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#webbands - twitterings
OK, I don't normally do trends on Twitter, but this one on #webbands is sort of up my street and some of them genuinely made me spoil my cheap-ass keyboard with cold tea. They've just started to get a bit lame/obscure/overdone (delete as appropriate) but here's some of my faves, attributed where I can:
Going wayback...
Inspired by Google's 10th birthday and their 2001 search index, I had a poke around and found one of the very first web sites (or pages) I put together for local games company Jester Interactive.
Archived version from the Web Archive.
Look! Curved corners in 2002 - I was so ahead of the times. Just don't ask me what I was on when I dreamed up that layout.
Firefox 3 and "virus scanning"
Or, "I'm checking it, honest!"
Hmm. A mate noticed this earlier - his Macbook is currently fried so he's temporarily working on his girlfriend's machine with Windows XP (anyone feel his pain?).
On goes the spangly new Firefox 3... sooner or later he notices the new "Scanning for viruses" message which briefly appears at the end of a download.
Hang on a mojo: he has no virus scanner. Come to think of it, I thought, I've noticed this in Firefox 3 recently and neither have I. Yes, this is on my Windows machine - I've not run a virus checker for a long time. Only stupid people get infected. OK, OK, I admit my hard drive back when I worked at Jester once got trashed by some malicious shittery or other, but that was down to my own stupidity.
Anyway, that ends the invitation to send me viruses. So what exactly is Firefox doing with our downloads?
Best spam ever?
Sometimes the spam that slips through the filters is worthwhile when a gem, enough to bring a smile and make you feel aglow with cheer all day long, turns up. Like this one!
#home_and_garden virgin animal horse cat at leafish.com
A moment of panic, yesterday. "#home_and_garden virgin animal horse cat at leafish.com". Luckily, its all resolved now (a minor oversight on the domain's registrar's part), so I can laugh.
Ha. Ha ha. Ha. Sigh.
123-Reg comes a cropper
After several server related headaches over the last couple of weeks, Dylan and I were rather miffed to say the least when several of our sites went off-line this weekend due to a rather massive cock-up at one of the domain registrars we use, 123-Reg.
