Sometimes feel like I am literally the only person that looks at our print media and thinks “Wait, does that meet our #accessibility guidelines?”
Month: February 2025
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
Once again I fine myself wondering, “if a film achieves everything it sets out to, what is there to criticise”?
★★★½
I can only assume #Trump plans to invade Greenland if Denmark don’t do a “deal”, then
A former Marine confronts corruption in a small town when local law enforcement unjustly seizes the bag of cash he needs to post his cousin's bail.
After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.
As the war between the Capitol and the districts reaches its peak, Katniss Everdeen embarks on a perilous mission to liberate Panem and confront President Snow. Joined by a team of trusted allies, she navigates deadly traps, shifting loyalties, and the heavy cost of rebellion, determined to bring freedom to her people and end the Hunger Games once and for all.
Considering it’s the finale, it’s kind of flat. There’s a grim and grinding inevitability that makes it feel more like a chore. Maybe that’s the source material, though.
★★★
“[After the pandemic] suddenly people were used to working from home and in many cases I don’t think there was that same desire to have their child in school while they were at home,” he said.
I assume this is asserted without any evidence. Clearly this person never tried to work from home with children around.
Ignoring 404s from specific user agents with WordPress Redirection plugin
I use the WordPress Redirection plugin (https://wordpress.com/plugins/redirection) to manage redirects on our production site.
One of the more annoying things I deal with is random crappy bots that just crawl the site occasionally. Because they crawl so rarely (and inexpertly) they often look for ancient pages, or use ridiculous URL parameters (if anyone knows why they do this can you let me know in the comments?)
Rather than treat these as valid 404s, I think it’s best to ignore them completely. However, matching a user agent string in Redirection is not straight forward. To this end I wrote a Regex to match three of the most annoying culprits: MojeekBot, SeekportBot & Barkrowler.
Maybe it’ll help you too.