Social network for fantasy fans
| September 16, 2011 | Posted by The Futtock under Other Stuff |
Dicingdangers.com is a fantasy social network for fans of fantasy, sci-fi, horror, steampunk and speculative fiction in general.
The site is new (2011) but is already proving to be an interesting place to visit every day as there is always something new.
If you are a fantasy fan of fantasy art, fantasy books, fantasy fiction then …
Wood Burning Mass Heating Stoves
| August 18, 2011 | Posted by The Futtock under Survival |
Recently I have been reading up on Rocket Mass Heaters, a very nice and super-efficient wood burning heater. The problem with most wood burning stoves is that a lot of the fuel and heat goes straight up the chimney. All that smoke and heat is just wasted.
According to various sources the Rocket Mass Heater …
Surviving Disaster
| August 18, 2011 | Posted by The Futtock under Survival |
There can only be a disaster where people have not made preparations. In other words, a disaster in making is a lack of preparation.
I am 95% sure that everything is going to work out just fine. I think the future is going to have its ups and downs but in general mankind will make …
PHP Add Days to Date
| May 21, 2011 | Posted by The Futtock under Web Development |
Using the PHP functions date() and strtotime() we can easily take a date and add days to the date. We can also add weeks months and years.
// Set the current date:
$datetoday = date(“Y-m-d”);
// Add a day to the date:
$newdate = strtotime(date(“Y-m-d”, strtotime($$datetoday)) . ” +1 day”);
// Add a week to the date:
$newdate = strtotime(date(“Y-m-d”, …
HTML Entities
| May 19, 2011 | Posted by The Futtock under Web Development |
This is a list of HTML Entities.
Name
Character
Unicode code point (decimal)
Standard
DTD
Old ISO subset
Description
quot
”
U+0022 (34)
HTML 2.0
HTMLspecial
ISOnum
quotation mark (= APL quote)
amp
&
U+0026 (38)
HTML 2.0
HTMLspecial
ISOnum
ampersand
apos
‘
U+0027 (39)
XHTML 1.0
HTMLspecial
ISOnum
apostrophe (= apostrophe-quote); see below
lt
<
U+003C (60)
HTML 2.0
HTMLspecial
ISOnum
less-than sign
gt
>
U+003E (62)
HTML 2.0
HTMLspecial
ISOnum
greater-than sign
nbsp
U+00A0 (160)
HTML 3.2
HTMLlat1
ISOnum
no-break space (= non-breaking space)
iexcl
¡
U+00A1 (161)
HTML 3.2
HTMLlat1
ISOnum
inverted exclamation mark
cent
¢
U+00A2 (162)
HTML 3.2
HTMLlat1
ISOnum
cent sign
pound
£
U+00A3 (163)
HTML 3.2
HTMLlat1
ISOnum
pound sign
curren
¤
U+00A4 (164)
HTML 3.2
HTMLlat1
ISOnum
currency sign
yen
¥
U+00A5 (165)
HTML 3.2
HTMLlat1
ISOnum
yen sign
brvbar
¦
U+00A6 ..
Blitzing the Story
| October 12, 2010 | Posted by The Futtock under Dark Seas, Writing |
It’s all about discipline!
I have spent the last couple of months writing. I have a full time job as well as part time work to make ends meet. I have a wife and kids. Time is hard to come by so the idea of writing a novel is not just a matter of perseverance, …
OneNote as a Writing Tool
| September 12, 2010 | Posted by The Futtock under Dark Seas, Writing |
By far the most powerful writing tool is a word processor. Over the years I have tried a lot of them and ended up with Word as most others.
Recently though I have discovered OneNote which is part of the basic Office package from Microsoft. It is for taking notes and organizing them. It is …
Preparation for Writing a Fantasy Novel
| August 11, 2010 | Posted by The Futtock under Dark Seas, Writing |
In preparation for my book I have been spending a lot of time thinking and taking notes. In the past whenever I have written something of any length I have found that it is hard to make it up as I go along and yet remember what has happened including names and places and …
Dark Seas – A First Novel
| July 11, 2010 | Posted by The Futtock under Dark Seas |
For the last fifteen years or so I have been planning to write a novel.
The reason it has taken me fifteen years is that I was not ready. Call it preparation or just plain idleness but it took me that long to decide that the time was right to sit down and write.
As a …
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