Header

Oh, and yes, I did change the header image for the day.

There’s actually a handy little bit of PHP I wrote that means it’ll check the day, and if it’s certain dates then a different header image is loaded instead of the default one. Means I don’t have to piss about with swapping images or whatever – or remembering certain days in order to get it done on time.

All very sad, very geeky, and really rather more organised than I’d expected to be. Sad but true.


An Apology

A while back, I posted about how I was getting a lot of problems on Firefox 1.5 with it being unable to find servers the first time round. It was bloody annoying, and making me head towards disliking FF1.5.

However, I was mistaken. It wasn’t Firefox’s fault at all. It turns out that the weekend before I installed 1.5, we had a contractor in the office setting up a couple of servers. In the process, he broke the network a bit, and utterly chiffed the DNS settings on the network.

For the non-geeky : DNS settings are the bit that translate www.website.com to its true address (say, 182.219.201.87) – which means you don’t need to remember a string of numbers, just www.website.com . If the DNS settings are chiffed, then you don’t get to see websites.

We’ve now fixed the problem, DNS is working OK, and Firefox finds websites first time.

So I’d like to apologise for being pissed off with a bit of software that was working just fine – it was a problem due to something else entirely.


Firefox Weirdness

I’ve no idea why, but this morning when I started up Firefox it wasn’t displaying images at all. Checking the installed “Web Developer” toolbar (a god-send in so many ways) showed that I didn’t have images disabled there, so it needed a bit more delving.

Under Options in 1.5rc2 there’s now a tab called “Content” – and in there you can choose globally whether to load images or not. Somehow that was now unticked.

So – a simple fix, but why did it happen in the firstplace? I rarely even bother to go into the Options, so something odd’s going on…


Extensions

Over the last few days I installed a couple of new (to me) FireFox extensions – View Rendered Source, ShowIP, and Show Table Inspector.

Since installing them, the performance of my installation of Firefox became utterly dire. I haven’t investigated properly (mainly due to high levels of ‘can’t be arsed’) so I haven’t ascertained exactly which one caused the problems (I suspect the combination of Rendered Source and Table Inspector proved rather process-intensive) but since removing those two, the problems have disappeared.

This has been a semi-public semi-service semi-announcement. *Grin*


Qoop revisited

Having posted some stuff over the weekend about them, I figure it’s pretty impressive that I got a response in the comments yesterday from a representative of Qoop

D4D et al:
Thanks for checking out QOOP. Right now the only option for the ordering of photos in your books is in the way they were uploaded from Flickr, so that means the way the photos were ordered in your sets, etc. You can, in Flickr, edit the order of your set to be uploaded. We realize this doesn’t provide much flexibility and additional layout options are in the works. We had to start somewhere and we opted for efficiency and convenience first. Both cover and page layouts will have greater design possibilities very soon.
We hope you’ll check us out again!
Hugh
QOOP

Pretty impressive – and, as such, only fair for me to do this and print it up on the front page rather than having to hunt through the comments for it.


Brainblock

Why is it that my brain consistently gets mixed up between Kinja and Flickr? I’m forever mixing the two up, and saying Kinja when I mean Flickr (and vice versa)

Does anyone else have this problem? Or is it just me?


IE

It’s not often I get to post this, but after a day like today all I can say is :

I really, really really hate Internet Explorer

I’ve redone a page layout four bloody times now, and it always looks fine in FireFox, and broken to shit and back in IE. And I don’t know why.

Still, looks like I know what I’ll be doing for most of the weekend…