http://mark.goodge.co.uk A miscellany of opinions, thoughts, rants and comments Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:59:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Back in the self-promotional mood, I've got a couple of new websites to release to an unsuspecting public today. For a long time, I've been thinking that the concept used for MotorwayServices.Info could well be suitable for some other kind of review/rate site, and it ocurred to me that railway ... http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/177/two-new-websites/ It's been ages since I last blogged anything, so this is merely a self-serving post to remind the world that I'm still alive and point out that I've updated a couple of my websites. To begin with, now that I no longer have any need for a website advertising freelance work, ... http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/176/brief-website-update/ Today is the last time that I do the website of the day slot on Mike Rimmer's evening show on Cross Rhythms Radio. I start a new job next week, and this is the last time this week that the show goes out live. So, farewell to all my fans (well, ... http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/175/the-last-website-of-the-day/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7163547.stm So. Farewell then Netscape Browser extraordinaire Once you were the Dog's bollocks But now Just a load Of bollocks So. At last the beast fell And the unbelievers Had seen it coming All along. (apologies to EJ Thribb) http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/174/farewell-netscape/ I really don't know whether to laugh or cry at this news story. Apparently, it's already done the rounds of the net and I'm picking up on it a bit late, but this quote from someone who has difficulty with basic numeracy is just too good to go unremarked: I phoned ... http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/173/iq-in-negative-figures/ I've decided to make a start with resurrecting the Friday Fun website. I've given it a very simple makeover, and added a new feature - a "How British Are You?" quiz. More will follow when I get sufficient supply of circular tuits. http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/172/friday-fun/ I've found another bunch of idiots who seem to think that linking to their pages on anything other than their terms is something they have control over. I wonder if they were as useless for all of their clients as they were for this one. http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/171/more-linking-nonsense/ The kittens started to show signs of wanting to escape from their box, so we opened the side to let them have the freedom of the living room. They now seem to have found a new home, on the bookshelf! Typically, they're either fast asleep or haring around the room at ... http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/170/more-kitten-photos-sorry-if-this-is-getting-boring/ In a blatant attempt to generate traffic to my blog, I've added some more kitten photos to the gallery. http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/169/more-kitten-photos/ I'm selling some stuff on eBay at the moment. Currently on offer is a box of ex-BBC open reel tapes, and a box of audio cartridges. Go on, take a look - you know you want to! http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/168/stuff-for-sale/ Continuing an irregular blog theme, when I got out of bed this morning I found cats in the following places: Cat 2 (Sproingy) was asleep on the windowsill in the bedroom, looking rather cramped alongside Emma's hair-straightening thingy. Cat3 (Scampy) and her kittens were in their box in the spare room. Cat 1 ... http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/167/where-were-the-cats-this-morning-3/ While the Friday Fun website is offline for redevelopment, I've moved most of the jokes it contained to a new home at www.triffle.org. It seemed a bit pointless to have a huge database of stuff just sitting around doing nothing, so I've thrown together a cheap and cheeerful website using ... http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/166/triffle/ The number of small furry animals in my household doubled on 10th July 2007, as cat 3 gave birth to cats 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3. You can see the inevitable photos in the photo gallery. http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/165/kittens/ I've moved the pleasegivemeone website to a new server and got it running again. The cat has gone, by the way, so that's no longer a motivation for giving. http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/164/back-online/ I've installed Gallery2 on the server so that I've got somewhere to put all my interesting photos :-) I've linked it to the blog by means of some custom customisation, rather than using the WPG2 plugin - I found that the plugin wasn't really working very well, and I don't ... http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/163/photo-gallery/ I've added a simple CAPTCHA element to the comment submission form. Hopefully, it will cut down on the number of spam comments I have to delete. http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/161/anti-spam/ I've moved the British Surnames website to a new domain: www.britishsurnames.co.uk (kind of obvious, really). It's also had a bit of a redesign, and a few new and somewhat funky features added. http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/160/british-surnames/ I'm just wondering if I'll get a call from the lawyers because of this. In case anyone isn't aware of the significance of these numbers and letters, this is the infamous AACS key which sparked a huge storm at Digg. http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/159/09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0/ As I left for work, cats 1 and 2 were sprawled on the floor near the bathroom door,where the sun shines through the window. One of them woke up when I went to fetch the camera, but the other was still there and I got this snap of it. Cat 3 ... http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/158/where-were-the-cats-this-morning-2/ There's been a lot of media coverage lately of Anya Hindmarch's "I'm not a plastic bag" bag. It seems that some people will pay over £100 for one of these on eBay. All this seems like another way of ripping off fashion victims - the type of people who will pay ... http://mark.goodge.co.uk/musings/153/im-not-a-fashion-victim/