Best description of Chris Moyles yet, courtesy of Peter Robinson in today’s Guardian:
[his] technique seems to revolve around talking over the top of records as if in the grip of some sort of Tourettes-esque chat karaoke affliction
Archive for January 2004
Tom’s Hardware Guide reviews the Dell Digital Jukebox – the dPod?
Their general conclusions – buggy and somewhat crippled; my conclusions – ugly, ugly, ugly…
From O’Reilly comes a book that was obviously written with people like me in mind – Hardware Hacking Projects For Geeks. I’ve only just realised how empty my life has been without an internet toaster…
Via the increasingly-interesting Futurismic, a rather interesting paper by Eric Gradman about social networking systems, their limitations, and what can be done to overcome them. Despite being written as a term paper, it’s actually very readable – and as an overview of what social networking sysems are and why they’re still something of an imperfect art, it’s really rather good indeed. So good, in fact, that I’ve pinged it off to BoingBoing. We’ll see what they make of it…
As a note to self, and whoever lands up here through a search engine:
If Dreamweaver MX starts throwing up errors like this:
Dreamweaver cannot determine the remote server time. The Select Newer and Synchronize commands will not be available.
The file listing in the Remote View will be blank as well.
To fix this, check the Remote Settings page in the Edit Site window – ‘the Use Passive FTP’ box should be checked so that the connection uses passive FTP. Problem disappears…
If a company that previously had permission to email me then has that permission revoked (by going through their published unsubscribe procedure), does that make subsequent mail spam according to the new legislation?
The RSS in Government site does pretty much exactly what it says on the tin – info on how RSS is being used in government around the world. Depressingly little from the UK, of course…
