Archive for December, 2005

Bill Gates, his wife Melinda and Bono from U2 have been named Time’s Persons of the Year. Pop Sugar have the cover image here. They claim it’s because of the work they did to help prevent AIDS but we all know it’s really because Time want to join Lord Gates before his clone army rises up and takes control of this world. Your either with us or against us.

My DVD arrived! I ordered Invasion of the Body Snatchers a little over a week ago (a week yesterday I think) but I had to get it imported from America as it was never released on region 2.

I was reading up on Google Blog Search after I found that Movie Steak and the other blogs I launched recently were already showing up in the results and it mentioned that it could grab pretty much any blog that pinged an updates service.

So, I thought to myself, as I often do, perhaps xmeltrut.com should be pinging these updates services. I’m not sure how successful this is going to be as there are time limits and it seems to be IP based even though I have loads of sites so I’m not really sure how it works, but anyway, it’s worth a try.

Actually, some to think of it, it’s probably domain based so it might be worth trying to put some kind of updating thing on each site, as messy as that would be. I might just submit them all manually and see if that works first.

I hate computers. I hate computers so much.

I was looking for what websites I should devote some time to today as I have a few new websites that I am toying with but I decided the best thing I could do would be to see what needs work at the moment. So I headed off to Web Host Manager to see what sites I had and noticed there are a few projects I have that never really got launched.

Therefore I think I’m going to be spending some time finishing the projects and sites I have half up and have domains for etc but never really did anything. I want to get something up even it it wasn’t what it was originally going to be. I throw that comment in because I can’t be bothered to do what I was going to do with Audio Senate but I want to get something up ;).

The first site I’ve sorted is FanSites.ws which is going to offer free fansite hosting and also has a fansite directory which could probably use some updating now. I’ll see what other projects I have to do later.

When I started my blog back on Nerd Federation, I wanted it to be a place where people having technical problems could search through Google or whatever and the blog would come up as I’d had the same problems. In that spirit, I have this post about problems with my laptop.

I had recently been having the problem where my laptop could not connect to the internet but it could connect to both the routers on my network. Usually if I restarted it, it would start working again but not always.

Then I remembered, that my wireless router was currently cloning the mac address of my laptop (I set this up for when I was at uni). The way my network works is I have my two computers running to my wireless router which is then cabled to my second router which connects some more computers and that then runs to my modem.

Anyway so yeah, I just turned off the mac cloning and I’m able to connect to the internet again. I’m hoping that was the problem although I’m not entirely sure. Time will tell I guess.

I opened up Celeb Linkage in Internet Explorer to find it destroyed as the images were displaying at full size which I didn’t get. I didn’t actually understand how the thumbnails worked as they didn’t have anything in to set a size and the URL was to the full size image and there was no CSS.

End result is, it was the full size image but using some clever CSS, the container the posts were in kept the images small in Firefox. But it didn’t work in Internet Explorer. End result is that when you upload an image to WordPress and ask it to create a thumbnail it will but the code it will give you is for including the full size image. If you want to display the thumbnail you have to change the URL of the image.

I’ve just installed a new plugin to my blog (indeed the first plugin I’ve ever used with WordPress :P) called Akismet. It’s a spam thing that uses a big central server that checks the spam in basically the same way that Cloudmark’s SpamNet works. I use that for my emails and it is pretty good.

I get quite a bit of spam on this blog so hopefully it should work out pretty well.

I’ve just been running a search on various domain names including moviedonuts.com, moviepopcorn.com and moviepizza.com. They are all taken by domain quatters. Who would visit MoviePizza.com?!? It makes no sense they would register it. I mean, ok, I was looking for it but that’s because I am setting up a website, who would just type it in and even if a handful of people did would that cover the cost of registering it in adverting revenues? I very highly doubt it.

I mean, where do they come up with the idea to get names like that? I can understand if someone does it about one topic but these companies seem to cover pretty much every topic and still have all these random combinations of names.

Surround sound is scary! I was just cleaning my keyboard and I must have pressed one of the multimedia buttons or something as my paused MP3 player flicked to a new song (the song in question was Heather Nova – Island) which starts off with this haunting moaning type thing.

Not realising what I had done however it was like, where is that coming from? I was trying to listen to my computers as I had both on as usual but it was coming from all around me so I couldn’t work it out :P.