I just started my final week in the Ballymena Bookshop after almost 3 years. William is learning fast and will be grand once he settles into the surroundings. I remember those first couple of weeks of trying to find my feet and learn fast, i said a little about it here. I tried to learn as much about the christian book and music world as possible and as quickly, i think i did ok in the end! Its been great over the last few years watching the company change dramatically and the future looks very exciting.http://www.text-link-ads.com/xml_blogger.php?inventory_key=PH203EOCDRY2ZAL1H02V...
A couple of weeks ago v1.0 of my ICanHasCheezburger Windows Sidebar Gadget for Vista stopped working. The reason is that ICanHasCheezburger changed the URL of their RSS feed which the gadet uses to get its data.
v1.0.1 uses the new URL and normal service is......
I will admit that it is important, although the chaos that resulted after Gmail went down for an hour or so (for some, longer) last night was quite surreal. Thousands of tweets, widespread panic, and even an article to mark the occasion.
“productivity up of 20 million people” - Techcrunch
Though for many people, this quote is completely untrue. So many of us rely on Gmail. What do we do when it goes down? Should this make us think about having backups of our backups?
We all assume Google’s servers are safe for hundreds of years, but are they? Maybe they are, but sometimes things go wrong, even just for a short period of time. They tell us that although something has gone wrong, all our stuff is still safe - reassuring, but what if it wasn’t.
There wouldn’t be...
The Google Streetview Car (Streetcar?) spotted in Belfast (Queen’s Road, Titanic Quarter) yesterday morning whilst I sat in my car pondering on the future. A bloke on my Twitter watch list described seeing a similar car in Sheffield just an hour or so previously, or I wouldn’t have even realised it was the Google car (assuming he’s correct of course).
OK, the video’s not up to much, but I had been trying to take a photo......
I’ve come across this before and complained (to no avail, but the vent was worth it) but today I discovered that Ofcom has an accreditation scheme for broadband sites. This sounded promising so I checked out the two sites that I was advised had received said accreditation: SimplifyDigital.co.uk and BroadbandChoices.co.uk.
Long-time readers (pretending there are any) will know that misleading advertising broadband is a major pet peeve of mine. Not misselling speeds, because there’s no reliable way an ISP can accurately predict what speed your line will take (if you don’t already have broadband). This mis-selling is much worse; I’m talking about the companies who lie in their headline speeds by advertising broadband “from £4.99 a month” for the first...
Tall Skinny Kiwi posted a link to this blog a few days ago, i am slow to post it here!! The blog 'about' section says this;Who is God?' was one of the top three sentences googled in 2007, according to Google Zeitgeist. According to Alexa, the top two religious websites are Muslim, with BibleGateway coming in at a close third. The Online Generation is spiritual. They are seeking. And the church is the last place they would go to find spiritual fulfillment. This site is dedicated to those walking with The Online Generation and living lives of obedience to all the commands of Jesus Christ.Important words? Read the rest of their site description here. There is a lot on this site to inspire and even more to think about. Does your Church realize that the internet is HUGE and can be used to...
I haven’t come across anything truly groundbreaking in Firefox 3, possibly because I’ve become accustomed to much of the feature set through the Betas and RCs, but there are one or two improvements that are quite useful (as well as a couple of regressions unfortunately).
Wee Niggles
First the bad. When you view Page Info from the context menu it doesn’t give a link to the CSS file in the Media tab any more. I was sure it was there in 2 and a quick google confirmed this. This really sucks - I can’t see why they’ve taken it out.
Secondly, when I was looking through the options to try and return the aforementioned CSS links, I discovered Firefox had decided it was going to automatically download any future updates when they were discovered (I promptly switched...
Looks like the excitement is a little bit premature. Not just yet, but at 6pm BST the newest version of Mozilla’s FireFox web browser will be released. Mozilla want Firefox 3 to break the record for the most downloads in 24 hours, which begs the question as to why they pissed off Australasia and half of Asia by promoting Download Day as today, 17th June, when they’re not making the new version available until 10am Pacific Time which means the aforementioned regions will not see the download released until it is 18th June there. That’s without even considering yours truly and millions of other Europeans who will be finished their days work.
Good work......
The University of Ulster seems to have caught onto the Google Apps train. I was looking up the address of my Placement Supervisor and it seems staff now are able to update a personal Google Pages site of their own. Hopefully it means they will replace the awful Novell NetMail system which is just a pain to use.
I use Google Apps here on kginter.net, and it works great, really takes the hassle out of setting up email accounts. The Google Mail app which is basically Gmail with an @kginter.net and is really the best bit. If you already own a domain then you can get Google Apps for free, or for a small fee Google will throw in a domain too. Along with Google Mail, Apps also includes Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites and Start......
There’s only a limited supply left, and blowing up the half Middle East hasn’t helped. Petrol prices are only going up. I found this useful website on while on a general Google. Petrol Prices.com is a free website which contains price data for over 10,000 UK petrol stations.
You can either use the quick search and get the five cheapest petrol stations within a five miles, or sign up and get unlimited data for up to 20 miles from your home.......
The BBC in Londonderrystrokederrycityorjustfoyle have launched two new websites for people in the west of Northern Ireland, or indeed anyone in general who likes to keep abreast of events there.
The first is a new news homepage dedicated to the news in the west of Northern Ireland. The other is for BBC Radio Foyle which has a nice new design following in the new style BBC homepage.
Oddly the BBC’s ‘west’ seems seems to include the north coast towns of Coleraine and even Ballycastle. Although in all fairness, both are west of......
The ongoing evolution of the web is fascinating, the possibilities seem endless and dont we all wonder how it works? the answer from The Hugh Grant Squid Test"The internet is made up of millions of brass pipes connecting huge underground reservoirs full of facts, ideas and nonsense. Information is pushed around the system using enormous steam-powered pumps.Although it has been around less than a generation, the internet is now more than three times the size of Jesus. It continues to expand at the rate of two a year.Here are most popular things people do on the internet (not counting looking at naked people):1) finding recipes for teriyaki salmon2) hiding3) downloading morris dancers4) origami5) changing foreign currency6) learning about bats7) making smells8) posting photographs of...
I recently moved this site to a new host because of ongoing problems with my previous hosts. Thanks to some intermittent database errors I’d decided it would be prudent to do my first backup in some time at the start of last week. By the end of that week they’d deleted my account, so I suppose I should be grateful their database server was so f**ked. Nevertheless, the move caused a few issues when my new hosts told me the complete backup I uploaded to them was corrupt. I can only assume (because some backups were corrupt and others weren’t) that it was due either to encrypting the archives using AES in Winzip or decrypting them in 7zip.
Anyway, that meant manually creating the accounts, setting up the mail accounts and subdomains in them, extracting the root folders...
O hai!
I hart lolcatz.
I hart lolcatz so much dat wun dai I thoughted “I can has lolcatz wen I makes teh pooter turn on?” So I maded a Vista gadjit an now I has new lolcatz every dai.
If u hart lolcatz liek mee an wants lolcatz in ur pooter makin u laff, downlodes mah gadjit. I has tested it 4 liek rly long time. It rly works, srsly. An evry1 needses moar lolcatz.
Kthxbai.
* If you think that was hard to read, you should see the lolcat......
I upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.5 today, and installed a new copy of Wordpress on a subdomain too. Both these actions were carried out using cPanel & Fantastico.
When I logged into the backend of the new subdomain there were no images - including no buttons on the rich-text editor (TinyMCE) and no Wordpress logo on the login screen. I later noticed there were also background images missing on the public part of the new blog. When I right clicked “View background image” on the missing image, it took me to an HTTP 403 (Forbidden) meaning there was a permissions problem. The strange thing was the problem didn’t occur in the nerd. backend.
And the solution…? In this instance it was because I’d enabled hotlink protection in my server to stop other...
The king of Internet ideas, Ze Frank, has started a Colorwar.
Have taken my throw.
ROCK!
Go noTeam!...
Finally I can have events from my Outlook calendar in work sync with my Thunderbird calendar (enabled using the Lightning plugin) automatically. It’s wonderful… or at least it nearly is.
How It Works
I read some time back of a plugin that allows you to sync your Thunderbird/Lightning calendar (or Sunbird if you prefer to use Mozilla’s calendar in a standalone application) with your Google calendar, which I’m sure is useful for some people, but not me. I’ve never used a Google calendar really. However that memory proved useful when I heard that a Google have released a utility to allow you to sync your Google calendar with your Outlook calendar. I’m sure you can see where I’m going with this…......
I’ve just added a list of 24 Jack Bauer Facts to the jokes section of my web site (the first update in a while). Highlights include:
When Kim Bauer lost her virginity, Jack found it and put it back.
Once, someone tried to tell Jack Bauer a “knock knock” joke. Jack Bauer found out who was there, who they worked for, and where the god damned bomb was.
The city of Los Angeles once named a street after Jack Bauer in gratitude for his saving the city several times. They had to rename it after people kept dying when they tried to cross the street. No one crosses Jack Bauer and lives.
If you like them check out the full list. If not, I don’t know what to tell you. Go watch......
When I first heard of Twitter I thought it was so totally ridiculous. Sending and receiving txt messages is not new. It’s distinctly old technology. So I signed up.
After receiving some useless messages from some people I had added - the sort of messages that said, “Just got the kids to bed, now gonna have lots of hot sex with the wife” or “Monday mornings suck, I hate my job”, or “I hate technology and computers. What’s a blog?”
As well as the usual mutterings of new technology ideas, crazy entrepreneurs telling us their new money-making scheme, conferences in Cork, Seminars in Limerick, photo meets in Dublin and sheep giving birth to deformed creatures from hell with a Tinyurl linking to a picture.
So 11 months after getting bored and...
Remember that letter that wasn't a letter and didn't exist that was never written and never shown to Ian Paisley which didn't make clear to him that he was to stand down? The number 33 hangs in the air when signatures are mentioned. Have a ponder on that number.
Whatever it was or wasn't, and no matter who did and didn't sign it, it worked, and now Peter Robinson has quite a job on his hands. He has a balancing act to perform to an extent that Paisley never did. As Jim Allister has articulated Robinson isn't Paisley and wont be able to carry party opinion so readily and so dogmatically. What we know or can very safely assume is Robinson as First Minister, Dodds to Finance, Foster where she is and Poots is likely toast. So who gets DETI, DECAL and the junior ministers bag?
Robinson...
I have kind of a love-hate relationship with my ISP. Their speeds are pretty good (I think, anyway) and their culture (if you like) or their philosophy, is great. I like the wee touches like their community forum and blog and I love their geographic (01) phone numbers for support. I’ve never had to use them so I don’t know how good they are once you’re actually on the phone, but at least you don’t have to worry about the cost. 0p a minute works fine for me.
I know I always mention it, largely because it’s my only real complaint, but I do hate the peak-time usage limit of 8GB per month. I understand bandwidth costs them money and I know I can get more for a relatively low cost either through additional bandwidth bundles, pay-as-you-go or a £5 package...
I’m feelin’ a little weird doing this. It was hilariously funny. They sussed it out and sent a nice little apology.
Why am I doing this. Well just to follow up on the story. Maybe I should have just left it at that. But what the heck.
from Clint Word <cword@godtube.com>
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Dear Members,
At GodTube, we take the responsibility of monitoring site content 24 hours a day very seriously. We are the Christian site where you can feel assured you will find clean images and dialog.
We’ve been made aware that on March 4, you may have received an email that appeared to be from our Customer Care department. If you did receive the email, we offer our apologies. The subject line and content of...
Seeing as no one has bothered to comment on this on Slugger, we'll see if it can prompt a little debate here.
As far as I recall, public bodies aren't required to publish FOI disclosures, but it's quite good practice to do so. The NIO do (or at least seem to - the list is remarkably spartan) and it makes interesting reading. In particular the most recent disclosure has some interesting information in it.
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Here is an email I received 30mins ago.
I’m not genius at tracing mail but it seems like it is coming from Godtube. This was in the original/detailed message:
Received: from FE4.exchange.rackspace.com ([10.244.5.57])
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To anyone who is concerned about the effect hip hop culture is having on western society - I have some evidence to submit. With exibit B.Powered by...
Finally the inevitable has happened, and the octogenarian First Minster has decided to quit. I just got a text which is very incisive. "If you listen carefully, you'll hear O'Neill, Chichester Clark and Faulkner laughing".
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Robin Bury has an excellent letter on the Reform Movement blog (links not working properly on this computer - http://reformblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/aims-of-reform-letter-by-robin-bury.html ). Well worth a read.Powered by...
There had been rumours that this year would be better than the previous two, and with the addition of intros, music and a few words from George Bush it was. Once again, but very deservedly, Twenty Major won the award for best blog, coinciding with the recent release of his book the two prizes go hand in hand. Maybe it’s time to give someone else a chance next year.
Highlights of the night include Robin Blandford’s mum collecting his prize on his behalf, Kieran Murphy of Ice Cream Ireland’s dress sense, Nialler9 winning once again, Grannymar and Grandad sharing the same stage.
The award for best photoblog this year went to Claire of Gingerpixel and with her blog being filled with so many brilliant photographs, especially her great portraits of people she has stopped in...
This really pissed me off. I heard on Radio 5's Drive programme in the car on the way home from work today that Prince Harry has been in Afghanistan, fighting on the front line, for 10 weeks. The media knew this and said nothing. Obviously this was necessary to protect Harry and the other soldiers working with him from becoming walking bullseyes for the Taliban.
There were complaints about the media doing a deal with the government to keep this secret. The deal was they get fairly up-close and personal to Harry in exchange for not reporting it until after he's back home. I'm not one to praise the media very often, but the fact that the whole of the British media kept this secret, I think, demonstrates that they do actually have the ability to recognise that there are one or two things...
There's plenty wrong with copyright laws in this country. Instead of fixing those things though, the government want ISPs to do their dirty work, monitor everything you download and ban users from the internet if they download copyrighted material. There are so many things wrong with this I don't know where to start!
1. It's an invasion of privacy. This is the most immediately obvious problem. That's fair enough if you're one of those downloading illegal content, but it's essentially treating everyone as guilty (by stripping them of their right to privacy) until proven innocent. There isn't even a "reasonable grounds for suspicion" protection.
2. It's not technologically feasible. Discussing this very issue, one ISP that monitors the types of traffic on their network quite closely...