It’s hard to believe this was aired in 1993.

I was 10 and the closest I’d seen was 2400 baud BBS systems like PRESTEL.

In 1994 I used Telefinder BBS on a Mac, with an internet eMail gateway… at 9600bps

By 1997 I was actively using the internet through a dial-up modem at 33.6k

It’s now 2007 and I am currently connected to the internet on a computer that surpasses anything we thought was possible when I first looked in amazement when I saw “Full Motion Video” the size of a book of stamps on a Mac in our school in a Hypercard stack at a speed of 22,528kbps or 23,068,672 “baud”

Makes you wonder what lies ahead…

Why am I the the only person who notices there’s something odd about this “police” car?

Everyone started slowing doing and forcing their way in BEHIND this car today (obviously they were going to force their way in front of people even further in front) … is it just me or are people just really unobservant?

Ever since blogger upgraded, their new RSS format “broke” FeedWordPress which I use regularly. (At first I thought it was just me but no, others have noticed it)

It would pull in titles and dates from the blogger.com blog but not any actual content (which isn’t tremendously useful). The fix is relatively simple but does involve modifying a PHP file in your wordpress installation.

Edit the file /wp-content/plugins/feedwordpress.php in your favourite text editor and scroll to around line 1,987 (it’s a big file) and add the following bit of code in there;


elseif (isset($item['atom_content'])) :
$content = $item['atom_content'];


So that section of the file should now look like this;


# Identify content and sanitize it.
# ---------------------------------

if (isset($item['xhtml']['body'])) :
$content = $item['xhtml']['body'];
elseif (isset($item['xhtml']['div'])) :
$content = $item['xhtml']['div'];
elseif (isset($item['atom_content'])) :
$content = $item['atom_content'];
elseif (isset($item['content']['encoded']) and $item['content']['encoded']):
$content = $item['content']['encoded'];
else:
$content = $item['description'];
endif;


That’s it. Should work fine now, although you will need to re-run update-feeds.

Hope this helps someone out there.

Some of you may remember a proof of concept of a CSS Captcha back in 2005 (didn’t realise this site had been around that long… probably time for a redesign!).

Anyway, that was the result of work by three people including myself;

• Stu Nicholls
  • Developed a “CSS Font”
• Eric Smith
  • Proof of Concept of using it as a HTML Captcha
• Ross McKillop
  • Implemented as a PHP script

Now imagine my surprise when I find someone posts a comment on here to promote their “HTML Captcha” product - a commercial product costing $55 which for some reason has been hosted on a .org domain and doesn’t credit the people who actually came up with the idea in the first place.

Surely by posting a comment here claiming “a working example of a CSS - HTML Captcha you can see here” then they’re acknowledging that they knew of this site (and the others) and have made a “working example”…

At some point if I ever get around to it I’ll wrap mine into a simple captcha script and release it as open source… It’s a good idea, and I’m quite impressed that a commercial product (if you can call it that) has appeared based on it - but credit where credit is due (not so much myself but Stu and Eric deserve it!)

Just as we’re finally ready to put my flat on the market, the neighbours decide to move!

The two flats on the floor below mine are both available, one for sale and one for rent.. I am hoping this won’t affect the value of our properties (having 3 for sale boards up outside!!) and that people realise it’s an odd coincidence even though it might appear like rats jumping ship together

On the plus side, it will probably bring more viewers to both of us