April 2008 Archives
A friend put me onto www.quidco.com - it looks like a great way to save money. They pass you back all the referral fees they get from you making a purchase online. I bought car insurance from one of the companies they list and am set to get £70 back which is great! Add that £70 to the lack of a "loyalty penalty" that I would have suffered had I stayed with the same provider, and my insurance is about £100 cheaper.
I shouldn't be counting my chickens before they've been transferred to my bank account, but I'll keep track of this and see if it does actually pay out.
Afghanistan is now the world's largest producer of opium, and thereby its greatest source of herion. Eradicating this business should be a priority for the West as it is we that are consuming it, funding it, creating the demand and suffering the ill effects.
One simple experiment is this: get Monsanto (or equivalent) to develop a genetically unique, and sterile, food crop such as wheat. We could then pay Afghan farmers the going rate for opium to grow this instead. Investment and food is then being directed into the Afgan economy and the drug barons are hit where it hurts most - their wallets.
Okay, so the idea is pretty simple: to have a means to install CPAN modules via your web browser. A few attempts later and I have created CPAN::Web - a little CGI based web application that uses CPANPLUS to do the main work.
Hopefully it should just work once you extract the files. I know it probably won't and people will have issues with it, so please, please do make suggestions, check out the source and mess about with and generally help make it better. Who knows, maybe it will be a Good Thing some day?
For example, in mt/mt-config.cgi I had
CGIPath http://robbiebow.co.uk/mt/But I was accessing the control panel at
http://www.robbiebow.co.uk/mt/Changing one to be the same as the other and the problem was solved.
