John Ó’Ríordáns Blog

Installed a new Banner and icon today. The banner you can see at the top of each page and the icon should be to the right of the website address and perhaps in your taskbar as well (depending on your browser and OS).

I have a copy of the icon in the bottom right of each page as well if you want a closer look. It’s similar to the banner in that it is white fading to blue. It has a “T” and “S” for TheSraid (obviously). Hopefully people like it.

I created both with The Gimp. You can download it for Linux and Windows. I would recommend it.

Oh and it’s free!

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Was messing with the Blix theme because I wanted to change the header. It took a little tinkering but I managed it. If you want to do it follow the instructions below.

1. Create an image with the dimensions 690×115.
2. Save the image as header_bg.jpg.
3. Move the image to the folder wp-content/themes/blix/images/spring_flavour
   (You may have to create it).
4. In the file header.php change

   
<!-- header ................................. -->
<div id="header">
<h1><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">< ?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
</div> <!-- /header -->

   to
   
<!-- header ................................. -->
<div id="header">
<-- <h1><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">< ?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1> -->
</div> <!-- /header -->


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Typical just as I complain about the archive function a previous post link appears at the bottom of the page.

What are the odds?

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Getting a bit worried about the archive function on this blog now. This theme doesn’t seem to be archiving the entries at all. The main page is getting very big. I know when you click on an article you get a calender and archive links on the right but I don’t want a huge front page either. Suppose I’ll wait and see. Maybe when it gets to a certain size it’ll start moving things off the front page. I hope it does as I like this theme and the gallery has been manually edited to fit in with it…..changing that again would be a lot of work.

Still though if the front page gets too ig I’ll have to try a new theme.

I guess we’ll see.

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Still trying to organise getting my old webite URL (thesraid.com) from one & one. It’s a real pain having to use this getmyip.com address. It’s a pity because thesraid.com was easily googled as I have had it for a while. Looking back on the logs the most popular page was a page I had with TV theme tunes. I’ll have to throw something together again but I’m going to wait for the URL from one & one before I start putting a huge amount of effort into the site. Will be handy though because as my hosting company is so cheap if a few people visiting the site clicked on my Google Ads this blog would pay for itself. Have an idea for a money generating site that I am setting up at the moment.

Watch this space.

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I installed Webmin for managing my server. Very easy to install and allows you to configure Bind, Apache, SSL tunneling, Shells, Disk Quotas etc. Very useful and I would highly recommend anybody with a Server to install it. Really simplifies things.

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Paul O Connell can assemble the entire contents of an IKEA store without instructions or an alan key.

When Paul O Connell was a child, he made his mother finish his vegetables.

Every mathematical inequality officially ends with “< Paul O Connell”.

If you wake up in the morning, it’s because Paul O Connell spared your life.

Paul O Connell won the Tour de France on a unicycle to prove to Lance Armstrong it wasn’t a big deal. He thinks yellow wristbands are gay.

What color is Paul O Connell’s blood? Trick question. Paul O Connell does not bleed.

Paul O Connell once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.

When Paul stares into the sun, the sun flinches.

If it tastes like chicken, looks like chicken, and feels like chicken, but Paul O Connell says its beef. Then it’s beef.

James Bond has a license to kill. Paul O Connell don’t need any licenses.

Paul O Connell’ calender goes straight from March 31st to April 2nd, no one fools Paul O Connell.

1.6 billion Chinese are angry with Paul O Connell. Sounds like a fair fight.

Paul O Connell played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won.

Paul O Connell once won a game of Connect 4 in 3 moves.

You can lead a horse to water. Paul O Connell can make him drink.

Paul O Connell once ate an entire bottle of sleeping pills. They made him blink.

When you open a can of whoop-ass, Paul O Connell jumps out.

Simon Says should be renamed to Paul O Connell Says because if Paul O’Connell says something then you better do it.

Killing Paul O Connell doesn’t make him dead. It just makes him angry.

Paul O Connell does the Sunday New York Times Crossword Puzzle in ink.

When Google can’t find something, it asks Paul O Connell for help.

There is the right way, the wrong way, and the Paul O Connell way. It’s basically the right way but faster and more deaths.

When Paul O Connell watches a pot, it boils immediately.

Paul O Connell once killed a group of Samurai Warriors with only a ball point pen. This lead to the phrase “The pen is mightier than the sword.”

Paul O Connell has been to Mars. Thats why theres no life on Mars.

When the boogie man goes to sleep, he checks his closet for Paul O’Connell.

Superman wears Paul O Connell pyjames

People with amnesia still remember Paul O Connell

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