File sharing is killing the music industry

Reading time: 2 mins An article in the Metro this morning covered the statement by the British Phonographic Institute (BPI) that they would consider prosecuting people sharing music files. They will be targetting the ‘heavy’ user of course, so people like you and I should be OK (I don’t think I’m actually sharing ANY music files at present… and […]

The mystery of the disappearing sidebar

Reading time: < 1 min Anyone else noticing that the sidebar leaps beneath the content? I had it for a while on Firefox, tweaked my CSS and fixed it. Or so I thought. Then someone sent an email saying they were experiencing the same thing. Hopefully a browser cache clean out will fix it but it might be an IE […]

Catch Up 22

Reading time: < 1 min Suprisingly little content can be gleaned from the last week and a bit. It consisted mainly of work. Of course if I was more happy to blog about work then I would have screeds of content available, although, ultimately, it would be more depressing than the current (lack of) content. Suffice to say that on […]

Flow increasing

Reading time: < 1 min I’m slowly remembering how to do this thing called ‘blog’. Next up, a question: Anyone know of a small (light on resources) PHP web server I can run on my home machine (XP Pro), for testing purposes only.. it’s a real pain to have to make changes to a PHP script, upload it, refresh the […]

Big Ugly Nosed..

Reading time: < 1 min To biguglynosedguy AT hotmail.com: I sent you an email. Can you please respond. I have no idea who you are, and until you answer that I won’t be adding you to my MSN Messenger list. Sorry. Yours, snowgoon2206

Finish what you are saying

Reading time: < 1 min One of the characters in the book I’m reading mentions that he is always “ahead of conversations”. He mentions that by the time someone is partway through a sentence he invariably knows what they are going to say, and the rest of the time he has to maintain an “air of interest”. This act bores […]