Skuds.org has moved to a new server. Apparently. It doesn’t look any different for the average punter, but it is supposed to be a much better computer in a much better datacentre with a much more reliable power supply and all that. The only visible signs are that there is a newer version of php […]
Entries Tagged as 'Internet'
Build It Up, Tear It Down
October 30th, 2008 · Comments Off on Build It Up, Tear It Down · Technology
Last week I went a little outside my comfort zone when selecting products from Amazon’s Vine programme to review and chose a software package – something called WebSite X5 which is, not surprisingly, a website creation package.  This site runs under WordPress so there is no point using another package here, but I do have […]
Return To Sender
September 24th, 2008 · Comments Off on Return To Sender · Technology
In the last couple of days I have noticed a new trend with the bits of spam e-mail that get past all the various anti-spam defences: read receipts. Â
Old Red Eyes Is Back
September 16th, 2008 · Comments Off on Old Red Eyes Is Back · Life, Technology
For a change it wasn’t my fault that this site was unavailable for a day or so. Sounds like the hosting company were having a bad time, according to their support blog. Unfortunately my server (ans09) was one of the first to fail and one of the last to come back.
Tags: Internet
Brand New Friend
September 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Technology
Today I took the plunge and downloaded Chrome, the new browser from Google. Â I would have done it earlier but for the last couple of days I have been a bit out of it – yesterday I decided to take a quick nap at 7pm and slept through to this morning! Â All the fallout from […]
Now everyone’s a paparazzo!
July 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Now everyone’s a paparazzo! · Life, Technology
It was announced on the Flickr blog on July 8th but I only knew about it from this story in the Guardian’s media section today (so score one for the ‘dead tree media’ I suppose).  The plan is that Getty Images will trawl through the photos on Flickr to look for ones they think are […]
Is this a record?
July 14th, 2008 · Comments Off on Is this a record? · Life
Today I received a “not read” e-mail notification. My original e-mail was sent on Jan 19th and today the recipient deleted it, unread. Now that is somebody who has a serious mail backlog problem!
Tags: Internet
Mash it up
July 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Mash it up · Politics, Technology
I do like the sound of what my friend ((well… friend on Facebook anyway)) Tom Watson is trying to do with government data. I’m sure it will go down very well with the Guardian’s technology section which has been pushing its ‘Free Our Data’ campaign for ages now. In fact, what Tom is trying to […]
I knew it had ‘World’ in it somewhere
June 24th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Music
Quite a while ago I heard a track on the radio that immediately rang a bell with me: “Ah. The theme music from World in Action” I thought. I decided I would procure the track so I immediately looked up World in Action on Wikipedia. Sure enough, there was a section on the title sequence […]
Glitches
June 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Technology
Something really strange happened here yesterday. I was halfway through posting about our afternoon of throwing £72,000 cars around Surrey, and WordPress just stopped working properly. Somehow I became logged out, and then I couldn’t log back in again.
