Clearing Drupal 7 Cache Manually

After killing bfclife.co.uk I needed to manually clear the cache to get back on it, after Googling forever I couldn't find out how.  So I did it manually, once connected to the database I ran

TRUNCATE TABLE cache


Problem solved :-)

Pandora Internet Radio

Its been a while since I've blogged anything geeky so here we go with a bit of information about Pandora internet radio.  Pandora is a US internet radio service that is really clever, you give it an artist or song title and it creates a virtual radio station with similar music.  You will be amazed at how well it works, your favorite song title will produce a selection of music that is just your taste, read on

Rome the End

Worst day so far, home time!! Had a really good night in the irish bar last night, it was rammed for the rugby. This is my last entry and I don't want it to be, don't get me wrong i miss my boys but I would do anything for a few more days. I now have to try and sum up Rome in such a manner that you all book trips to come here immediately. Rome is mental, awesome, magnificent, stupendous, breath taking, wowiful......rubbish, don't go, see if I care. For anybody reading that has enjoyed my light hearted wittering but can not tolerate self obsessing soul searching shite please skip the next few paragraphs and go straight to the acknowledgements (of which there are none as all the people and places in my blog are fictitious and any similarities to real people/places are purely coincidental).

Rome Day 5

Day 5, like I said yesterday today is Angels and Demons day and this is my penultimate Rome blog. I will warn you now that today has been a pretty busy day so standby for a blog and a half. For anybody that hasn't read the book, watched the film or both I will quickly outline the plot otherwise the whole of today won't make much sense. Before I do I must point out that i am more of a catholic than a historian, so please take my ramblings with a pinch of salt. If you stumble across this blog and intend to use any part of it for anything other than light hearted toilet reading please dont acknowledge me, i dont know what i am talking about. The main character in Dan Browns book is a symbologist named Robert Langdon, played by Tom Hanks in the films. In Angels and Demons Robert langdon is called to vatican city following the death of the pope. In addition 4 cardinals, the favourites to succeed the pope known as the Perferiti, have been kidnapped. At the large hadron collider in Geneva a canister containing anti matter, potentially more destructive than a nuclear blast, has been stolen and hidden somewhere inside vatican city. The ancient secret group, the Illuminati are claiming responsibility for all the events and are threatening to execute the four cardinals every hour starting at 8pm. At midnight the suspended antimatter, currently suspended in mid air, will collide with matter and destroy the whole of vatican city. How exciting!!! So the four cardinals are to be executed at four points along the mythical path of illumination and Robert Langdon is on a race against time to discover the four points and ultimately the location of the anti matter.

Rome day 4

So it's day 4 and I forgot to set an alarm so spent most of the morning in bed, oops!!! It came to my attention yesterday that I had at least 5 readers and i'm now feeling the pressure to produce the goods. As I havent done anything this morning I will talk briefly about the crazy traffic situation. For anybody thinking about travelling to Rome you should be aware of the traffic situation in order to remain alive. There are two types of crossing in rome, pedestrian crossings and zebra crossings. And there are two types of drivers, those that are actually trying to kill you and those that do a pretty good impression of the first type. First up the pedestrian crossing, the same as in England with one significant difference, the green man doesn't mean that nobody is going to try and kill you. They are safer than the zebra crossings but it's a false sense of security. The zebra crossings are marked in the same way as the ones in England however, cars will not stop to allow you to cross and normally they won't stop whilst your crossing until the very last minute and leave you in no doubt that if they could've got away with it they would have enjoyed ending your life. So when crossing roads either close your eyes and run like hell or don't and just see one side of Rome!!

Rome Day 3

So day three, when I woke this morning a number of thoughts went through my head. First, what the hell is that noise, second, I am going to vatican city today, third, I have to go dressed as a nun and finally, fourth, how much did I have to drink last night. So I went back to sleep!!!! Eventually I dragged my sorry little arse out of bed and started a day I was very much looking forward to. It is probably worth explaining that I am in no way a catholic but you've got to admit the pope is pretty cool. Like i said today is vatican city day, I decided to take the advice of my mother in law and walk most of the way. For anyone reading that hasn't met my mother in law and doesn't know me that well, I don't normally take advice because I am too pig headed and my mother in law normally gives shit advice, haha! But on this occasion it was good advice, I got the metro to termini and then walked to vatican city. I adopted a slightly different approach to navigation today and used a map, anybody reading that hasn't come across one of these map things before (most blokes) trust me they're not a bad bit of kit, even though you do like a bloody idiot tourist!!

End of day 2

In my opinion OMG is, after LOL, the most misused TLA in use but I can honestly say that OMG doesn't start to describe Rome. Most of the things I have seen today are not in a tourist area, they are not like Washington, a city designed for tourists, they are real. Some would say that Rome like the arc of constantine are living in the past but I disagree, I think Rome is just very aware of the fact that it has more history than other city in the world. Subsequently this means you get a mix of a modern city engulfed in a breath taking history tour, what will tmrw bring !!