I’ve been playing Ratchet and Clank on the new PS2 – its a great game. For help, walkthroughs and cheats (which I’ve not used yet – honest!) click on this useful link at zdnet

Hmmm – it looks like my email client bombs out if there are spaces in mailto urls. Thats not very good. mail1 and email2. I know that Microsoft Outlook works it out correctly though.

WinXP pages are a useful guide to what services or not can can be left installed on an XP machine. I saved 20MB of ram on my installation

Useful for filling in those pesky marketing forms, Oftel has a link which gives numbers that don’t exist for use in drama scenes ie 0161 496 0008. This is great for giving out fake or dummy numbers to salesmen or even to some dodgy person down the pub.

ASP Photo Gallery V2 might be handy to take a look at. Sounds like they were using similar ideas to my asp gallery idea, but they are using xml to store the data rather than an access database. This version will only support one directory too.

I am listening to Yahoo’s LaunchCast service as I’m working on the webpage but some of the icons were not displayed. This was because I had lots of hosts such as a1604.g.akamai.net in my hosts file pointing to localhost to stop ads being displayed and unfortunately Yahoo uses images on these servers 🙁

w.Bloggar has been giving me some timeout errors when using it to create the posts. Really annoying as half the time it actually has posted it! I think the errors are when it comes to pinging weblogs.com

Conquercam has a new version out.(Webcam picture updated!)

Now I have to go downstairs and be sociable with Kristen as it’s New Years Eve! Doesn’t feel like it though. Working in the office until 5pm makes it feel just like an ordinary day. Mind you, we don’t often get ordinary days where a customers server falls over as they only have 1mb left on their C: drive, 3000+ print jobs in the print queue and an administrator who doesn’t know what the password,what remote control software, or the ip address is!