Archive for August 15th, 2005

Posted on August 15, 2005 - by jono

The finger eater

In my quest to understand the world around me, I have discovered that dogs like to eat fingers. The pooch that lives in our gaff demonstrated this desire for digits last night. To be fair, he was gnawing on the wooden chair I was sat on as Sooz and I had our dinner. I had finished eating and as such decided it would be fun to poke my fingers in the dogs mouth as he was munching on the aforementioned chair. The result:

Here you can see the culprit and heinous blood curdling grotesque injury that I was afflicted with. Dogs and fingers clearly don’t mix, particularly if the owner of the fingers is an idiot.

Had lunch with Scott James Remnant today and it was good to hook up with him. He has been off on his travels all over the place and sounds a busy chap as usual. After lunch I came back to continue tying up some bits of work that I have been involved in. This week I am also giving a two day PHP and MySQL training course.

Thanks to Aq and Aquarion (not a double act, I assure you) for getting back to me about a PHP Blogger API implementation. It seems that Aquarion has written one, and I am going to see if I can use it on my new site. It is a shame there isn’t a PEAR library to do this sort of thing. What does astound me is the sheer number of XML-RPC libraries available for PHP – there are quite a few. The big two seem to be Edd Dumbill’s and Simon Willison’s. I have not looked at either extensively, but both seem pretty feature complete. Simon’s also looks a little easier.