Thingy Ma Jig

Announcing: Global Redirect Module

08 October 2006
programming Drupal announcement

Well its nearly 1am - but I've just submitted by very first Drupal module to the community

http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect

Basically, if you have an alias for a node then it will redirect you to the alias if you try to access the node directly… The best example is the site it was designed for. At Sportbusiness.com you could access a news story by:

RRD::Simple - an API for Round Robin Files

03 October 2006
websites software review linux

After trying on and off for days to find an easy way to use RRD to keep an eye on server load (found in places like the top and uptime commands or in the /proc/loadavg file), I found this. Its fantastic!

20 free windows applications

02 October 2006
cool free software

Over 20 free windows applications under 2mb, courteously of revision3 forum member, lordfoul. Definately a list to look into. Applications range from miscellaneous software, command utilities, system performance tools, and more.

Webmin OSX Tiger Theme

07 September 2006
software mac linux free design

If anyone has ever used webmin then its quite likely they'll have got bored with the default theme very quickly.

Incy, Wincy Spider...

07 September 2006
photos K800i

... Climbs the leafy bush just to get photographed by me!

NT-Hell

04 September 2006
firefox geek How to

We use NTL at home and recently they have been quite inconsistent when it comes to speed. Fair enough, when they upgraded us for free from 2Mb to 4Mb, I can accept a little slow down while the techies get on and sort the network out - but since friday our internet connection has stopped me from getting to one or two of the sites I works with, including this one! The one I was most concerned about was www.sportbusiness.com which was recently moved onto a new server over the weekend. Just when I needed (not wanted, NEEDED) to get to it - NTL stop me getting there.

New Sportbusiness website goes live!

03 September 2006
YADS websites Drupal announcement

A project I've been working on for months, recently accelerated with the assistance of two newly employed colleagues (who are picking up this Drupal thing VERY quickly!) have meant that www.sportbusiness.com has finally moved from an old Solaris and Oracle setup with no server management or backup facility to a nice shiny new one with a company called Rackspace.

Welcome to Thingy Ma Jig

30 August 2006
announcement websites

Welcome to TMJ. This site contains the work and thoughts of its owner, Nicholas Thompson. This is version 3 of Thingy Ma Jig. It started out being a table-based hand written site with very basic features. I then started to write version 2 with more features which I learned since starting version 1. Since then I have been introduced to Drupal which is, in my opinion, the best content management system available (or at least for free).

This is a drupal powered site which currently contains a few Dark Basic Pro programs and games I've written (I hope to upload MANY more), a blog which I have just started and some RSS feeds from some sites (down the right).

Lydden Hill Race Circuit BRDA 2006

28 August 2006
photos Days Out

For those who dont know, Lydden Hill is a circuit located near Canterbury in the south-east of England (UK). They host many events, but the one I'm interested in is called Lydden Hill BRCC 2006 meeting. Lydden was the first circuit to ever host a Rally Cross meeting - its where it was born

Primitive Maze

13 August 2006

About the game…

This is a game that started out as a personal challenge - "How hard is it to make a random maze?!"