Friday, 27th May, 2005

Work in Progress

OK, so I know I should really be sorting out all the crappy little bugs that exist in this weblog — things like the stuff people were talking about the other day, but, well...

...I decided to do something totally different

I decided to use the little tag-thingy that I wrote the other day, to try and give an easier way to navigate round all the sodding archives. As the title implies, this is still very much mid-development (I haven't linked the tags to a search-the-archives script yet, and I'm thinking of cutting out some of the more irrelevant words (like "these" and such)), but it's a start.

Normally, I guess, people use this kind of thing in association with actual tags — tags that they've added to their writing as they go along. But I'm lazy and I don't think I could easily categorise all the stuff I've written. So I thought it better to just let the amount of times I mention something do the work for me

Siobhan's Archives since January 2005 in Tagged Form

Pretty, no?

Just one question: Do I really say "thing" more than anything else?

In Other News

I fixed my toilet

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to take a piss...

Duck and Jam

There is the potential this evening, for me to repeat my most all-time recipie disasters — the Infamous Duck And Jam scenario. A long story which I don't have time to explain right now, as I'm currently half-way through cooking tea for Kath.

I was going to roast a chicken, but whilst in Sainsburys, I got tempted by the Be Good To Yourself ideology and plumped for buying two poussins instead.

And with them, I'm concocting a little sauce of my own creation which consists (mainly) of red wine and raspberries.

But if I leave it too long on the hob, it'll turn into jam — which is exactly what happened the time I tried this with plums...

I think I can make them better though — I was just searching through them for "cigarette" and it occured to me that sometiems I talk about cigarettes, and sometimes I talk about fags...

What would be really cool is if as well as Erin finding pages I talk about $things, she also scraped http://www.wiktionary.org and found all the synonyms of $things — and said something like:

"Erin found $x days where Siobhan said $thing ...

...but she also talked about $synonyms"

And that would be the coolest thing I've ever done. Having said that, even though I've just worked out how to do it in my head, I'm a bit drunk so I'd probably screw up the code. So I'll do it tomorrow.

Promise

Can I cook?

(via flickr.com/people/si08han)

Oh, I think I *can*

For the benefit of Katie =====

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You should have put mine on!

That I presume, is the real reason you chose the name "Becky"

I did write the synonyms thing BTW — but I've commented it out of the code 'cos the Wiktionary-lookups were slowing things down.

if(isset($search)) {

    $url = "http://www.wiktionary.org/wiki/".
            urlencode($search) ;

    $wiktionary = file_get_contents($url) ;

    $pattern = "/<h4>Synonyms</h4>([^[]*)</ul>/s" ;
    preg_match($pattern, $wiktionary, $related_terms) ;

    $pattern = "/title="([^"]*)"/" ;
    preg_match_all($pattern, $related_terms¹, $synonyms) ;

    }

I'll think of another way to do it...