Hurricane Katrina

August 29, 2005 at 14:11 · Filed under Uncategorised

As you can see from the above picture, Hurricane Katerina has touched ground in the state of Louisiana.
I know that right now, as dawn breaks in New Orleans and the surrounding areas, my thoughts are certainly with those who are still in the city and I’m sure I can say the same of all the people of Britain. Our thoughts are with you.

Be safe.

Google Talk #3

August 24, 2005 at 09:38 · Filed under Uncategorised

I was right!
I knew it!

Google Talk launched last night whilst I slept (evening US time).
You can now download the client from talk.google.com

I had a very very quick play around with it before work this morning, you can bring up your Gmail contacts and add them to your contact list with the greatest of ease. (One click in-fact)

Also, it has the Gmail notifier feature built-in to it, kinda like the Hotmail notification that I lost from MSN years ago (due to not using a Hotmail account to logon) which is fantastico.

Possibly goodbye MSN for me..

Google Talk #2

August 23, 2005 at 23:26 · Filed under Uncategorised

Well, I’ve been playing around with the Exodus jabber client this evening, and can confirm that I am now connected to the talk.google.com server, confirming that there *will* be a Google IM client sometime soon
Use the Exodus with the following settings;

Account details:
Jabber ID: *yourgmailusername*@talk.google.com
Password: *yourgmailpassword*
Resource: Exodus

Connection:
Host: talk.google.com
Port: 5222

Google Talk

August 23, 2005 at 21:18 · Filed under Uncategorised

Word is, Google is going to be launching it’s own IM system, possibly as early as tomorrow (Wednesday 24th).

Rumours have been floating for a few days now.
However, we now have a little bit of grounds to base that rumour upon.

See talk.google.com
It goes to a 404. Redirects to google.com/talk

Now try something else, ie. beer.google.com.
See, nothing. Page cannot be displayed (in IE). Cannot find beer.google.com (in Firefox).

Also, the subdomain talk.google.com has it’s own dedicated IP address, which surely means it has its own server.
Why would google setup a server for a page which is just a 404, page not found?

See, http://216.239.37.125

Also, it’s apparently going to be based on the Jabber backend.

When trying to connect to ‘talk.google.com’ using Jabber, this is the output;

The SSL certificate received from the server has errors.
Certificate does not match host: /C=US/ST=CA/L=Mountain View/O=Google/OU=Buzz team/CN=gmail.com/Email=buzz-team@google.com
Certificate fingerprint: A0:23:07:)
4:F1:4C:BF:3A:61:9A:A8:B1:20:8E:25:E7

- Disconnected. -

So that pretty much confirms it.
They even have a Jabber server running on the subdomain ‘talk.google.com’

Yay! Google IM!

Watch this space!

you didn’t wanna do that..

August 22, 2005 at 15:03 · Filed under Uncategorised

Found this picture of Christian Klien from the F1 race at Hungary 3 weeks ago

I don’t think he really wanted to do that Got out OK though.

$50 iBooks? Predict a riot…

August 17, 2005 at 15:32 · Filed under Uncategorised

Who’d have though that an Apple sale would require you to don riot gear in order to attend..

According to the BBC,
“More than 5,500 people queued for a chance to buy one of the 1,000 laptops and stampeded when the sale of the computers started.”

And apparently there were “people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far as to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line.”

Reminds me of the Ikea riot of earlier this year..

Chesney Fucking Hawkes man!

August 13, 2005 at 16:28 · Filed under Uncategorised

Chesney Fucking Hawkes man!
Originally uploaded by charmingman.

Stopped by the Cardiff Big Weekend last night, managed to catch Chesney Hawkes play a few tracks, was pretty fucking good if I may say so. Check out myFlickr for more pictures..

Click here for the video

Technorati tags #4

August 12, 2005 at 17:25 · Filed under Uncategorised

Well, following on from my previous 1,2,3 posts, I have finally sorted the technorati tags situation.

They work!

Plus, in getting them working the site is now 99% more efficient than it has been in many a year. Still a few things to tweak, but I’m glad to say, we’re on our way!

Charlotte not happy with the Pope!

August 12, 2005 at 10:22 · Filed under Uncategorised

Oh shit! Lil’ Churchy isn’t happy with ol’ Benedict XVI.
Time to consider your resignation then Your Holiness, if this Kerrrrrazy chick isn’t impressed then you had better watch out, she’ll probably hit you with the bottle of vodka that is permanently fixed to her hand.

But seriously, check out this new story, apparently “I’m from a Catholic family. But I don’t like this new Pope - he even wants to ban Harry Potter. He says it’s because it’s full of witchcraft and other bad stuff.”
Well Charlotte, you cannot be as devout a Catholic as the Pope then can you? You obviously do not understand that the Pope is supposed to be the the highest Catholic, the closest to God and his teachings.
If the Pope says Harry Potter is evil, according to the Catholic religion, then Harry Potter is evil. Full stop. No room for argument from 18 year old nobodies.

Also, Ms Church, just to let you know, Catholicism teaches that sex before marriage is a mortal sin. So get Hensons dick out of your mouth.

Technorati tags #3

August 9, 2005 at 09:43 · Filed under Uncategorised

Well, I didn’t get around to doing anything with the code last night, but I’ve spent 5 minutes looking at it this morning, and have managed to rid myself of 300 lines of redundant code.

Yes, that’s right. I’ve more than halved the amount of code in my index.php and the site looks, acts and feels exactly the same.

Now to start re-writing what is left of it so that I can get indexed on technorati, hopefully shouldn’t take long.