Category: Internet

It seems that Google has bowed to pressure to remove listings for sites that distribute Kazaa Lite. If you search Google for “Kazaa”, “Kazaa Lite” and variants thereof, you get a notice: “In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 8 result(s) from this page. If you…

The Sobig virus is really virulent just at the moment. I got *20* emails today with it attached – far more than I’ve ever had in one day from any other virus. I’m keeping my antivirus software well up to date just now.

This site’s on Google!

Yesterday was London’s first Flash Mob. I suspect that this will be a short lived concept. The idea is that you’re given some instructions about meeting somewhere around town. At the given venue, you meet a contact who hands you further instructions in the form of a small piece of paper. With very precise timings,…

Yes of course this is a soapbox. This is my personal soapbox. I can write what I want! Does that make it worth reading. Umm… no. Not the fact that I’m writing it, just the fact that I might have something interesting to say.

I can see that Movable Type’s not brilliant at special characters without using proper HTML to describe them. Will bear that in mind. I’ve got a basic “Now Playing” section working, but I’ve kind of given up on the Amazon link, since for whatever reason, Winamp simply won’t pass more info than the song title…

Well I now have Winamp talking to my PC courtesy of the very smart Virtual Venus website and the associated plugins and scripting languages that their system uses. I just need to take it one step further, and that’s proving to be quite difficult. Basically I want it to have those very smart pop-up boxes.

Well I got my calendar right, but now I need to get my Now Playing working properly. More complicated than the instructions suggested. I shall persevere over the weekend. It may be something to do with firewalls here, so I’ll have bash at home.

Excellent! The week now starts on a Monday, which anyone in the world apart from the States knows. I used a patch from a kindly soul on the Movable Type support forum.

Well I haven’t sorted the calander yet, but I do seem to have managed to retrieve all my missing entries. They really were missing – probably as a result of the corrupt database, but the old HTML tables still existed on my server, so I was able to reconstruct the entries and import them back…

The best way of learning something new code-wise is to experiment, and steal other peoples code. So I’ve been busily borrowing from those fine people at Bluerobot to learn how to do three columns. There are a couple of things I’m not happy with. There are gaping holes in the top left and right hand…

I had a very geeky evening on Friday playing SOCOM online with several others from work using borrowed kit. I must admit that it was all enormous fun. So much so, that I went out to buy a network adaptor of my own yesterday. Now the thing to say about this is that Sony have…

When it all goes wrong. Actually I ran out of space on this server, and that had dire consequences for the Berkley DB on which this blog is sat. Even adding extra space was no good. Fortunately, the shift over to MySQL soon put things back on an even keel, and now I even have…