…is this!!!
new look blog… well, new look to me anyway…
OK, this affects precisely none of you, but the lovely Sarda has just upgraded the blog software used here to the newest version of Moveable Type, so the blogging process looks completely different for me…
The biggest difference for you is that I’ve just switched comments back on, so feel free to trawl back through all the nonsense I’ve been typing over the last wee while and comment away… We’ll see how long it lasts before the spammers get round whatever security is in place…
have at it…
[edit – ah, I’ve just remembered that I’ve deleted the comment-related stuff from the index template… must replace that before you can comment… Doh!]
OK, how does this work??
So last night I was importing ‘Stranger’s World’ by the wonderful Patty Larkin from CD into iTunes. For some reason the CD wouldn’t read on my iBook (about 1 CD in 4 doesn’t…), so I hooked up my external drive to my desktop PC (now safely installed in new house) and burnt it on there. took external drive, hooked it back up to iBook, sync’d iPod, and listened to said album… now here’s the inexplicable weirdness – for some reason there are bits of one or two of my tunes scattered in amongst the MP3s – you get 30 seconds of ‘Dear Diary’ by Patty, followed by a load of something off one of the Lessons Learned albums… then back to Dear Diary… WTF??? How the hell does that happen? How have I managed, by sheer force of narcissistic will, to pollute other people’s lovely music with chunks of my own lovely bass noises??? that surely doesn’t make sense?? Geeks? Bueller? Anyone?
Jaiku – micro-blogging
As if I wasn’t already blogging enough and spending enough time faffing about online, my visit to Jeff Schmidt’s site to get the link for his podcast reminded me that he uses a microblogging service – Jaiku as a way of adding single line updates to his blog…
So of course I had to sign up, and have now got the feed embedded on the front page of my website, and here on the front page of the blog (which, if you’re like me and only ever read blogs via a feed reader, you’ll never see). Talking of feed-readers, if you just haven’t got enough already, you can add my Jaiku RSS feed.
Now to start planning the Podcast… :o)
We have a server back up, I repeat the server is back up…
False alarm, it’s all working again now.
we have a server down. I repeat, the server is down…
just a note that the stevelawson.net server seems to be down – no mail, no website, so nothing right now, and I can’t log in to cpanel to see what’s happening (cos, obviously, it’s on the same server…) – normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. Until then, here’s some music…
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very cool app for Safari (mac) and Firefox (PC)
Just found a link to piclens on Jonny Baker’s blog – a photo viewing plug-in that does amazing things with Flickr pages, facebook photo pages and google image searches. It’s fab, go get it!
oh come on, it's not that good!
OK, so I’d like an iPhone as much as the next Apple iGeek, but this is insane
(as found on the lovely Bananie’s blog.)
domain name cloning…
I woke up this morning to well over 1000 ‘returned mail’ emails in my junk folder – someone had cloned the stevelawson.net domain for sending out spam, and I was getting all the replies.
So I’ve had to set everything that’s not steve@… that domain to disappear into a blackhole. If you’ve been using anything other than that on stevelawson.net please change it, cos it’s not going to reach me.
I haven’t done the same to steve-lawson.co.uk yet, but we’ll see how it goes.
Blog template fixed..
Yay! I’ve been able to fix the look of the blog to get rid of the old header and get the design in line with the rest of my site. That’s been bugging me for weeks.
Big thanks to Sarda for fixin’ the server despite no help whatsoever from the hosting company…