Archive for year 2006
Resolved… I think/hope.
Jun 3rd
Okay, ignore that last post. It now seems that the ISP hosting the web server I use has sorted its problems out and things are apparently back to normal. Thats good because I really wasn’t looking forward to hunting through my CDs for the backups. ;-) However, now on the flipside, Google seems to be…
Web server down, blog affected
Jun 3rd
Grrrrr. The web server that has all the images I use on this blog appears to have gone offline. This is a significant issue for me as I have no alternative right now and was running several different websites off that server. So until I get get hold of the company in Canada and try…
Can go Boom!
Jun 2nd
All sorts of weird and wonderful things happen around the world. But £35,000 of damage from a can of deorderant? DAMN! In a freak string of mishaps, Sean Davey, 18, left a washing basket full of clothes on top of the electric cooker. He then accidentally knocked one of the hob controls, turning on one…
Don’t forget your free rock
Jun 1st
This video is just absolutely brilliant. The best horror film I’ve ever seen. :-) Be warned, gratuitous violence at the end of it, but I challenge you to not laugh. :-) As always, video embedded in the full post. Remember folks, horror movies don’t have to last 2 hours :-)
Scaling back
Jun 1st
For quite a long time now I’ve been running advertising on Google Adwords for a couple of my projects. I have also been managing campaigns for my fathers advertising online as well. Unfortunately, its just not cost effective enough for me to bother continuing to pay Google such high amounts when the returns on those…
Just quickly on Dapper
May 31st
Just a quicky, but I’ll expand on it later. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS “Dapper Drake” release is absolutely brilliant and something I am very happy and proud to be using. I’ve been running it since the early testing stages (as I did with Breezy, Hoary and Warty before it) and am extremely impressed with what it…
Baby with 3 arms to lose an arm
May 31st
Found this on BoingBoing. Why do they have to cut it off? If I were that kid, I’d want to keep it. Who knows how useful it might be in 20 years time. Not to mention the Total Recall type movie roles I might get. Then again, this is China and we can’t be letting…
Compassion Fatigue or just can’t afford to?
May 30th
“Compassion fatigue” may be behind New Zealanders’ slow response to the Indonesia quake disaster, which killed more than 5000 people and has left hundreds of thousands homeless. New Zealand aid agencies said donations have been slow to come in since the magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit densely-populated central Java on Saturday. Public slow to donate to…
Official – Adobe Flash 9 for Linux will exist
May 29th
This may not affect many of you given I’m one of the few people I know that uses Linux for pretty much everything, but this is absolutely fantastic news from Adobe. Yes, Adobe is actively working on the Linux version of Flash Player 9. We expect to make a pre-release version available on Adobe Labs…