Epic Fail.
Site not loading, or failing to find any postcode, town or city. HTML validation errors. I guess they were on a tight budget now that the coalition has laid waste to their funding.
Embarrassing for the retarded developer Rock Kitchen Harris.
Mind you for the £300,000 it apparently cost then I guess they can sit in the south of France sipping a cool one feeling as red-faced as they like.
Paul, paul! Can you please re-boot teh interwebs I can’t download my pr0n?
Their ADSL service in the Wolverhampton area totally sucks. On an ADSL2+ service that I have seen hit 12Mb down and 900k up, which is good – don’t get me wrong. I also frequently see speeds of 200k down and 50k up with a ping ranging as high as 2-3,000ms. Yes that is the correct number of zeros.
There are an incorrect number of zeros running their network.
Twitter – not really sure I get it. Signed up made a few posts, joined a twibe, and came to the conclusion it seems to have become another form of instant messaging. Or perhaps I don’t feel the need to tell everyone when I stand, sit, walk, fart.
New iPhone 3GS looks awesome, so plan to upgrade on release on 19th June. I have the original 2G so am out of contract – making the upgrade easy.
Many are moaning it’s really expensive because they have to get out of their current contract. Maybe they need to understand better what ‘contract’ actually means. Or are the moaners just a bunch of me, me, me, want it now for nothing kids that society seems to produce these days.
Discuss…
Just a quickie today – oh eer missus!
Thought provoking stuff: EPIC
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all my readers, of which, accordingly to my logs, there are very few, apart from search bots, who wont understand the sentiment of this message unless the have become sentient.
Currently listening to: Broken Stones by Paul Weller
Milt has been concerned that his blog isn’t showing up on Google, so I suggested he needs some inbound links to improve his Page Rank. So here you go Milt.
Milt’s Muse
Confused
Crocodile Stuffing
Three Wise Men!
Stating the Obvious
Don’t Bonk a Brit
By the way, if you want to see the page rank of each web page that you view install this extension into your copy of FireFox.
More good news on the web browser front. It seems this university would rather you didn’t use Microsoft Internet Explorer. I wonder why!
Currently listensing to: Done by Deep Blue Something.
It seems that Lycos have switched off their Make Love Not Spam system that was hitting back at the spammers, I guess they fear they could be accused of organising a DDOS – Distributed Denial of Services attack on the spammers web servers.
Although I can appreciate that a DDOS attack is essentially wrong, it was really satisfying to see the spammers taking it from behind for a change. If we are engaged in a war with spammers then surely we need to use the same weapons they are using – you wouldn’t expect an army to sit there and let itself be shelled out of existence without firing back.
Hopefully, with the idea of hitting the spammer back in this way out in the open, some enterprising programmer will write some code to do what Lycos have done and distribute it “open source” on the net.
Imagine visiting www.shareware.com or www.versiontracker.com and being able to choose from 40 different screens savers that do to the spammers what they’ve been doing to us for years.
Fancy getting back at the spammers who fill you in box with their junk email every day?
Lycos have developed a screen saver that hits the spammer’s website slowing down their servers with all the traffic it generates and costing the spammer in extra bandwidth charges.
More on the story at the Beeb.
To download a copy of the screensaver go here – they even have a Mac version. Nice one guys.