


	
	

	<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> » <?php echo $g2_title; ?>

Congratulations! If you’ve made it this far then you’ve knocked down one obstacle to making your WordPress and Gallery2 site standards complaint.

Coming up soon – a simple edit to the wordpress gallery2 theme to fix an XHTML nesting bug.

Ciara’s 20th Birthday Party (Part 1)

Phil — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 20:06:31 +0000

It was Ciara’s 20th birthday yesterday so she had a few people over for a little celebration. There was pennying
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dancing
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and a little falling over…
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The first 50 or so photos (the ones taken by Colin and me) are online, and I’m hoping to get hold of Niamh and Ciara’s pics and will post an update when they’re online. For now, click the picture below to see the pics
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Safe Cross Code

Phil — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 14:22:27 +0000

Anybody remember the safe cross code song? I found these lyrics in an old post on boards.ie

Remember:

Look for a safe place.

Don’t hurry – stop and wait.

Look all around you and listen before you cross the road Remember.

Let all the traffic past you.

Then walking straight accross you,

Keep watching. That’s the safe cross code.

Not ringing any bells? Click here to hear the song in all it’s original glory (1.3 MB, Real media player required – I recommend Real Alternative)

Trip to the Zoo

Phil — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 18:51:55 +0000

Went to Dublin Zoo yesterday, it’s changed quite a bit since I was last there (probably well over 10 years ago). While the absence of polar bears was a little disappointing, the ‘elephants’ more than made up for that
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Although, it was a little like childminding at times…
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I took about 70 photos, but one or two of them turned out quite badly. The viewable ones can be found by clicking on the pic below.
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LUAS Green Line Extension

Phil — Thu, 19 May 2005 08:00:37 +0000

I’m hosting the RPA produced maps and diagrams for the proposed extension to the LUAS green line, from the railway works order recently appiled for by the RPA for Luas Line B1, Sandyford to Cherrywood in South Dublin.

Area 13 Sandyford to Glencairn (Plan) [5.7MB]
Area 13 Sandyford to Glencairn (Property) [2.9MB]
Area 14 Glencairn to Ballyogan Wood (Plan) [3.2MB]
Area 14 Glencairn to Ballyogan Wood(Property) [2.2MB]
Area 15 Ballyogan Wood to Bride’s Glen (Plan) [4.5MB]
Area 15 Ballyogan Wood to Bride’s Glen(Property) [3.3MB]

Legal Stuff:
These are public domain documents and under the legislation upon which a railway works order is applied the full set of plans and all documentation within the submitted works order may be inspected by members of the public whom are also entitled to copies at reasonable cost of production of those copies

Most of this text is adapted from the notice on P11′s forum