Cherub and Skull Gravestone

Gravestone with cherub and skull

Another photo from the crypt at St Martin In The Fields - this one's an ornate gravestone from 1670. I love these things, as morbid as they are - cherub at the top and a sinister skull at the bottom. They really don't make them like this anymore.

How to set the alarm clock on your iPhone 4

Ever wondered how to set the alarm clock on your iPhone? I got one at Christmas and spent ages browsing through the settings looking for the alarm setup.

It turns out that the clock's where the configuration settings are. On my iPhone the clock's inside the Utilities folder. 

iPhone Utilities Folder

Henry Croft - The Original Pearly King

An eyecatching memorial in the St Martin In The Fields Crypt is this statue in honour of Henry Croft. If you read the inscription on the base, it says The Original Pearly King.

Skull & Crossbones on a gravestone

Skull and crossbones

This'll be the first photo post from our trip to London last week. Lisa and I found ourselves with a bit of time before our flight home, and we wandered into the crypt at St Martin In The Fields (just beside Trafalgar Square).

Drupal Howto: Use Modr8 and Modr8 Bypass to protect your site from spam

The 5 or 6 regular readers of this blog may remember that a while back our Unreality Shout site was attacked by spammers and pretty heavily vandalised. I asked for suggestions for workflow solutions that would prevent a repeat of this, but without making it harder for established members to post content.

Nginx and WordPress: Redirecting www domain to non-www using server block

Nginx logoThis is a quick tip post to show you how to redirect the www version of a domain to it's non-www equivalent using Niginx.

The reasons for doing this are quite technically dense, so a knowledge of web hosting and SEO might be useful. Basically, having the same site available at both www.yoursite.com and yoursite.com means that there are two identical copies of your site on the web.

Drupal question: Moderating content from new users on a site

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A question for Drupallers who manage community sites where members can post content: Is there a way to hold the first few posts from a new member for moderation until they've earned trust in the community? 

Hanging tree pumpkin

This pumpkin is based on a design I found online - unfortunately it was a Google Image search, so I can't credit the original designer. I loved the intricacy of the branches. They present a real challenge to cut out without snapping parts off.

If I was doing this again, I'd cut the hanging man separately and hang it from the branch with a piece of string. As a matter of fact, having seen some of the amazingly detailed designs online, I'd love to get some practise in carving some more complicated designs.

Goofy Face Pumpkin

Only a fortnight after Halloween, and I'm finally getting around to posting this year's pumpkin photos. I carved this goofy faced one first - I love doing pumpkins with big, chunky teeth and crazy eyes.

Normally we fill the pumpkin with paper after Halloween and set light to it (outdoors, of course) - it's fun to watch the flames billowing out the top, and when the paper blackens, it makes a brilliant backdrop for the eyes.

Setting up a virtual host in Nginx

Nginx logoIf you've been following this tutorial series for Nginx on Media Temple's (ve) server, you'll know that we've completed three steps - installing Nginx, MySQL and PHP-FPM for a fully functioning web server. 

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