I haven’t updated this place in a long, long time.

Edit: Oooh that worked. Have just tweaked the site to run on octopress/jekyll and deploy via rsync/ssh.

I might actually enjoy updating this soon.

This Easter, I spent some time in the lovely small town of Walhalla, after a night camping near Thompson Dam.

A useful php function for presenting a date in a short easy to read format wrapped in an <abbr> tag that displays a longer version of the date.

Your mileage may vary.

function helpful_date($date, $sd_format = 'd/m/y', $ld_format = 'g:ia, l jS F Y', $non_date_return = 'n/a'){

    // send back any non applicable dates.
    // send back any unconvertable dates.
    if( $date == '' || !( $time = strtotime($date) ) ){ return $non_date_return; }

    // adjust time for time difference
    //$time += Config('timediff');

    $long_date  = date($ld_format, $time);
    $short_date = date($sd_format, $time);

    return '<abbr title="'.$long_date.'">'.$short_date.'</abbr>';

}

I realised today that I have spent more of my twenties living in Australia than I have in England. A slightly useless but fun fact I guess.

After the disappointing experience that was Force Unleashed II, I have been playing a lot of XBLA games to tide me over until Arkham City is released (as evidenced by completing Limbo a little while ago).

Whilst hunting for a new platform style game, I came across Super Meat Boy, a nice slice of fiendishly difficult, super high paced fun. I am playing through it at the moment, but watch the video below for an indication of the game play style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ohjyhICYco

I would highly recommend this game to anybody with an Xbox 360/Wii/PC, even though I know for a fact that I will never complete this game…

Well, unless I grow an extra pair of fingers and start taking speed… actually that’s quite the idea…