Month: January 2002

Yesterday I wondered about the level of traffic on the spam site. Today I find they have posted them 🙂
Last Month: | 59,985 server hits | 7,141 Pages served
Last 10 days: | 1,091,177 server hits | 305,942 Pages served

There is some debate going on at the moment about the statue of three firefighters to be located at Ground Zero in NYC. The statue is based on a picture taken at the time, but with a minor change. Instead of the statue being of the picture as is, there will be one white, one black and one Hispanic firefighter. While I have to agree and admire the sentiment behind it, this just seems pretty wrong to me. Why can’t the statue be based on the three men who were in the picture the statue is of?

Few more minor changes on the site, the links in new windows, timestamps as permalinks, archives all fine, so a full .1 change in the version number…sad huh?

Word of the day: discretion
t noun [MASS NOUN] 1 the quality of behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid causing offence or revealing private information: she knew she could rely on his discretion | I’ll be the soul of discretion.
2 the freedom to decide what should be done in a particular situation: it is up to local authorities to use their discretion in setting the charges | honorary fellowships may be awarded at the discretion of the council.
— PHRASES discretion is the better part of valour | proverb: it’s better to avoid a dangerous situation than to confront it.
—ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘discernment’): via Old French from Latin discretio(n-) ‘separation’ (in late Latin ‘discernment’), from discernere

The internet never ceases to amaze me. I did’nt blog this but I saw this clock a few days ago, sent the link to a couple of people in the office tho. This and the spam story (see below) are hot topics in most of the blogs I’ve seen today. All it takes is one person and one person to link to that one person and pretty soon thousands of people have seen it. I would really love to know what the level of traffic on the spam story site has shot up to recently. Someone finds it, it goes into MetaFilter and traffic shoots up, one hundred people link after reading from MetaFilter and it goes on and on and on.

Anyways the internet constantly amazes me 🙂

archives almost sorted. But for reasons to become clearer alot further down the line I want to make this Netscape compatable, I know my dropdowns are not. I believe I would rather have them working in NS so I may have to start again.

word of the day: cicatrix (also cicatrice )
t noun (PL. cicatrices ) the scar of a healed wound.
—DERIVATIVES
cicatricial adjective.
—ORIGIN late Middle English (as cicatrice): from Latin cicatrix or Old French cicatrice.

Last wednesday I posted a quick link to a Spam story I found on Metafilter. It’s now getting better and better. There is new content daily and it’s good for a laugh. The guy involved really does seem to be a moron but he gets good marks for humour content alone. It’s worth having a quick goole for his name, if anyone who ever really thinks about hiring him does a search well they would I suspect end up thinking again.

Why is it that if I want to register a .ie domain name I have to pay just under 70 Euros and I can only register the domain for a period of 1 year then I have to renew it? I would not mind getting one, but the pricing does seem to be kinda shit

cute || class

“So there is no confusion, this is a war. There will be casualties. Emotion plays no role in this. I know the enemy, and it is mouse.”

Looks like the Elektra casting may still be underway which is not in intself a bad thing, but Jolene Balcock from Enterprise is in the running. I’m not so sure she can do it…it would be interesting to see her doing something non-Vulcan but Elektra?

Microsoft’s proposal to give alot of software and pc’s to some schools has been rejected by a US court as it would give them a bigger foothold in the schools area. Nice arugement from Apple there 🙂

It’s the little things in the world that can give the most back. Sometimes a simple e-mail can make all the difference in the world to anything. I’m not sure if this is a LotR quote badly paraphrased or from something else, but even one person can change the course of the world. Weblogs rock 🙂
—
I used to think / There is no future left at all/ I used to think

Open up, begin again / Let’s go down the waterfall / Think about the good times
Never look back / Never look back/ What would I do?/ What would I do?/ If I did not have you.

The ever amazing Radiohead’s “I Might be Wrong”.

Lord of the Rings in one page

Google zeitgeist II

Word of the day: peer
t noun a person of the same age, status, or ability as another specified person: he has incurred much criticism from his academic peers.
t verb archaic make or become equal with or of the same rank.
—ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French peer, from Latin par ‘equal’

Quite an interesting read, the history of weblogs by Rebecca Blood.

I had to laugh. I was having a look at Blogger Code earlier today, I can’t remember where I saw the link but I ended up there. (Side note unless they are really cool, I hate quiz things like that). I had a brief look though and the last question made me laugh

    Can anyone type your name into Google and find your blog? Would you just die (or be fired) if your boss read your blog? Does you mom leave comments on your site?

Why is this funny? well my boss did actually find the site, and he was one of the first people that I know of whom I had not told that did find it. Anyways it made me laugh, he nearly got e-mailed the link, but I figure he can just read about it here in the morning. 😉 Some people did know about it, I had told them (duh) not many in fact (in fact 1) as it wasn’t something I particularly wanted to be available to the office, I had been down that route before much earlier in the year, way back (thankfully long way) in version 1.0 (Feb of ’01) and well lets just say it was not a good thing. What’s changed, other than the layout that is….? Well, work has changed allot and is now a much better place to be, obviously those changes have had an affect on me aswell.

Side note: why in the hell is ‘as well’ two words? Damnit why not just ‘aswell’? | Note to the side of the side note ctrl + alt+ del wonderful tool, shame there is a need for it.

And on the side of that I met a friend for coffee the other night and we were talking about computers for some reason and she mentioned ctrl+alt+del. I remember the first time I ever heard of this, and yes to my eternal shame it was on a helpline and from Gateway 2000. About 5 years ago my parents bought a pc for the family and I set it up and got everything installed. I don’t remember what the problem was but I rang tech support sometime and the short story was I had to reinstall windows (95). Anyways during the call the pc locked up and the tech told me to hold control and alt and press delete once. Since then I have never looked back, but it has come back to haunt me so many times during my own stint in tech support. The line “hold control and alt (A-L-T) and press the delete key once. It was always easy to tell when the pressed it twice quickly by accident (and man did that happen alot) but there were times when someone had the same reaction I did and hopefully they learnt well from me. Those were really fun days, looking back of course. Ah nostalgia!

Now sitting out my couch delighted to find out that the Beeb are showing “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and the following two movies over the next next couple of Thursdays. It’s been quite a long time since I’ve seen this (or any of the others) so I’m going to spend the next couple of hours enjoying this 🙂

I suspect I will soon be using alot of links from Metafilter, a quite funny link from a few moments ago, Use this handy guide to discern differences between Terrorists and the U.S. Government: is likely to cause some reactions….

Premium Blogger. At last it arrives. Details to be announced later this afternoon but it seems to be $30 a year with alot of features to come under it shortly. Will we see it on The End of Free also?

and ok I’m slow….find out why after lunch….and editing after lunch. I only really noticed MetaFilter yesterday. So I’m slow, but it’s gonna be checked out fairly often 🙂

Don’t you love being blindsided *first* thing in the morning?

The spam link I blogged last night came to me from Metafilter, it’s also went on to Slashdot last night and today most of the office has read it and had a really good laugh out of it. So tempted to drop him a mail and say hi 😉

The im: x and yare an item i gather “shagging” was how it was put
When is a a secret not a secret? When you tell anyone else. I wonder who said that originally. Names have been deleted to protect the guilty, there are no innocents.

I think this photo of Mikhail Gorbachev in Dublin pretty much speaks for itself.

Blogger is undergoing some big work again today, publishing is sketchy. Ev hopes to have the problems sorted today and an announcement.

Word of the day: apathy
t noun [MASS NOUN] lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern: widespread apathy among students.
—ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from French apathie, via Latin from Greek apatheia, from apathes ‘without feeling’, from a– ‘without’ + pathos ‘suffering’.

I need to start using fullstops, I don’t seem to be in the habit of using them…

A story of Spam.