Turns out my 5 year old son, Oscar is Spider-Man after all. He reached the top of this 12 metre high climbing wall on his first go.

http://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

I moved from a .im domain to my new .me domain earlier today. I found this search and replace tool really useful in making the change as it meant that I could keep my old WordPress database and once I had FTPed the relevant files I simply had to change reference to andrewharkness.im to andrewharkness.me. Easy peasy.

Here is the pirate birthday cake we made for Oscar’s fifth birthday. Turned out pretty good in the end. The sand is made out of demerara sugar and the sea out of green jelly with a bit of food dye.

The moon peaking out over the Samuel Beckett Bridge this afternoon.

I just moved a client’s website to a new server and for some reason the embedded Twitter feed stopped working. I had put the feed together a few years ago and Twitter seem to have made a few changes to their API since.

Anyway Here Is What I Had Previously

Before the closing body tag:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/TWITTERNAME.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=5"></script>

And where I wanted the widget to go:

<ul id="twitter_update_list"><li>Twitter feed loading</li></ul></li>

And Now I Have

Before the closing body tag:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=TWITTERNAME&include_rts=1&callback=twitterCallback2&count=5">

And where I wanted the widget to go:

<ul id="twitter_update_list"><li>Twitter feed loading</li></ul></li>

Notice Any Difference?

Well there is not a lot of difference really. Just that:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/TWITTERNAME.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=5"></script>

Becomes:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=TWITTERNAME&include_rts=1&callback=twitterCallback2&count=5">

And hey presto we have tweets!

You can see the results at the bottom of www.mentalhealthreform.ie

Danger Mouse “My Dog’s Got no Nose”

I had my first session at White Collar Boxing at the National Stadium today. There was a fantastic atmosphere and as soon as you walk in the door you can feel the perspiration. The noise of training is surprisingly loud as wannabe boxers jump and trainers shout instructions.

We ran few the first few drills and then stepped into the ring for some practice weaving, ducking, jabbing, crossing… interspersed by lots of press ups and finished off more sit-ups than I could manage. The pace was fairly fast and I felt completely knackered, but in a good way.

Next session tomorrow at 7am.

I used the complete text of the Mahon Tribunal to create this tag cloud of words in the Mahon Tribunal.

Created using tagxedo.