Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

I’d like to thank AOL for giving me a heads up about opening my new email account. I was getting plagued by “you have mail” type messages when I launched Trillian which is a little wierd considering the fact that I just have an AIM account not an AOL account with email and the whole lot.

I finally got over to the support forums where I found this thread however which informed me that they are now signing everyone up for an @netscape.net account. They must really be desperate. Who is going to use it? Everyone loves gMail and those who don’t use Hotmail or a really cool extention. Nobody is going to use these new accounts.

Though I’m probably going to forget about it tomorrow and never finish it, the development is going well. The dynamic images thing was crap so I scrapped it and put useful features in – the albums are not automatically indexed and have track information too.

What I need to do now is allow people to submit reviews and put in some kind of moderation system too and I think that pretty much takes care of everything.

Oh I need to sort out the ads too :p.

I’ve been putting some work in on AudioSenate.net. The old system wasn’t working well enough so there is going to be a new one which automatically indexes the albums from each artist and will contain more information, not just reviews.

I’m getting some massive performance issues with any posts I insert a photo into on WordPress 2. It’s pretty bad, whatever I post actually, as I’ve mentioned before. I’m annoyed dammit.

Ok, webmaster tip. Don’t control my windows! If I want a new window, I will open one. I don’t need the link to open one for me when I am going from the homepage to the gallery page. And if it’s an external link that opens in a new window I will close the new window, open the link in a new tab and close the existing one. So it’s not doing you any good.

Also, JavaScript links. Don’t use them! It’s not big and it’s not clever. Like the MySpace keywords that need JavaScript to open so if I want to hold Ctrl down and open a load of them in new tabs in Firefox, none of them work so the only thing I can do is open them in the current window. That’s probably worse than opening new windows. Use standard links and add JavaScript to the event tags such as onClick where they belong.

Recently I was in a conversation where someone said that Google was seen as the non-evil alternative to Yahoo. I have never considered this the case. I have always thought (and thought many others shared the same view) that Yahoo is the non-evil alternative to MSN.

But that’s not what this post is about. It’s about the Yahoo UI Library. Yahoo have been doing a bit here and there for developers already working on the media RSS standard dealie.

Now they have this UI thing which is a library of JavaScript components that you can download and use including some stuff for AJAX, drag and drop elements, it all sounds pretty cool. I recommend you check it out.

They also have a Design Pattern Library thing which shows some of the uses and such.

Well my Mp3 player has given up the back button. That means I can’t go to the previous track but more importantly it means I can’t navigate around so I can’t (at least easily) get back to the root album to pick the folder / album I want to play. Send back time I think. I hope it’s still under warrenty.

Wow, didn’t see this coming. I was looking forward to a nice easy night watching Bratcamp. Need to find the repeat for that now. I was at film making society this afternoon and got back at about 7:30 or something to get a text from Michelle at 9 inviting me to The Cockpit as her flatmates were going as it’s a birthday type thing.

I managed to drag Sarann out too (who dragged flatmates Liz and John out as well :p). We ended up staying until the end at 2 am and almost missed the bus. Not that managing to get it is going to allow me to get enough sleep as I have to be in at 9 am this morning :p.

So thinking about it, blogging isn’t the greatest plan either. But then blogging has to come before sleep. Which I should probably engage in now.

I really hate computers. My router keeps dieing on my ass and Firefox is just being aweful, it takes ages to load or just stops working or won’t let me select between tags. I dunno whether it’s my computer or just buggy. Or both.

There are 17 blank text messages in a row in the sent items on my phone. Really not good.