Jun
24
2007
Today is a momentus day, Nick and Rob Beer began life. This beer can be shorted to the ‘NOB’ brand - and for our first brew we are cooking up a nice german lager, ready for bottling next week and first drinking in about 3-4 weeks time. Apparently with homebrew stuff it generally gets better with age, so we will keep testing the beers (hard life) until we find the sweet spot for quality brews. This first batch is more a fact finding mission, however we are planning to get more and more onstream assuming this goes well!
Left: The fermenter all setup with the wert and concotion inside it.
Top Right: Nick doing the final touches to the cleaning of the gear.
Bottom Right: The wert being poured in. Note brewing in thongs aka sandels!
Jun
15
2007
As per the previous post I have spent the last day fiddling with Wordpress while working on a few (5 in total I think) sites, and realised that the reason why Rob.co.uk was rendering slowly was the amount of cruft in the K2 addon.
I have now ripped that out and am now using a modified freebie theme so everything ought to look nice and tidy.
One thing I have noticied is that the above picture of the Brisbane skyline is rather outdated in such a short period of time so I will have to nip down to the river and snap a replacement! It seems every other week there is a new sky scraper and crane going up - certainly a booming place.
Jun
14
2007
I have just been setting up Wordpress on a few domain names while developing a few mini sites in my main line of work. I have had no problem in the past, usually bang up the install zip and put a few DB details in an away you go.
However this time I was getting persistant ‘cannot connect to database’ errors - referencing wp-db.php line 373 etc - all quite odd as the DB server was most certainly running.
It turns out the error was this one which is todo with the way mySQL handles auth (this one) which Wordpress did not say, rather going for the more general ‘Erm, no DB there mate‘ verdict.
So how to fix it? I did the following mySQL command:
UPDATE mysql.user SET Password = OLD_PASSWORD(’thenewpassword’)
WHERE User = ‘dbusername’;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Note you cannot have the new password the same as the old one.
Dead easy when you know what the error is really, rather than a blanket ‘eh’ response.
Jun
10
2007
Even though it was a ‘nippy’ 23/24C today we (Myself, Amy and Mel) headed towards the beach to grab some lunch. We went north of Brisvegas to Redcliffe (Here is the exact googlemaps location) which has the views of the ocean, the north tip of Moreton Island , the top of ‘Straddie’ Island and down to the massive Brisbane port area with the huge huge cranes.
Redcliffe ‘beach’
(me on the right wearing nice red Mr T teeshirt with a picture of the great man himself and the immortal phrase “HE WILL KILL YOU TO DEATH”.)
Redcliffe is not really a proper Queensland beach due to it being inside the two islands (zoom out on the google map above to see what I mean) so next time I think we might head a little further north to the bottom of the Sunshine Coast. This of course is following the great auzzy naming tradition (Big Desert? With Sand? Lets call it the Big Sandy Desert) so it is a coast which gets lots of sunshine.
Jun
05
2007
Without becoming too much of an auzzy bore…here are a couple of postcards I found showing how big this place is. I had never really thought too much about the country apart from Neighbours, Harry Cool / Viduka and of course Tim ‘God’ Cahill. Since being to Ramsey Street and similar vital travel around Auz it does dawn on you that this place is massive.
and…
Plus the classic beer mats. How else do you tell people to drink your beer?
Australia is ace.
