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.
Movember Day 30 – me on the left, Moonie on the right, John was hiding (we think he shaved off his pantomime villain mo early and that’s why he didn’t come into work…)
Day 30. The end. Go on, give some money to charity, just ‘cos I didn’t shave part of my face for one month.
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.
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?
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.
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!