Things You Find

I read an interesting article on The Register about the Firefox Plugin AdBlock Plus, the article covers a bit about the current favourable relationship between Firefox and Google which could be threatened by the increased usage of products that block adverts from being displayed. I am no fan of adverts on websites, as you can see; this site is devoid of adverts for the conscious reason that I find them distracting. Many adverts can not be controlled, if I add adverts to a page then I am leaving some of my screen space open to be used by another company, doubtlessly this company will have different views on what is appropriate, perhaps they promote content I would find objectionable (betting or breaking of game rules for example). ...

We had some friends down at the end of last week, and they both have Facebook accounts (or is that Facebooks, or Faces, or Facebook Profile pages. They use Facebook in other words) so Catherine signed up, then I signed up, then I spent an hour deciding what I wanted my permissions to be. I have finally settled on a partiuar group of settings that I like to call “Totally Paranoid”, everything is set to only be visible to “My Friends” including search, you will have to contact me outside Facebook unless you are entirely better at Social Networking than I am and can still send me a Friend Request. On a lighter note this post should be published on Facebook via Flog. ...

A friend of mine from EVE, Planetside and OcPS has managed to get some of his photo graphs on his local BBC website, you can see the gallery on his website here

I have recently rediscovered a old friend, Digiguide I used to use it all the time before I went to university to remind me of when stuff I want to watch is on TV, however lack of TV meant that I wasn’t quite so enthralled by the possability of having it back. However if you want an electronic TV guide that reminds you of what you want to watch then it is about as good as it gets. ...

Yeah you got to love it, when you are reporting a crash to Sun because OpenOffice.org crashed, the crash reporting program crashed!

Pete and Elkanah better be watching out, it seems that bears in Croatia (where they have gone for their honeymoon) have become “Brighter than the average bear”: Ananova.com The Loknar family from Gerovo in western Croatia said the bear had knocked at their door three times and they were now refusing to answer the door.

I can’t believe it, people out there actually read my blog, I am fairly impressed I thought I was blogging to myself… not a necessaraly a bad thing that.

#450301 +(602)- X <@buo> A byte walks into a bar and orders a pint. Bartender asks him “What’s wrong?” Byte says “Parity error.” Bartender nods and says “Yeah, I thought you looked a bit off.” Yeah its one of those stupid geek jokes but i liked it.

If you are looking for free fonts then you cant go far wrong with DaFont, they have a huge number of free and commercial fonts, I have not looked into the licences for the free fonts but for personal publications they are free to use :)

I heard this on EVE-Radio, and then spent half hour searching for it on Google. Mark from Greenacre contemplating the spelling of AC/DC