I've Posted

Well I really don't know why we need so many blogs, I hardly find the time (or motivation) to post to my own blog. So he we go.

I've been looking up broadband deals so that when Joe and I get a place we can have a decent connection (still need to find a wireless ADSL modem). Well I have found a good site for checking out all the broadband deals (it's like whirlpool in Australia). It's called adslguide and has a pretty extensive list of providers as well as a utility to check if your phone line is already ADSL enabled.

Well happy trails.

Paul.

ICQ status

Well since Dr Snuggles has added his post re ICQ (and since he seems to be insisting on continuing to use this piece of instant messaging software) I've added ICQ status indicators for our profiles. Well, at least I have added an indicator for my profile and two that I think might be him. I'm not entirely sure what number he actually uses now. If Paul starts actually using ICQ again too, I'll add him on as well. Also, after DrS's comments on his stolen ID, I've added his old ID to see when the cad that stole it is online, although said cad seems to not have show when I'm online set on his web page so it might not work, grrrrrrr.......... Anyway here's hoping that DrS gets his old number back.

Also, since I have added my ICQ status onto the page, it would seem to make sense to start using it again. So I might just reinstall ICQ again which will mean I will be running 3 IMers, kind of. I am currently running Skype with the idea that eventually I will be calling people round the world on their landlines from the internet. Well, one day. I also have Eyeball Chat installed, once more without actually using it properly yet. But that one will be for tele conferencing with Australia, so hopefully that one will actually be useful.

My New Quest ... for now

I've been using ICQ 4 (Lite edition) to chat with people back home while I'm overseas. I stopped using ICQ some time ago when it became bloatware but now I'm back on the IM bandwagon. The only problem is that my original ICQ number 2006880 (which I always remembered because of the game "688 Attack Sub") has been hijacked by someone and I can't get it back. I've registered a new number with ICQ, but it's near the quarter billion number range. My 2 million number is looking much better, so I've decided to take my brother's advice and try to get it back from ICQ. First emails, then onto more drastic methods later.

Watch this space, this could get ugly

Blogger.com Hear Me!

Well I'm a little upset that Blogger.com did not take my request more seriously. I told them that the automatic profile template they have does not produce XHTML 1.0 Strict markup yet this is exactly the DTD they specifiy they do support. It's an unclosed <img /> tag (they don't insert the closing '/') and it all boils down to my site not validating. It seems that this site also doesn't validate due to some errant ampersands. So it means I'll have to do some hand coding in the templates so I can rightfully put the XHTML compliant logo on my site. Perhaps Damien will do the same for this one? Eh? EH?

Computers aren't so bad after all

About a month ago I posted about trying to migrate my email from Mozilla to Thunderbird and it not working quite as I had hoped (I say a month, but that's like 4 posts ago). Well I have now successfully made the transfer, and once again that was like 3 weeks ago. So I thought that I'd post up an update, just in case there actually is a reader out there and that reader is sitting with baited breath for the result of my migration. All done, green light. For the reference of any who may find this looking for a way to migrate themselves, I made a copy of all my folders in a personal folder and moved that whole structure to the thunderbird directories, then I opened thunderbird and copied the mail back to where they should be. Easy. As for the not connecting to my accounts, dunno, but it's working now.