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Ozwald Boateng on himself

Posted on by bobdvb

Last night we watched a programme about the British men’s fashion designer Ozwald Boateng: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00gmj5m/Ozwald_Boateng_Why_Style_Matters/

As a person I’m not keen on Boateng (based on his presentation in this programme he is too arrogant and self-important) and even in fashion I don’t think the cut of his design works for me. However, I can recognise his sense of style and see how it is quite dramatic in comparison to what came before. I think he has had a real positive impact on Saville Row and as a consequence the men’s clothing industry as a whole. Not the impact he thinks he has had, it was by no means a revolution, however he has been a nice kick to bring tailored suits back and to take us away from the Armani casual fit which isn’t very flattering.

 

DekiWiki apache2 authentication against MySQL

Posted on by bobdvb

So, I have a dekiwiki I use for some purpose or another, I wanted it to be used via https to ensure security (just general paranoia). That was fine to implement, however it needed authentication otherwise whats the point! So, I sat down and tried to figure out how to authenticate Apache2 against a MySQL database. There are lots of tools to do this, but luckily for me none of them work with Dekiwiki because the site doesn't store it's password in any normal way.

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Mallard or Mullard?

Posted on by bobdvb

Looking at the news that NASA may support the UK plans to launch a Moon orbiter I couldn't help but chuckle at a comment made by Alan Smith of the Mullard Space Sciences Laboratory:

  "We've got to get our ducks in order, but I think the plan ticks all the right boxes and it's extremely likely that we will have the first British mission to the moon launched in 2012,"

 Should someone from Mullard use the phrase "Ducks in a row"? Mullard? Mallard? Oh dear.