Welcome new posters

Well, in case there are actually readers out there and in case those supposed readers haven't noticed yet, there are now multiple posters on this blog. That's right, my brother J@s#ph has accepted the mantle of posting on this blog (his is the Dr Snuggles nom de plume, since I'm not sure if he want's his real name broadcast, I've cleverly obfuscated it). Hopefully my other brother Paul will take up the chalange as well and his name will be added to the list of contributers. Then you'd better run for the hills reader, coz I can't be held responsible for all the tripe that will follow (I might be responsible for a third of it, but that's neither here nor there).

All your base are belong to us

How are you gentlemen !!!

All your base are belong to us.

You are on the way to destruction.

You have no chance to survive make your time.

ha ha ha

New icons

I've changed the syndication icons on both my sites. I made up my own feedburner logo and my own atom logo. You can see them down on the sidebar of both this and my other site. I did this for a couple of reasons that may or may not make sense to some people.

The first reason, and indeed the reason that sparked the change, was that I had noticed this article on the site of a web developer called Simon Willison (hopefully he isn't so well known in the internet arena that not knowing who he is is a huge faux pas) and basically I agree with him. So rather than using the rather ambiguous XML icon, I made my own RSS feedburner logoed icon. I also made my own atom icon as I couldn't find any in the 20 seconds of looking that I attempted.

The second reason that I made my own is that the real RSS, XML and Atom icons I have seen so far have those 3D style beveled edges, which I intensely dislike. It was one of the first things that I didn't like about the internet, all those beveled edged pictures and tables, eeuugghhh....

So anyway, if anyone wants to steal my versions of these icons, feel free to do so (corporations must contact me to arrange licensing fees though).

Don't you just hate computers sometimes

Well, once more something has me slightly miffed this morning. Last night I tried to migrate my email from my Mozilla client over to Thunderbird (the Mozilla based dedicated email client) and it's not working. Not only is it not transferring over my old mail folders (worked fine for Annmarie's email, then again I have more accounts and folders and stuff) but Thunderbird can't even seem to access my accounts. I must say that computers are great when they work, but they are damn annoying when they don't. So for the time being I am resigned to using the web client for my email. Not that bad I suppose. I'll give the migration another go later. Cheers all.

Shameless

Well, I thought that I'd jump into another terrible web habbit and stick a google add link on this site. You should see them on the lower right of the page (unless you've got some kind of add blocker like Norton Internet thinggy).

Does this blog publish???

What's this all about? Well, just the other day my actual blog was not publishing. So to see if it was something I did to it or if it was the blogger site, I made this one up as a test. Since now everything was working I thought that I might just keep this one for the time being and just post up random stuff.

Cheers all