Archive for March, 2007
ICANN Rejects 30
ICANN, the mysterious folk behind the internet thingy, have met and rejected the establishment of the .xxx top level domain. It's an absolute shame from the point of view of easy control of websites if these TLD domain names were only to be issued to adult sites. But even more of a shame is that they are missing the sublime chance for future Rocky movies like Rocky.XXX (that is, of course, Rocky 30 in Roman numerals ;-) ) More interesting the debate that this rejection has sparked off again about ICANN needing content neutral decision-making processes for the establishment of TLD addresses. [...]
Awakened
I've been quiet for about a week now: What have I been doing? Well as I mentioned previously I'm on a 2 week break from work so after a week of trying I finally managed to switch off this week. I've built my new garden fence (I'm sure you'll all be happy to hear that - photos to follow :) ), I've been heading to the gym quite a bit trying to improve my running distance in line with my ambitions and a few other odd jobs and general relaxation. However, I have still been doing my daily reading but only this morning did I read a post from Damien Mulley that I just had to reference. It's an [...]
links for 2007-03-23
Alaska Department of Revenue vaporizes $38 billion account - Engadget Imagine deleting an account worth $38 billion - what an adrenalin rush! (tags: alaska revenue delete account 38 billion)
Having a bad day?
Thanks to Gary G for this link. The Alaska department of revenue seemingly had a bit of a nervous time recently when somebody accidentally deleted details of an account worth approximately $38 billion. Not only that but they also managed to mess up the back-up tapes. Me thinks somebody was a little worried at this stage. Luckily 300 boxes of paperwork came to the rescue and after successful digitisation everything is back to normal. It's like deleting an e-mail that you didn't want to only 38 billion times worse. source: Engadget
Caption
Just came up with another caption for Frank's competition.
links for 2007-03-22
Ten things you can do keep an old computer useful « Motho ke motho ka botho Keep those old computers clock-ticking over! (tags: old machine computer alive useful still)
Preserving the Techno-past
Everyone interested in computing has at least one old computer lying around. We've either upgraded and not thrown out the old unit (you'll never know it it will come in handy) or like me you just can't resist having multiple computers in your home. Too often it is true that the old machines are never used for one reason or another but that doesn't mean that they are useless. Here's a top ten to help you get the best from your old kit. source: Motho ke motho ka botho
ImmovableType
Normally I'm not one to get frustrated with MovableType (my blogging software) but today I'm a little upset that it's not doing what I would like it to. I decided to retro-fit some new categories to my blog and stumbled upon the complete absence of a batch editor of any value at all. The current batch editor only allows changing of a single category and not assignment of multiple categories so you have to go through each entry in turn - painful! They allowed batch editing of tags but not categories, I wonder why? Suggestion to MT to write/include this feature. Anyway finished off what I [...]
links for 2007-03-20
openeID OpenID to be combined with eID - an accepted and proven, secure identity in Europe. I wonder if people will be forced to be themselves in time to come? (tags: openid eid europe identity authentication web secure)
Another Facelift!
It's only a wet day (well a snowy one anyway) since I changed the look of my blog template. Doing that however, made the other residue on my site look like a heap of crap. So, I then changed the rest of the site pages to something more pleasing. I then decided that having the site and the blog maintained in different styles wasn't a good idea for those passing on through. So here we are, the blog has been upgraded again to look like the rest of the site. In addition to re-re-sprucing the blog template I've added a couple of little gizmos (nod of the head to scriptaculous for the javascript [...]
