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Re: Moopost

Tom — Sun, 21 May 2006 16:04:45 -0000

Nice! Worked first time on my K2 based theme - a suggestion - how about different images for "closed" and "expanded" posts for the next version?

Re: AboutUs.org - Is it Ethical? » Ajay - On the Road called Life

Tom — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:09:45 -0000

My biggest concern is that even if I edit away my copyrighted content, it's still there in the History section.

AboutUs should be "opt in" (in the same way that many sites like Technorati won't index your site unless you "ping" them) and should not editable by all and sundry. Plus it needs to be possible to purge your history, so that copyrighted material is actually removed.

Re: The Song from the end of Portal Game

Tom — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:51:43 -0000

The song is called "Still Alive" by Jonathan Coulton, I beleive it's on the Orange Box soundtrack (and as such should be available to download from iTunes or Amazon...)

The Cake Is A Lie

Re: Stop writing AboutUs.org

Tom — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:02:59 -0000

I absolutely agree with you, I didn't come off too badly, but I've seen entries on AboutUs.Org which have individual bloggers home addresses and telephone numbers.

Also, as the site keeps a history of changes, it's impossible to remove information completely. It's always still in the history.

Re: Stop AboutUs.org from scraping your blog

Tom — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:35:25 -0000

Well, the morning brings a change to the "concerns" page, a promise of manual deletion (once you prove you own the domain) - shame this "proof" isn't required to create and edit a record really...

He still hasn't explained the purpose of the site, or what "valuable service" it's providing...

Re: Hey Pirillo! What’s an asshat?

Tom — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:04:02 -0000

No problem at all - if we're lucky we might start seeing some more coverage of aboutus.org, and some awareness spreading to those webmasters who don't know their details are on there!

Re: HP can’t but Canon can!

Tom — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:32:02 -0000

A year after this post and I find myself fighting at LaserJet 1600 myself. I wish I'd known before... won't share on a network with restarting the print spooler every few minutes, and to top it all, HP's website is down "Service Unavailable" when I try to download a driver...

Re: HP can’t but Canon can!

Tom — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:31:01 -0000

Yeah, it seems better this morning, having downloaded the new drivers and firmware things seem a bit better...

Re: Gmail misses the obvious – multiple signatures

Tom — Wed, 23 May 2007 09:57:11 -0000

Agree with you there - this is probably the biggest thing missing from G-Mail now - I've been using it with multiple email addresses for a while (by forwarding directly from my domain rather than POP3 pickup) - it'll correctly figure out which address the mail came through (so the reply gets the correct "from" address) so why can't they handle multiple signatures automatically too?

Re: I’m back! My exile is over.

Tom — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:02:03 -0000

Finding a webhost with decent a decent support department is difficult, as any experiences you read about are generally, like yours, when things have been less than ideal.

I've had wildly varying experiences, however the one time I was in a similar situation (one of my sites had been compromised as had a spammer-script installed on it) the host at the time (1and1.co.uk) sent me an email alerting me to the exceptional load being produced by a script on the site, and the email included the filename of the scripts involved (which of course, turned out to be the spam-generator scripts) - no doubt in your situation something similar would have helped you too.

They then "disabled" the offending script (I think by removing it's execute permissions) and asked me to investigate. Of course, I didn't need to re-enable the script!

I hope you do find a decent webhost with a good support dept.

Re: How would you organize the Gmail menu?

Tom — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:23:40 -0000

Well, if they can't make the top menu "personalisable" for your Google ID, I'd have to agree with you, Reader should be on the top bar. Personally, I'd swap it with Photos - on the basis that I want to access Gmail, Reader and Docuemnts several times a day, but I tend to only access Photos (although in reality I use Flickr) when I've got a set of photos to upload.

Re: Spouse 2.0 Day – will you attend?

Tom — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:54:51 -0000

Oh dear.

Much as there is value in showing appreciation for your "better half" - why oh why do we need another day when people are going to write endlessly long and romantic blog posts about it. What's wrong with limiting this kind of behaviour to already established "Singles Awareness Day" on Feb 14th?

I suppose at least if every post is correctly tagged, it ought to be possible to filter them all out...

Me, Single - Yes, Bitter - Yes, and I don't need reminding of what I'm missing as a result.

(P.S. The openID seems broken - I can't put a website in the box which doesn't have an OpenID server on it)

Re: Spouse 2.0 Day – will you attend?

Tom — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:13:42 -0000

As I said, there is value in showing appreciation for your partner - but there's no need to plaster the internet with "Spouse 2.0" posts on the day in question. Show your appreciation your way. If she deserves more than one day of recognition (and I have no doubt that is the case - if I were lucky enough to have someone, I wouldn't limit my appreciation to just Feb 14th!) why not show your spouse that this is about her and not just a reason for another post on a blog.

Re: Spouse 2.0 Day – will you attend?

Tom — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:29:33 -0000

"Being grumpy about it" is the only way I can get in on the fun - my "rant" post on my blog is going to spread the word too, and if I had someone (and I was part of a Web 2.0 startup) I'd proably be enthusiastic about it too ;-)

Re: Disappearing tracks

Tom — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:05:40 -0000

That does sometimes happen to me - if I've not listened to any music for a couple of days...

Re: HELLO, WHAT? NO! I’M ON THE PHONE!

Tom — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:39:57 -0000

Well, I suspect certain airlines (say, those who surcharge you for this little extras like Luggage and Checking In) will find a way to charge extra for sitting in the quiet area before they bother installing the systems to allow the calls to be made...

Re: Chrome beat Opera – IE is next!! No really, it’s true I tells ya!

Tom — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:11:09 -0000

I can see myself sticking with Chrome on my office PC (which is so badly underpowered that the performance difference between Chrome and IE/Firefox is very significant) - but once I've gotten to the point where I'm missing the extensions of Firefox I'll be going right back (at least at home)

I'll be keeping an eye on it though - although on my home PC, the performance differences are not significant, the multi-process approach has benefits... but how long before Firefox and IE catch up on that one?