The second series of Look Around You begins next week: Monday, BBC 2 – 10:00 pm Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2005
Brush Up Your Disco
Greg and Fiona are two of the friends who will be joining our wedding party next month. Continue reading
The Many Roles of Mr. and Mrs. Best Man
On wedding day, it’s the Best Man’s responsibility to stand before an audience of relative strangers and orate a devastatingly funny, yet compassionate speech, about what a fine upstanding member of society the Groom has continually failed to be. Continue reading
A Light Analysis of Referral Spammers
So; more tales from the “Account Terminated” swamp. I’m looking through my referrer spam from the last 24 hours and I decide to do a little whois checking. Continue reading
Referrer Spam
I’ve recently been getting “referrer spam”. What happens is this. A program, somewhere, on some zombie computer, visits my website and when it does so it wells my webserver that it was directed to the site from website-x. Continue reading
Comment Spam
In accordance with the announcements made today by Google, MSN, Yahoo et al. my website now supports the “rel=nofollow” directive Continue reading
For Hire
If you fancy having a butler for the day, or your house needs painting, or if you require a gorilla; read on! Continue reading
Power-On & Graffiti: A Solution
This morning I talked to palm technical support who’d never heard of the problem I was describing – perhaps because I mentioned the graffiti issue first rather than the power-on problem. This afternoon I put a link to the problem on the palm user forum and got an instant response. Continue reading
Palm T5 Graffiti: Problem Area Located
It appears that the problem has something to do with a corrupt entry in my address book (obviously; duh!). If I entirely delete the contents of my address book then the Grafitti problem goes away. Continue reading
Palm T5 – Irksome Graffiti
I’ve had a PalmOne Tungsten T5 for about three weeks, and I must say that in addition to being a staggering improvement over my old Palm V it is also starting to get rather irksome. Continue reading