The BBC are reporting details of the
World's longest tunnel being constructed underneath the Alps. I probably had a (very small) part in its construction.

Not really blog material, but it's my website, so what the hell! The command below will search for all XML files below the current directory and search for a # symbol:

find . -name "*.xml" -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -i -n '#' > /home/jon/file.txt

Useful for searching within files. It also correctly deals with spaces in filenames, prints the line number affected and a snippet of the line. Handy!

I thought I'd answer a few questions that no-one has asked (apart form me). How many people visit geologyrocks? How do they arrive? How long do they stay? Where are they from? I use two tools to tell me this inormation: google analytics and webalizer. The data I'll use here is from February, a short, but otherwise typical month.

I can't emphasise enough how extremely peeved I am at present. I've been carrying out daily nitrite tests on my new fish tank and the results are uninterpretable!

The really inconvenient truth about CO₂ levels and global warming is that the temperature change occurs about 800 years before the change in CO₂ levels. The simple interpretation of this is that CO₂ levels are an effect, not the cause of climate change.

Just watching The Great Global Warming Swindle on Channel 4. I have to say that I agree with most of what they say, and have agreed with the background for quite along time.

As you may know, GeologyRocks uses drupal, a rather excellent CMS. This brings about a few headaches when trying to develop your own code for it as the content (i.e. the stuff you need to test out your new code) is in the database, not as a series of HTML files as for a static websites. To help me develop new features for GeologyRocks, I've set up a development environment for drupal-based sites. This is how I did it...

Method

The aim is to create three versions of the website:

It has taken some time to get there but made it to fluorite.

Blog whoring (2 points for a blog article vs 1 for a forum post) is helping!

Onwards to Apatite!!

It seems that an MP has now picked up on the Bristol Channel Tsunami story.