Great demo of computer controlled text using flames. It’d be a reminder while cooking – “What’s on the end of the fork again?” (src: A Welsh View).
You could lie it flat and have a game of BurnBurnRevo :)
They built a bridge over a wide stream to create the A46 / Junction 21A near us and me and Winston walk under that bridge nearly every day. The bridge may be even on top but underneath the rough concrete pathway is lower at one end than on the other. At one end I reach up and can press my fingers against the bridge. At the other end there is a fingerwidth between the top of my head and the bridge. I have stood up straight there. I have looked up and seen it. Walked along with my fingers on the top of my head and only just felt some of the surface roughness. I know that I can stand under that part of the bridge without fear of banging my head. So why do I tilt my head every time? Or if I make a conscious effort – because it does have to be a deliberate process – to stay standing tall do I tense as if ready for the impending injury? It can’t get me. I can’t get it. So despite my knowing what I do, despite me experiencing what I have I still act in a certain manner. Strange.
From the cpanel error log:
File does not exist: /home/t2/public_html/wordpress/[L]
File does not exist: /home/t2/public_html/upgrade/upgrade_es.php
File does not exist: /home/t2/public_html/index.php
All the above exist and all are present.
The .htaccess covering the /wordpress directory:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^(.+).html?$ /$1.php [r=301,nc,l]
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?tamba2\.org\.uk/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ [L]
But if that is the cause then why the root 404? I’ve got 15380 404′s being served. A variety of IP addresses. Might be a coincidence but the spammers are knocking on the door a fair amount today.
Why are the above 404 and what’s with the [L] ?
File does not exist: /home/tamba2/public_html/wordpress/style2.css
That HAS moved so someone somewhere is hotlinking again…….
Update:
The error with [L] at the end is coming from here: 83.31.115.10 (Poland) and sometimes at the rate of 4 errors a second it seems. Also here: 83.144.109.104 (Poland), 80.53.228.242 (Poland), 58.241.84.185 (Beijing), 222.185.26.246 (Jiangsu), 60.3.129.126 (Hebei – China), 219.150.158.86 (Guandong) 222.81.149.32 (Xinjiang) and many other IPs. Spammers I assume? What’s with this [L] though?
And this IP was chucking tons of spam at me 81.177.140.237 until it got placed into the .htaccess for a while.
I bought another DC08 because the one we had previously worked flawlessly for years. This one is the obvious result of all the outsourcing and costcutting that Dyson have done. It is a backward step. Why on a machine that will be used in a variety of positions around a home can they not design a hose that does not kink so fantastically easily is either because they do not possess the knowledge – but they do – or because they have taken a deliberate decision to produce a very poor alternative. Avoid this cleaner completely.
I like the patterns. This is my graph
Website that is :)
I’ve been moving things from ISP space to here, from box.net to here, from this machine up into here so I’m more likely to remember what is where. And when it’s all organised online I’ll download the lot as a backup. (That sound odd? Whatever). Anyway …. space. If you are on Site5 then you have no worries – after all for your $6.95 a month I’m sure your 10 Terabytes of disk space and 30 Yottabytes of data transfer will suffice (they oversell? No, surely not! Tell me it ain’t so!) but a realistic host will set realistic limits. But then inside those limits how much do we actually use?. As I’m asking…..I’ll show mine first. The blog + gallery + wordpress guides + various files here and there is ~130Mb. That’s not a whole lot. The gallery will cause the fastest expansion in the future too.
How big is your site?
Newsnight piece on Net neutrality / Bram Cohen / Bit torrent. In the middle of that is this:
TO HEAR BRAM COHEN INTERVIEWED DIGG THIS ARTICLE
and that’s a Digg link. Ignore the fact that at the top right of that page are two yellow download buttons. (Neither of which say what they actually DO – it’s assumed that people will know…)
If you get to Digg the author of the BBC piece is there (the digger?) and clicking his name shows 3 other BBC stories that he has dugg.
For extra audio of the interview, BBC Newsnight podcast dated 26 May at: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=136697142&s=143444
so they cannot hear it at all unless they have iTunes in which case they will know what the yellow Podcast button on the originating page was.
Why is this Adam Livingstone using the BBC as a prop to his … ‘career’ ?
I feel a complaint coming on…
I LOVED SM64 – played it loads, replayed it, got all the stars, did slides in fast times, maxed out stars. You name it, I did it. Then I got the DS version.
This game has me almost at the point of hurling the DS. The camera control is crap (it was bad at times in the original but this is worse), the use of the two screens is poor (I bet it is impossible to complete the game with just touch controls – which makes touch a gimmick), the controls are poor for anyone with a proper sized hand and the ‘cap’ thing is only there so people don’t yell “straight port” at Nintendo. It’s cool they got it into the machine – but then Sony can get big games into the PSP so it’s even – and it’s good to see it but playing it is just really annoying. Not annoying as in “Damn I know I can do that better” but “Damn why didn’t they get the controls right?”. Example: Do a high backward jump. On the N64 – easy. On the DS – not at all. Some levels of SM64 require timing and control – failing because I did it wrong is one thing. Failing because of bad controls is another. Maybe the DS is only aimed at people with small hands (it is from Japan) because right now apart from Meteos I can’t see a single reason to buy another game or even bother with a Lite. I feel blinded by the hype on this one.
Unlike the PSP – for me that delivers on all counts.
J has NEVER watched a whole football match before. Just shows what putting Robbie on a pitch can do :)
What was something I did some of has morphed into something I do a whole heap more of. What was a machine that I did a lot of a lot on has become a machine I do a lot of less on. And I need to address this. I’m working from (in) home which is nice because the kettle is not so far away, the view down the garden is nice, I can play whatever music I want and there is the added bonus of no inane drivel from people in an office environment that would annoy me. Of course the bad thing is that work never goes away. It’s here in my face all the time.
This is entirely my fault.
It’s not the fault of anyone / anything I am working with / for. The fault lies in me not dividing my time properly and in not prioritising my time better too. The fault lies in my not being able to say “I’m going to play Mame for a coupe of hours and be damned to any problems”. The fault lies in me for letting this grow to a point where I have thought this. Is it a problem? No because I still enjoy what I do. Yes because I’m mentioning it. I jokingly said to J that if I had another computer with dual monitors then I could better use my time. I think I could have convinced her too :)
I wrote yesterday (I think) that ‘I need an office’ but an office is a state of mind as much a state of furniture. When I (one day I’ll stop harking back to my days in the NHS – I’m sure I must sound like Uncle Albert) biked in to work as a nurse I would mentally organise the day/ tasks. On the way home I’d think about home. At work if you asked me about the Mental Health Act or side effects of Zyprexa I could tell you in detail. At home I’d stumble. I had a ‘workhead’ and a ‘homehead’. That was useful (or so I thought until I imploded). But now I just have the one thing. Bad? I don’t know. Bother me? Yes and no. Bother me a lot? No. What it comes down to is me giving me permission to slack off a bit. Can I do that? Yes. Could I be told to do that? No – telling wouldn’t work. Will I do that? Now that is the question…
No it’s not … the question is why am I thinking this in the first place. Balance. I need to be sure there is balance – and I can only be sure of that by examining what is going on, where time is needed, where time is wanted, where time would be liked. Sitting here now ….. I’d like more on the right of that equation but so do you. I’m no different to you. But I am different because I can change things. I can move more minutes one way by using them better on the other side. I should be working more efficiently. Smarter not harder (as I heard once while tweaking issues over the desk before running them up the flagpole to see whch way the wind would blow). This working ‘from (in the) home’ is actually a lot harder than it looks – but I really do enjoy what I do and I have already found ways to work better. Flexitime. That sounds good. Flexitime and a dual monitor setup would greatly improve things. And a better chair. I’ll talk to J … :)
