Archive for November, 2009

I blew it

The sidebar says that there are 25 posts in November. But 5 of those are the automated weekly posts of Twitter updates. And 2, including this one, were actually written a week into December and backdated.

Not good. Worse than last year in fact. I fail at blogging. :-(


Day 30. The end. Go on, give some money to charity, just ‘cos I didn’t shave part of my face for one month. ;-)

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The + sign is valid in the local part of an email address. Please fix the validation on your sign up form.

From now on I’m going to keep track of sites to which I’ve had to send a variation of the above message. There are only two reasons for disallowing it: technical incompetence and a failure to read the RFCs; or malice in not wanting users to identify spammers or sellers of email addresses to spammers by disallowing tagged email addresses.

Fixed

  • monitis.com

Pending

  • demand.five.tv (29/11/2009)
  • store.steampowered.com (23/05/2010)

Refusing to change

  • Facebook
  • evony.com
  • unvarnished.com
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Yesterday I was doing a YoGov survey (referral link in case anyone fancies signing up) and got a question which asked me to list as many web browsers as I could. I think I may have been near the tip of the long tail on that one – I wonder if anyone else included Amaya?


  • Internet seems a bit quiet tonight? … Where's the party? #fb #
  • Wales 12, Australia 33, full time. Oh dear. #
  • Wales 12, Australia 23 at half time. Hmmm. #
  • In light of GW serving a C&D on BGG (see http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/467096/page/1) should we be scared @SFSFW ? #
  • Today was a good day. I think I'm getting a 35% speed increase out of my @Percussion CMS. #
  • Listening to my music collection at home on my work computer via Opera Unite. Cool but what a waste of bandwidth… #
  • Don't like today. Everything is broken and I have a headache. #fb #
  • #dreamhost #fail again. :-( I think it may be time to move #
  • #Opera 10.10 is out http://www.opera.com/browser/ Now, as someone whose friends tend not to use Opera, what can I personally use Unite for? #
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Last night I bumped into someone I was at college with on Borough High Street. I knew his first name straight away, but it took me twelve hours to remember his last name. And then five minutes to find him on facebook…

The online, social, networked, web 2.0 world hasn’t completely eliminated the need for human memory


Anyone got some recommendations for hosting? (“Network Failure” was a trending topic on Twitter this morning for a good reason.)
I need to host this blog, another WordPress powered site, a MediaWiki powered site, some basic PHP pages and some static pages across 4 domains.


  • There's a 'sausage' retweeter bot?!? #
  • Mmmm. Dinner was sausages from the farmers' market. :-) Now, wash them down with a beer. #fb #
  • What's more exciting? The Doctor Who teaser on Children in Need or the Large Hadron Collider getting going? Nerd dilemma^11. #fb #
  • Which is funnier (in a very puerile way) "Chilly Willy" or "Sausage Koch"? Saw signs for both yesterday. #fb #
  • How wide spread is SVG on the WWW? I know that several mapping APIs use it for overlays in supporting browsers. Any other common uses? #
  • Saw David Cameron ice skating at Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park. #
  • Experimenting (sounds better than playing) with the Ordnance Survey map API. Some nice features. #fb #
  • Starting to feel ill on a fabulously sunny day with something cool lined up for the evening? Not good. #fb #
  • Is anyone else getting piano spam comments on their blog? WTF is up with that? #
  • I favorited a YouTube video — Raj Patel: The Value of Nothing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P03nNeYiJo&feature=autoshare_twitter #
  • Less than three hours to new Doctor Who…. #
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Day 19. Coming out a bit multi-coloured, brown, blond and some black. Too much blond really so it doesn’t show up all that well. But give some money anyway!


Raj’s new book. Out soon.