I was wonder today about how many web pages I actually had. I thought search engines might be a good idea. Although I actually have more than they index it would at least be some kind of helpful pointer. I searched Google, Yahoo and MSN for "Worfolk Online" which I used as the majority of my pages have a copyright notice saying this at the bottom.
The results of the test won’t be totally accurate for several reasons though. Firstly not all of my sites say that at the bottom and secondly because search engines are not going to index all the pages on a site due to the sheer volume. As for results relevance MSN storms it again with the most relevant links followed by Yahoo and Google coming in a lowly third.
MSN are really kicking ass with this relevance thing. The top result was Worfolk Online as it should be. This was followed by Worfolk Corp, Worfolk News, Worfolk Creative, Worfolk Music and Worfolk Pictures. Yahoo had a similar line up – Worfolk Online, AdTech (Worfolk Online ad technology), Worfolk Corp and Worfolk Pictures and Worfolk Music being lower down.
Google’s lineup consisted of Worfolk Corp, The Gurkin, Evil Genius Magazine, the list goes on. Worfolk Pictures was on page 2, Worfolk Music on page 3 and Worfolk Creative on page 4. The actual Worfolk Online site was nowhere to be found!
Anyway results of the test. MSN found a total of 6 thousand results, Google managed 27 thousand and Yahoo indexed the most with 47 thousand. I don’t think the Yahoo figure is that far off the actual figure. Well it probably is but it’s getting there ;).
In case you haven’t heard, MG Rover has collapsed with no hope of rescue. Now everyone is really annoyed. People want the government to bail it out. No! Face facts it’s a failed company. What good is it going to be if it gets bailed out? It’s clearly not going to work as a business; even BMW couldn’t make it work.
It’s being called a tragedy. I don’t think so. It’s not a sudden shock (due to the company’s history); it’s not a big scam like Enron. It’s just that the business couldn’t make any money and so it eventually went out of business. It has happened before – the government bailed it out previously before it took on the name Rover.
Also people have been attacking the Phoenix Group led by John Towers that took on the company after BMW decided to dump it. One person said he was "like the devil really." Erm? So yeah you would have liked to loose your job when BMW decided to dump the company right? Because that is what it sounds like to me.
Maybe the directors did take money out of the company – isn’t it there company to take the money out of anyway? But that’s beside the point, the company has failed, it would have done eventually anyway as only a few car manufacturers can survive so just let it drop, it’s over.
I just need to squeeze a post out really, it has been a while. I’ve just spent the last hour or so listening to the audio commentary for the Blair Witch Project. I was going to watch it months ago, but you know, I didn’t. We are studying it in media now though so I thought I might as well.
It was fairly entertaining as there were five of them the two writers / directors and three producers. I love Blair Witch for several reasons. First of all as Dawson Leery put it, Hollywood got bulldozed by a group of friends with a camcorder. Encouraging for would be film makers such as myself.
What is cool is how it all got made though. They basically handed the three actors some cameras, supplies, etc then just sent them off into the woods for a week. They dropped supplies and stuff but for the most part they were on their own. Which is what gave all the emotional shots and stuff such reality.
Actually, there is one point I didn’t mention – I launched a
new webmasters forum along with Ceon recently which you want to check out (not
that I am telling you what you want to do or anything but you do want to 😉 –
it’s called Maze Dev.
You know I keep getting told everyone makes mistakes when they first learn to drive. But I always thought a mistake was like getting in the wrong lane or forgetting to signal. What I didn’t consider was rolling it into a lamp post and putting a giant crack down the middle of the bumper.
As you can probably guess that is pretty much what happened. Forgetting the estate car is slightly bigger than the Nissan Micra I learned to drive in, I tried to 3 point turn it and got the car adjacent to the road and with the front end smashed into a lamp post. I could really use one of those swallowing up holes right now.
Luckily I got all my work done earlier so I can hold a late night Dawson’s Creek marathon and hopefully by the end of it I will be too tired to care. I actually started getting back into DC over the weekend. Went through the key episodes of the first series and started on the second.
Well I say key episodes; I really mean just random ones that are cool. Strangely enough I missed episode 108, Detention because I just wasn’t in the mood for some reason. It’s usually one of my favorite episodes. Anyway enough said.
This some footage I originally shot to put together on a DVD but this late after Red Nose day (I didn’t have time despite my efforts to get it ready on the day) there seems little point. The footage, which is of JT’s effort towards the day in the form of a sponsered cyclathon (which raised quite a bit of money I beleive), is too valuable to go to waste so I thought I would share it with you lot.
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As it happens this is the first video blog of 2005.
Ok I have seen people talking about wanting to get The Simpsons cancelled. I have even seen a petition – what is that about!?! The Simpsons rules! More importantly is a legend and I have three reasons why it shouldn’t be cancelled. You may not agree with, that’s fine but just know that you are wrong ;).
First of all, even, let’s say that, The Simpsons is dumbing down. That isn’t going to be fixed by Fox pulling the plug. You want to express this, write in to Fox or Matt Groening and tell them! Don’t just say I want the show cancelled, do something about the problem.
Secondly, I have heard a lot of complaints about the shows being edited, punch lines being cut out, etc – that is a problem for you in the US with your advert breaks every five minutes. It isn’t a problem for us in the rest of the world, don’t lumber your problems on us.
Finally, The Simpsons is a legend. It’s part of our culture. I mean we hold a celebrity polls and fictional characters are beating real people. When socialising I use nothing but a string of Simpsons, Futurama and Family Guy quotes. It’s the only show I know of that gets 4-5 prime time slots per night! Are you willing to let that fade into the past?
Well finally the insurance started on my car. Well my parents but meh. The important thing is that I can finally drive it now which I have been doing for most the day. It is hideously big but once I got used it to it seemed easy enough. That said I haven’t actually tried to park it yet other than driving into the drive.
So far no real problems, kind of. None that I plan to admit to on the open forum of the internet anyway ;). There are differences between the Ford Mondeo estate and the Nissan Micra I learned to drive in though (size is too obvious to be listed). First of all the view from the rear mirror is smaller as you see the car frame due to it being so far back.
Second the engine is much more powerful. I am hardly pressing the accelerator in 3rd gear and I am struggling to keep to the 30 miles per hour speed limit. It is going to take some time for me to get used to the power of the car.
Overall though I am actually enjoying driving now. I realize this is just a novelty that will soon ware off but learning to drive pretty much sucked. Now it is actually good to drive. If I experienced emotions I would even call it fun.
Today I am a man of few words…
Sorry, this image is no longer available, but for reference it was a photo of my driving test pass certificate.
You know, you would think this would be the best news I would have had all day. But The Bourne Identity arrived on DVD so I’m torn now ;).
I am not sure how I got on the subject, but the idea came
into my head that I should purchase the pro version of Trillian, the instant
messenger that I use. It is far better than any of the software that you losers
use as I can connect to all my accounts at once. MSN, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, the list
goes on. Actually that is pretty much it but it also supports IRC.
Anyway at $25 for the software and a years worth of support
and upgrades it would take considerable skill to go wrong. Plus on top of that,
Trillian 3 is now out sporting a whole new load of features so I am thinking
that it is going to be worth my money once I get it installed.
One of the most notable features is the video options. It supports both audio and video conversations, I presume just to people with MSN and Yahoo as these are the only ones I know support it. But the options available in it rock – you can have side by side video, picture in picture, pause and rewind video it looks awesome.
Still the real test will come when I get everything installed and setup. I will probably install some plugins to play around with them and maybe the odd skin although usually I just prefer the default. Anyway I will post more when I’ve played around with it.
I am currently flicking though issue 109 of the SitePoint Tech Times newsletter that arrived in my inbox in the early hours of this morning. The first feature in this issue was details leaked about what features Microsoft‘s Internet Explorer 7 browser will feature. Most importantly, tabs. Well, well, looks who has come crawling back :D.
You can try and ignore the other browsers if you wish but it won’t get anywhere. That said, I didn’t expect Microsoft to make the move. I mean sure all the other browsers are doing it and tabs are good. But Microsoft has never been one to follow others. Wait what I am I saying, this software runs on an operating system that basically cloned Mac’s graphical interface. Ok this is turning into Microsoft bashing, time to get back on my thoughts about the browser.
The thing is, no tabs set Internet Explorer apart from other browsers, it made it different. I don’t want yet another identical browser. I would prefer it if they spent the time making the browser standards compliant, I’m tired of having to write cross browser compatible sites – if the software creators would get their act together I wouldn’t have to.
An RSS reader is also welcome. Mozilla doesn’t even have one (well actually I don’t know about the full Mozilla suite but Firefox doesn’t). I had to go install Sage to read my RSS in Firefox. It does display RSS feeds pretty well though; I can’t remember how Internet Explorer deals with them. Hopefully though IE7 will be more standards compliant, there have been some questions raised over CSS2 support.