CSS Reboot
Posted: Sat 30 April, 2005 Filed under: D4D™, Geeky Leave a comment »Like Pix, I’ve been thinking of getting involved in the CSS Reboot , which basically involves redesigning the entire site to a CSS implementation.
Then I thought “But I’ve got sod all time anyway, I redid a lot of this to CSS back at the end of ’04, and I haven’t completed changing the old pages here yet, let alone going through and re-doing it all again.”
So I’m afraid that come May 1st there won’t be a pretty new redesign here on d4d. I just ran out of time/ inclination/ inspiration.
Sorry about that.
Bandwidth – Yet again
Posted: Mon 25 April, 2005 Filed under: D4D™, Geeky 1 Comment »Well, reducing the number of posts on the front page and so on really didn’t work. So I’ve gone for the next part of the plan.
One of my huge referrers every day is a Google images search for a link I did back in April 2003. For some reason I get about 15 referrers per day . So I’ve checked into it, and removed the link through Google.
With luck that should kick in today, and my bandwidth for May won’t be quite as horrific as it has been for April.
Flickr Pro
Posted: Wed 20 April, 2005 Filed under: Geeky, Photography 1 Comment »Well, after the thoughts a while back about whether I should try Flickr out for a while, a very nice person has given me one of the Flickr Pro accounts that he was offered yesterday.
So I’ve still no idea what I’m going to do with the Flickr account, but it’s given me some impetus to do something with it, anyway.
In the meantime, Photobox are offering a sale on 7×5″ prints for 10p each, so I think I’ll be getting some more stuff done by them.
Bandwidth Arse
Posted: Wed 20 April, 2005 Filed under: D4D™, Geeky 2 Comments »Fucketty Bugger.
I thought a while back that I’d reduced the number of posts on the front page, in a bid to chop down the bandwidth a bit. Well, fucking oops, I’d forgotten that I’d installed the Custom Posts Per Page plug-in, which meant it was over-riding the change I’d made in the options. Arsenuggets.
Anyway, I’ve changed that now – hopefully I’ll see an effect on next month’s bandwidth.
Firefox 1.0.3
Posted: Tue 19 April, 2005 Filed under: Geeky 3 Comments »Hmmm, well, Firefox is now being a pain. I installed the latest 1.0.3 yesterday, and the entire thing now keeps going tits up.
The pop-ups keep being blocked, which is great – except that it also blocks pop-ups that’re requested – you know, like blog comments, for instance.
So I’ve gone back to 1.0.2 and the hell with some of those sneaky pain-in-the-arse advertising pop-ups.
Downage
Posted: Wed 13 April, 2005 Filed under: D4D™, Geeky Leave a comment »Apologies to anyone who had problems finding d4d™ this morning. According to 34sp’s status page something major went “fzzzt” and knackered lots of network connections within the host.
Anyway, all should be back to being well now.
Archaic
Posted: Sun 10 April, 2005 Filed under: Geeky Leave a comment »Over this weekend I’ve successfully moved Tivo, which means we now have something like 80 hours available for recording TV. I doubt we’ll need that much, but we’ll see.
I’ve also been plundering old data off old PCs before they go to the great repair shop in the sky, which has been kind of fun, in a very sad and geeky way.
One PC was old enough to be drawing an IT pension – a Pentium 1 chip, and still using a serial port for the mouse. No CD-Writer, no USB, no networking, Windows 95 (just), and no modem jack – that used a serial port too. The data’s been moved off that by floppy disk, it’s so old. I can’t remember the last time I used Win95, but hopefully I won’t have to do so again for a while.
The other one’s not quite so bad – Win 98, anyway. Still no USB, but at least it’s got standard mouse and keyboard sockets, so I could resurrect one of my old spare sets of gear. And I can use a CD burner on it, which makes life a lot easier.
After the data’s come off them both, I’m not quite sure what we’ll do with the (slightly) more modern one – it may end up servicing as a Linux machine or something. I just haven’t decided yet.
The other one though is likely to find it’s way to the IT dump in the sky. Even third world countries wouldn’t want it.