Water's Edge Hotel

Looking for a location in Cardiff this morning, for some reason a place I stayed when I was about nine came to mind. I think it was called the "Water's Edge Hotel", near Barry in Wales. We were about to go on away on the ship my father was working on at the time, the MV Geesthaven, which worked the Caribbean route out of Barry. But we had to stay at this hotel for a couple of days because the ship wasn't ready to go.
I seem to remember it was a modern, blocky hotel, in a quiet seaside neighbourhood, with a stony beach and a pitch-&-putt. That was way back in 1974. Time has not been kind to the place: I think the area wanted to make itself into a seaside resort-type place, but now it looks very overshadowed by Cardiff airport. I googled it and came up with the following:

It looks a bit sad, doesn't it? It's now been totally vandalised and recently demolished.
Full-size photo is here.
So why do I feel nostalgic about a sixties hotel block??

Mambo Admin Interface (again!)

I think I've at last stumbled across the solution for the Mambo admin login problem, on this forum page.

It seems to be working better for me now anyway.
It involves adding an extra line in the includes/mambo.php script. In my case, it had to be
session_save_path("/homeb/s2/www/jeannot.uklinux.net/tmp");
I assume that's right anyway... i.e. the full path of my web space - gotta remember to change this if I move host or upgrade Mambo!

This isn't just crap, this is M&S crap

Most annoying ads recently have got to be the ones for Marks & Spencer food. Variations on the following theme: gastroporn close-up of moist, dripping comestibles, with sultry voiceover telling you that this isn't just any old vegetable, this is the plumpest, dewiest, moonlight-harvested-est M&S vegetable. It reeks of snobbery: it's saying very clearly that if you buy stuff from any other supermarket, you are getting downmarket crap (which, OK, you probably are), but if you buy from M&S, you are getting perfection. The sort of perfection that requires describing in rich tones of luxury and privilege. The sort of perfection that the M&S target market demand. You wouldn't want to give your dinner party guests anything less would you? Imagine it! The guests are swooshing up the gravel drive in their gleaming new SUVs. You are in the kitchen scraping off some dirty vegetables, or struggling with a bog-standard lump of meat. No! For this, you don't just need food, you need M&S food.

Ronnie Barker RIP

Fave memory of him?
Probably Futtock's End. When I first saw it when I was - what? nine? - I thought it was the most hilarious thing imaginable. Rhubarb, rhubarb.

Pakistan Earthquake

A terrible event...

Mambo Admin Interface

I kept running into problems with trying to navigate the admin interface - it would keep presenting me with the login screen again. There are various posts on the Mambo boards about this, and it seems to be down to either:
1. PHP config,
2. Apache config,
3. browser config
or 4. something else.

Which narrows it right down.
Anyway, when I use Firefox to browse the admin site, it seems to happen a hell of a lot less than with IE!