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am i still ill? Archive for August, 2005
August 8, 2005 at 13:07 · Filed under Uncategorised
I took this picture on Saturday as we passed a crash scene on Newport Road and have now found the following on the icwales website. Looks pretty bad.
I hate that junction, it really is dangerous and has been since they introduced the 2 lane > 1 lane system a few years ago. Very stupid.
From icwales;
“A woman is fighting for her life after a motorbike ploughed into her as she crossed a city road.
The 27-year-old from Cardiff is in a critical condition in hospital following the collision on Saturday evening.
She was crossing Newport Road in Cardiff at its junction with Albany Road - an area residents have described as a notorious accident blackspot - when she was hit by the bike.
The crash victim suffered multiple fractured bones as well as serious head injuries, while her friend was left with less serious injuries.
Police closed the section of the road around the crash scene - known locally as whitewashed wall - which was left strewn with debris from the motorbike, for around two hours afterwards.”
August 8, 2005 at 12:46 · Filed under Uncategorised
myFlickr has been updated, just to give you a push in the right direction 
Link to my photostream
August 8, 2005 at 11:00 · Filed under Uncategorised
Ok, so I emailed technorati’s support team with my problems in gettings indexed on their site, Neil came back to me on Friday with some suggestions and it seems that I’m not being indexed because, quite simply (these are my words), my coding is all mashed up.
I’ve known for quite some while that my site is just a huge mishmash of code, basically the same base as when the site was first created way back in 1999 but whenever something new is added, or the layout is changed, I make a few adjustments which obviously isn’t ideal.
You can tell theres a problem with your coding if, like happens now, if just one tag is missed out when making a change, or a tag is left in after taking something out, or something like that, the entire blinking site totally screws up, then I spend 30 minutes going through everything trying to find out what’s up.
If you wanna see the extent of the damage, simply right click and go to ‘View source’ and you’ll see what I mean. There are 422 lines of code in the base code (that’s minus and text from weblog posts). Absolutely atrocious.
So, a complete re-write is in order and on its way.
Obviously things are going to go wrong.
I will remember to backup, the thing that I always forget to do.
And, I’m going to spend my afternoon doing it. Even though I am at work. Finished by the time I leave here at 5? I doubt it.
Finished by midnight? I doubt it still. But hopefully, by sometime this week, I will have a fully functioning website that does all the things that everybody else in this great blogosphere can do.
Wish me luck!
August 8, 2005 at 09:04 · Filed under Uncategorised
From cableforum this morning,
ntl to make 10mb broadband speed as standard;
“ntl has confirmed its strategy for the delivery of next generation cable broadband services. A press release informs us, the aim is to make 10Mb its standard broadband access speed. Broadband customers will be able to choose a 10Mb service with a usage allowance to match their requirements. ntl will also offer a choice of broadband services with unlimited usage.”
Do ntl ever stop increasing speeds?
There was a time when I cursed ntl, in the dialup days.
And in the broadband days too to a certain extent, because they always seemed to lag behind all other providers, especially the adsl providers. ntl always seemed to be last to introduce new features that everyone else already had, last to increase speeds to the levels everyone else already had.
But in the last 12 months they have done a complete 360° turn and now appear to be almost leading the way, bar a few of course (bulldog & UKOnline spring to mind, with their 8mb upgrades)
10mb though, jebus. It will be welcomed by me though. I’m a total bandwith junkie. I thought 1mb was enough, but now I have 3mb (maxing at approx 350kb/s) and even that is sometimes frustratingly slow (although is running at full speed, I just need things faster!)
August 4, 2005 at 09:15 · Filed under Uncategorised
It’s Laura’s 19th today, this is just a quick post before we go off into town to shop all day then we’ll be at Chiquito in Cardiff tonight for dinner, mmm..tasty!
August 2, 2005 at 13:08 · Filed under Uncategorised
I implore everybody to buy a copy of the South Wales Echo today, once again they have published one of my rants on their letters page, check out page 23.
I wrote the letter in response to an article which is published here, Berman accused of witch hunt
“With regard to the article ?Berman accused of witch hunt ? Echo July 28th?, I think that Coun. Michael should look up the word hypocrisy and assure himself that he understands the meaning before criticising Coun. Berman, clearly Coun. Michael clearly does not understand the point that Coun. Berman is trying to convey to him and the rest of the council as well as the public. If a councillor or any person condemns something which they themselves have, or have tried to do in the past, present or the future, then they are a hypocrite. There is no witch hunt, just Coun. Berman bringing the facts of Counc. Cowan’s hypocrisy to our attention.”
August 1, 2005 at 15:57 · Filed under Uncategorised
Who would have guessed MS would come out with a service that is almost identical to google maps? Eh? Me for one..and now they have.
Microsoft virtualearth is almost exactly the same type of thing as the google maps satellite function, even in the way that it uses the same way to navigate it, ie. using the keyboard arrow keys and the +/- buttons to zoom in and out etc.
Though, it doesn’t load the pictures as quickly as Google maps, I think they may possibly be of higher quality in most areas, I can’t really tell. Hmm.
They also don’t yet have any satellite pictures of the UK, seems to only be the USA, but, that’s how G Maps started out too, they have only recently added other countries.
Update, 19:42:
Now hang on just a cotton picking minute.
I thought this was a virtual earth?
Well, is the entire world blank and white?
Microsoft seem to think so. The whole of their “Virtualearth” is black and white, no colour whatsoever. Unless you count the overlayed ‘green’ where there is a park.
Plus, the pictures must be very old, as you can clearly see in this location, JFK Aiport, NY, there is a Concorde at the terminal. And another here. Concorde went out of service in 2002.
I knew I’d find something that would suck about it and thus once again reiterate exactly why Google are the best.
Microsoft Virtualearth
August 1, 2005 at 01:22 · Filed under Uncategorised
This guy makes me sick, he really does.
I saw a TV programme a few months ago, he is a radical American christian with very anti-gay views. He and his followers (approx 40 Southern American hicks) protest at the funerals of gay men (whether killed as a result of their sexuality or not) with placards sporting slogans like “God hates fags”, “Burn in hell fag” and other fucked up shit like that.
Well. He now has gone too far.
His website, godhatesfags.com, has posted a page which is one too far, definitely.
Apparently. We are to “Thank God for the bombing of London’s subway”
This view, which goes on to say “wherein dozens were killed and hundreds seriously injured. Wish it was many more”. was created because apparently England is the “Island of the Sodomite Damned”. Sick. Absolutely sick. Why has nobody risen up against this evil, hatefilled man yet?
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