Created my own template for Enetation

Changed my comments over to Enetation’s comment system. unfortunately this means the old comments have gone (for now).

Wanna see what my website looks like in Lynx – the text only browser?

Now this looks cool, and just what i’ve been wanting – an application that works with Microsofts Messenger. You add a contact and then your webpages (blogs) that you want to monitor and it sends you an instant message when the webpage changes!
Thanks to Life of a one man IT department – and I know how that feels!

Some changes to the sidebar made tonight. I’ve added the Rings/Blog groups in a section on the right. The newest that i’ve signed up to is

Wow – even though the google challenge is over, my site still came in tenth in the list!

Also, for the first time, If you own XP Home or XP Pro, you can legally downgrade and install any Windows desktop OS and be legal. This is on the Microsoft website (note the link is a word document) and went into effect September 1, 2001, but, again, no one said anything.

I received this in an email today, so if you are interested then let me know either by comment or email.
“I should like to ask you if you are a direct descendant of THOMAS THE BARRISTER? I am through one of his daughters, Anne, and through my grandmother have in my possession a prayer book which has written inside it Thos.Helsby of Gateacre 1810, Wm.Helsby, 1829 and Thos: 1855. The latter signature is exactly the same as one on a portrait that Geoffrey de Helsby in America possesses as he is a direct descendant of Thomas. Unfortunately he does not have any male heirs and I am looking for someone who I could give the book to. My own family, I feel, would not be interested in caring for the book. There are others in America who are descended from Thomas but we do not seem able to contact them. I wonder if you could help me? I know on your web site you say that your father copied the original scroll and thought, therefore, you may know who else is a direct descendant.”

Information for the previous two links were found at microcontent which has a long article about influencing google through the blog which makes interesting reading, especially after the Google challenge was removed.

For those of you who are concerned over the links below, its part of a Google Bomb campaign (oh oh – now that phrase means the CIA and MI5 will be monitoring my web page!) to ensure that sickos searching for that information get a bit of sense knocked into them. (and yes it is (almost) safe to click on them. – there is just one dodgy word on the web page.)