function getarchives_filter($where, $args)
{
	if (isset($args['year']))
	{
		$where .= ' AND YEAR(post_date) = ' . intval($args['year']);
	}
	return $where;
}
add_filter('getarchives_where', 'getarchives_filter', 10, 2);

Now the wp_get_archives() function supports a year parameter which restricts results to one particular year. Next we modify the sidebar to make use of this additional argument. Here is an example of the correct call to make:

<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&year=' . get_the_time('Y', reset($GLOBALS['posts'])); ?>

This code also works properly when viewing the archives of a particular year, the months outputted change to the currently viewed year.

I have changed my own sidebar code to use this:

<li><h2>Archives</h2>
        <ul>
            <li><strong>Months</strong>
            <ul>
                    <?php
                    // Use the current date when viewing a page, not the pages year
                    $year = (is_page()) ? date('Y') : get_the_time('Y', reset($GLOBALS['posts']));

                    wp_get_archives('type=monthly&limit=12&year[]=' . $year . (!is_archive() ? '&year[]=' . ($year - 1) : ''));
                    ?>
            </ul>
            </li>
            <li><strong>Years</strong>
            <ul>
                    <?php wp_get_archives('type=yearly'); ?>
            </ul>
            </li>
        </ul>
</li>

Updated 31/01/2010: Paul spotted a bug, the code used the date of the last post displayed on the page rather than the first.

Dec 31 23:56:15 sandman rsnapshot[11655]: /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.d/mail.cs278.org hourly: completed successfully
Jan 1 01:15:30 sandman syslogd 1.5.0#5: restart.

Happy New Year to all!

Whilst I was at home this past week I got to work trying to work out what was up. The documentation in Debian about the LED sequences told me that it was getting stuck at the initramfs stage of boot. Basically it couldn’t load the actual operating system off the discs. This meant I would have to delve deep and play with the contents of the flash memory.

I mounted the USB sticks that I use as its discs on my server and extracted a copy of the current kernels and initramfs images that were on it. I also found the Debian installation flash firmware and set about hacking the two. I found some instructions on how to modify an existing image which is what I did. I swapped out the kernel and initramfs in the firmware for the latest ones on my discs and flashed the NSLU2. Same thing happened! So I then set about using the previous kernel version which worked like a charm. For now I have removed the new kernel from it and forced it to keep the old version. I will look into updating it when I have a little more time.

I’ve had a new desktop for the latter part of April inspired by a trip to Weston’s Cider of Much Marcle, Herefordshire over me holiday.

I am moving towards a landmark on last.fm, 100 000 tracks played. Not decided what will be my 100 000th track hopefully I don’t go over it by mistake with something non-worthy.

I leave you with the thought, why would a dairy company write “Allergy information: contains milk” on the side of a bottle of milk? Surely that is the whole idea? Or maybe I am missing something…