Archive for July, 2006
Which counties have you visited?
29 July 2006Here’s an interesting meme that’s doing the rounds…
I’ve visited the counties in yellow.
Which counties have you visited?
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map reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data
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Is it Friday?
27 July 2006Ever woken up in the morning and wondered if it’s Friday? Well, this website is just what you need to answer that question!
Webwindows: Spammers and Rip-off Merchants
27 July 2006I’ve just been spammed by a company called Webwindows. It isn’t the first time - I get spam from them regularly, despite asking them not to. Other people suffer in much the same way, and Webwindows have been kicked off at least one ISP for breaking their terms of service. Spam, or Unsolicited Bulk Email […]
A challenge
26 July 2006Today’s website of the day is a puzzle. I’m not going to tell you any more about it, except that it’s very, very difficult, and you’ll find it at http://n.nfshost.com. Go on, try it. I’ll give clues,if requested, in futher comments on this post.
What’s your sign?
25 July 2006Today’s website of the day is the Street Sign Generator, at www.streetsigngenerator.com. Generate your own sign, like the one above. Fun? Well, mildly amusing, anyway.
Watching the weather
19 July 2006Given that today has been both the hottest day of the year so far and the hottest July day since 1911, today’s website has got to be a weather site! Weather Watch (at www.weather-watch.com) is a bit of a mixed bag, but one of the nice things about it is a list of amateur weather […]
Yo! er… Yo!
19 July 2006This was yesterday’s website of the day, my excuse for not getting it on the site is that the web server had a disk failure yesterday morning and needed to be rebuilt. Anyway, today’s (or, rather, yesterday’s) website of the day is the YoYo Museum, online at www.yoyomuseum.com. Can you walk the dog with yours?
Snake Oil
13 July 2006I was asked by a colleague to help them extract some text from a page that had been “protected” by a form of HTML encryption - the type of thing where the page is encoded by javascript and only displays if you’ve got scripting enabled.
Of course, getting the text out was trivial. There are several […]
First donations, and a first target.
12 July 2006Well, I’ve had my first income from Please Give Me One. I’m not going to reveal how much, and how many donations, just yet - I want to wait and see if I can spot some trends before doing that. But I’ve also now got a first target for the money - my wife’s car […]
Category change, and update
12 July 2006I’ve created a new category for articles related to Please Give Me One. I did originally think of setting up a blog page on teh site itself, but decided that it’s a bit pointless installing another copy of Wordpress just for that. So any updates will go here, and I’ll link them from the site.