Archive for February, 2005

February 26th, 2005

Special Crash!

Posted in Silly Flash Things by Diggory

Yet another totally unexplainable, yet strangely addictive Japanese Flash game.

zubaaaaaaan

NaNaCa_Crash!

The word “Aerial” on the left is somehow important: when it’s blue you can press the blue arrow below the it… which will push you downwards. You get three goes at the red version - which gives you extra height.

February 25th, 2005

Can you hear me? Hello is this thing on?….

Posted in General, Networking by Diggory

Right - second time lucky.

It appears my server has been firewalled for the whole of this week - my shiny new NetGear DSLRouter is a bit too clever by half - and has a built-in firewall that cannot be turned off. I didn’t realise this until this morning.

D’oh!

Drop a comment if your the first here, and salve my tortured mind, would you?

Thanks,

Digs.

February 21st, 2005

Annnnnd…. I’m back.

Posted in General by Diggory

mmmm - new broadband…..

4Mb

The static IP addresses took longer to allocate than usual - that’s why the site has been down longer than necessary.

February 14th, 2005

Leave my Letters alone!

Posted in Silly Flash Things by Diggory

Flash Fridge Fun.

Swear word

February 13th, 2005

Downtime (fo’ real this time)

Posted in General, Networking by Diggory

Bulldog have contacted me and will install on Wednesday - so I’ll have to change DNS details then - which may take up to 2 or 3 days to propagate.

I’ll contact Easynet on Tuesday to let them know I’m still connected to them, so I should go dark after that.

See you after the change-over (I hope…)

(edit - changed days to be accurate.)

February 13th, 2005

Augmented Reality

Posted in Technology, Zeitgeist by Diggory

Augment Reality

A Fascinating Video of a Demo shown recently.

Finally - Military commanders can plan missions just like in the Movies…

February 9th, 2005

Tony Blair - He likes to bend the truth

Posted in Real World, Zeitgeist by Diggory

Tony Blair, Mac Developer!

February 3rd, 2005

:( AM HVNG HRT ATTK (not really)

Posted in Real World, Technology by Diggory

A Pacemaker that sends SMS messages when you’re about to kick the bucket.

Just don’t have a heart attack in a tunnel…

February 3rd, 2005

BT Flinches

Posted in Networking, Real World, Technology, Zeitgeist by Diggory

BT is offering better access & prices to the local-loop in an attempt to head off Ofcom’s threat of using the Enterprise Act to split the telco.

That’s good news.

Meanwhile - in related news, Bulldog still can’t provision my DSL order — five weeks after the order — because they are waiting for BT to open slots in the Bayswater exchange….

Which reminds me - I’ve got a dilemma for my three readers: Easynet haven’t disconnected my DSL yet (as you can see by reading this post) - even though the three month cancellation period has elapsed (and they sent me a three month bill instead of my normal annual bill.)

Do I ask them about it now, and probably lose my DSL, or wait until I get a definite provisioning date from Bulldog?

Knowing my luck - they’ll try and charge me another three months for not telling them, or something…

February 3rd, 2005

DysleXcodia

Posted in Coding / Development by Diggory

What happens when XCode goes mad and decides that certain letters are evil?

DysleXcodia

I know that code looks Greek to most people - but it’s not meant to look like that. Have a look at the pop-up menu in the toolbar called “Active Build Style” - it’s like a crossword puzzle. (It’s meant to say ‘Development’)

Most peculiar.