Archive for January, 2006
TYyping Expereincemnt
FOr the following post I will nto correct typos, to demonstrate my annoyance with the sheer clume that I make. See if you can decipher it. I may accidentally correct a few out of habut, apologies.
Prents evening has come round agai!n It is my fgavbourite school night of the year. I really enjoy my parents meeting the teachers and seeing what they are like, and the teachers meeting the aprents and considering who is teaching their chid. I like that way that I get co tomolain about problems within the school, as this is one of the best opportunities to fo so.
THank goodness it is the weekend soon! I have been looking forward to the end of the week for some days now because I have ntoe particularly enjoyed it so
far. We’re not going to haslemere this weekend after all which is good because I knew that most of the tie spent theer after a three-hundred mile journey would be spent oing homework, which would be creally pointless.
On other news, we’re getting a new comp! It;s cheap and has 80gig hdd, so I’ll wipe and rep[artition it as soon as poss. We lie tp heeep thje laptio as the safe comp and the main computer as te one tasth OIca nmness aroumd roiwt.
See my poin?
Wow, I posted an announcement!
I’m quite proud of myself this evening, for I have claimed my thirty seconds of fame by posting an announcement that appears on the front page of the IBDoF! I’m pretty sure that I was okay to do it, although it may get moved to one of the other announcement forums that I do not have access to for neater filing purposes. I feel that this would make more sense. Oh, nearly forgot – the post was stating that the combined IBDoF and IBList forums have now reached a grand total of 100 000+ posts! This is in 5000 topics, which says a lot – I think that it’s primarily because of the game topics that have a stupid number of replies.
In response to my last post, several people posted about the decision to move this blog onto the front page. But they didn’t speak about the design! I have decided that moving the blog into a small column on the main page will make it easier to read and make it a more integrated part of the site that will be more usable to all. I intent to do this using the RSS feed that blogger automatically generates to have the news appearing on the page using some kind of PHP script, that I probably won’t write myself because parsing stuff to that level is beyond my ability.
So there we are. Not much happening, unfortunately – I’d love to post more but I just can’t think of anything to write.
Possible MAJOR Site Change
Ready? Stand away from breakable windows. Two possible changes and their reasons:
1) Make this blog the homepage of the site, the main page and the central page. This is because I have no content for anywhere else and don’t want things to look empty.
2) Use a blogger template for the blog, to remove the problems with cross-browser compatibility.
What do you think?
I HATE SPAM
LookSmart’s FindArticles – The spam wars: how should the Internet deal with junk mail?
Reason, Nov, 2003, by Wendy M. Grossman
This is interesting, especially the bit about sea sickness, something I realised today. Read on…
This morning, I had about three thousand spam messages. Okay, I said, I can live with that. I left it to deal with later. This evening, I had over ten thousand. Okay, I can deal with that… sorta… Five minutes later, I had about fifty more. They are coming in every few seconds and I do mean that literally (but not exactly!). When my mail screen refreshes, the filter bar shows that another fifty have been moved out. This is obscene. None are addressed to me, but I am SysAdmin so I get everything unrouted. I’ve tried to get the mail server to ignore them, but it won’t. So my mail client is filtering now. It did take a while for the system to knock out the 10k though. Anyway, I’m leaving it for now, and hoping that the filter is strong enough to handle it. Hoping. Thank goodness for Horde.
Oh, and I got an e-mail today from ye olde cP saying the DNS was messed up. Great. Tried to fix a little half-heartedly, because everything WORKS. Hope I did a good job. Also, I’m dissapointed, ’cause all my readers have gone! My blog lies uncommented on. Sniff.