The bloke of Netbloke, mentioned the band Guster with a link to their site. Their site is pretty interactive with a lot of flash bits but using flash well rather than just because. The diary is annoying in that it opens each day in a new page, but the audio player is pretty good. You can listen to full tracks via the flash interface with a neat “birds eye” way of playing the tracks. The bird is also used for navigation a lot and just try clicking it on the main page. AND the best bit is for the short-of-cash people you can download live shows from Archive.org and live shows always make the best recordings of an album.
I know Neil zips his pages and so does Chris (as he asked if I could switch it on for helsby.net (but I think he meant absoblogginlutely.net)) but on reading up about it, there are two scary reads that talk about 2KB of data going missing, which is certainly one way of compressing the data! There is also the Browser Compatibility issue where css files could not be downloaded and Netscape 3 doesn’t even see the file at all! (and i’ve had 38 hits from Netscape
I submitted my cv online this morning to a company that sounded like they had an interesting job and I wanted more information on it. By the end of the day I had 7 emails to the same address (with the email I used this morning) with the same subject “Personal details update link” from 7 different companys with 6 different email names (and 7 domains). All of them welcoming me to their company and asking me to update my details with a unique userid (all different) and telling me how my data is stored under the data protection act. I don’t remember accepting to have my details passed on and I certainly didn’t want that much spam! Say away from jobboard.com
Mandrake Update had 82 packages that needed fixing totalling 352mb. Now Microsoft get slammed for having lots of patches and download quantities but I don’t think they’ve released that many patches in the time that Mandrake 9.1 has been installed and certainly not that big either. AND Microsoft service packs are often found on magazine cover disks saving the download. (I just hope I can find where these patches have been downloaded to so I can reinstall from them at a later date if I need to.)
You know how annoying it is when you drop the toast and it lands butter side down on the floor on your foot? Well think yourself lucky you don’t work for Lockheed Martin and have butterfingers as I think even your steel capped shoes would not help much when you drop a satellite on the floor. Thanks Reflective Reality
I received this warning in an email this morning:-
“There is an advisory out warning dog owners of an unknown assailant shooting dogs in their own yards. Police have advised dog owners to keep their pets indoors as much as possible and under close supervision when let outdoors.”
See below for a police sketch of the suspect.
DNS Stuff has a lot of useful tools for performing various dns lookups.
Angela and Mike took some really neat photos of some chalk drawings on I670. Thanks for posting these Angela!
Mandrake 9.1 went on the laptop yesterday after 3 attempts. The install would just hang half way through. The second install I told it to show me the details of what it was doing as it progressed and I found it was failing to read the cd when installing the zip package, so the third time I didn’t tell it to install zip and it worked …….
Yes I know its not *my* browser of choice anymore, but it is what corporate users need to use and rather than download the files each time I wanted to save a copy to my hard disk. Unfortunately this option is not available from the main Microsoft web site but following the instructions at ZenVendor.com did the trick.