…the soft core years…very soft core…
As with most entertainers there reaches a point in the career when they do something that they wouldn’t want their granny to watch, so bad it’s on one of ITV’s other channels.
I took a glance at ITV 2’s “Secret Diary Of A Call Girl” the TV version of Belle De Jour’s book staring one time cheeky popstril, time lord assistant in “Dr. Who the crap years” and wife of the third most annoying ginger twat in the country - I’ll let Mick Hucknall and Steve McClown fight over first place - Billie Piper (pictured), hey it was midnight and there was bugger all else on.
I’d taken a glance at the blog sometime back when it was talked about in the Sunday glossies but I take up too much time reading about the misfortunes of Spurs and the Yankees to read some probably made up malarky, no matter how kinky.
But watching it made me think as a stereotypical, tight wad, Yorkshireman, I’ve never employed the services of a high class whore, I’m so tight I’ve never employed a very low class one either but I’m left wondering if all women of such occupation go about their job without actually taking all their clothes off.
It does seem rather odd that none of her clients would say as indeed David Lee Roth did on the track “Dirty Movies”…”take it all off” and that in her own bath with no one about she seems rather coy and prone to covering up, you’d think someone in such an job would be more open now wouldn’t you. I suppose that’s why we’ve heard nothing but Piper going on about the lingerie 
But the main problem is old Chazbaps in the lead role, even with the amount of flesh she has on show all I can think of is she’s going to whip out a certain fruit as a sex toy…all together now…
Tra-La-La, La-La-La-La
Tra-La-La, La-La-La-La
Tra-La-La, La-La-La-La
Tra-La-La, La-La-La-La
One banana, two banana three banana, four.
Four Bananas make a bunch and so do many more.
…no not the TV serial killer nor the tenor saxophonist.
But the new version of WordPress (2.3) named after the latter.
So I tried the new version yesterday with what I had done for version 4 of Toxic Web and it was as I thought in my previous rambling the various plugins I had that were to do with categories didn’t work.
I wanted the category list to only show the parent categories except when you were viewing a specific category and then it’s children would be displayed, Fold Category List, did that perfectly in the previous version but not know, I’ve botched together a bunch of is_ and !is_ statements to get something close but it ain’t quite there yet.
The front end of the site was going to be like now, welcome page, details of the different sections with a few of the latest posts from the blog so I looked for a plugin that could limit the number of posts depending on what part of the site it was, again there was one out there Custom Query String - UTW edition, which again now is borked. I’ve managed to get it to work for the WordPress conditional rules such as is_home, is_archive, is_date, is_feed, is_tag etc but so far changing the code to work for individual categories is beyond me.
The native tagging support new to v2.3 import works well enough from UTW, haven’t tried from BunnyTags yet will do later but as I said the thing seems half arsed with no management page. As Christine pointed out in reply to my previous rambling she has put up a Tag Management plugin, which is exactly the type of thing that should have been built in in the first place. Does exactly as it says on the tin, though not when using IE, for me anyway, works fine with FF but jscript errors in IE.
SEO Title Tag is another plugin that I ran into trouble with, works fine with everything except tag pages, which leads to another problem how do I get the “nicename” for the tags to show up? When looking at a page for a specific tag, say “New York Yankees” how do I get that phrase in the page title or a header for example, like you could do with the likes of UTW_ShowCurrentTagSet(’tagsetcommalist’), UTW_ShowCurrentTagSet(’tagsettextonly’) in UTW. The code < ?php echo get_query_var('tag'); ?> prints out the tag slug but I don’t want “new-york-yankees”. This would also be useful for adding meta keywords as UTW could do.
As I write this I figure I should have a look round some of the v2.3 compatible themes, chances are someone has come up with an answer.
The Quoter plugin had a small glitch where it would automatically add a comment to the textarea if you click a link to the comment, say in a recent comments list for example but that’s been sorted out.
One thing that did work was FAlbum, where in WP 2.2.x I’d get a load of jscript errors and it would totally hijack the sites tags so they were unusable it know seems to work OK, just a small jscript conflict with Alex King’s Wp Grins but that seems to come and go. Don’t know if I’ll include the FAlbum just yet.
Other than all that everything seems to work well I’m just gald I checked it all out on my box with Xampp than having to do it with a live site.
Basil Brush explains his views on gypsies
