By Murk | January 2, 2009
The BBC have said that they will be announcing the identity of the 11th doctor at 5:35pm on Saturday.
Please, don’t let it be Catherine Zeta Jones….
Eddie Izzard would be good, but I’d like to see Bill Nighy. I don’t think it’ll be either of them, though. It needs to be someone with a long term commitment to the role.
As I write, the odds (source: betfair) are as follows:
- Matt Smith 8/15
- Patterson Joseph 11/10
- Chiwetel Ejiofor 7/2
- Ben Wishaw 7/1
- Russell Tovey 14/1
- David Morrissey 19/1 (no! too big a leap given the christmas special)
- James Nesbitt 19/1
- Billie Piper 19/1 (no!)
- Colin Salmon 29/1
- Rhys Ifans 29/1
- Sean Pertwee 49/1
- Jennifer Saunders 59/1
- Jack Davenport 69/1
There’s a certain symmetry to Sean Pertwee, and I can see Patterson Joseph in the role…. regardless, it really doesn’t matter what I think, though, whoever is announced will be Doctor Who. When Tennant was announced, I did remember thinking "who’s that, then?" and he turned out okay….
By Murk | January 2, 2009
For my daily photo today, I chose this picture of my car speedometer.
Why?
It is representative of today as I went to the doctor….
This may not be obvious to you, but the rationale is that I’m applying for a Category D on my Driving Licence (in the UK, licences have categories for types of vehicle). Category D is buses. For this you need a medical. I took this picture after I arrived at the doctor for the medical.
By Murk | January 2, 2009
Thanks to a helpful email from Ian Stewart, I now have solved the problem whereby I wanted my child theme, murkymatic, to check for the existence of a variant.css file. The issue was that I was not using the path to the directory, but was instead using the path for the web. I.e. the program needed a path that looked like /home/public_html/wp-content/themes/.... etc, and I gave it http://www.murky.org/wp-content/... etc…
function childtheme_variantcss() {
// Pre-2.6 compatibility
if ( !defined('WP_CONTENT_URL') )
define( 'WP_CONTENT_URL', get_option('siteurl') . '/wp-content');
if ( !defined('WP_CONTENT_DIR') )
define( 'WP_CONTENT_DIR', ABSPATH . 'wp-content' );
// Guess the location
$variantcss_path = WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/themes/murkymatic/variant.css';
$variantcss_url = WP_CONTENT_URL.'/themes/murkymatic/variant.css';
if (file_exists($variantcss_path)) { ?>
<!-- Custom CSS --> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('wpurl'); ?>/wp-content/themes/murkymatic/variant.css" />
<?php } elseif (file_exists($variantcss_url)) { ?> <!-- Custom CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('wpurl'); ?>/wp-content/themes/murkymatic/variant.css" />
<?php } else { ?> <!-- Create the file variant.css in the murkymatic directory to customise things --> <?php }
}
add_action('wp_head', 'childtheme_variantcss');
This is placed in the functions.php file.
By Murk | January 2, 2009
The Big Match this weekend is Wasps vs. Quins at Adams Park and is a Guinness Premiership Game. This game will be on Sky Sports 1 at 3:30pm, kickoff is at 4pm.
Wasps are our team, and to be honest, they’re not doing wonderfully this season. A 31-3 defeat at Sale on boxing day was really putting the boot in.
Wasps are 9th in the table on 16 points, trailed by Northampton (15), Newcastle (12) and Bristol (9). Quins are 6th on 26 points. Leading the table are Bath on 34.
It’s all a pretty depressing performance given that we’re the current champions - though we must remember that this time 12 months ago things were looking rather similar, the difference was that last year there seemed to be a momentum which is just lacking at the moment. Add into this the difficulties with contract renewals which the club seems to be having, and it’s all a bit dark and gloomy.
Anyway, hope springs eternal and I shall be giving a full-throated support to the team. Wasps need a win, and desperately. They are only one game away from being passed by Northampton or Newcastle, and at just six points from Bristol we’re not exactly safe there, either. Ulp!
By Murk | January 1, 2009
Through 2009, I will try and take a picture each day. The picture will be representative of something that happened that day (though I might not actually put it online until a few days later).
Today’s photo was taken as today was essentially a geeky day (the other half wasn’t well, and I had to do something between bringing her cups of tea and lemsip).
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