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?

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!

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.

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.

The Register reported on the problems.

Today I felt like someone had placed me in a rickety Website Wayback Time Machine. We recently took over the hosting of a website as the owner had begun to experience troubles with both his existing host and his website designer/support.

So, we moved the sites, cried at domain registrars etc, and then cried even more once we saw the site itself.

The site had a 1218 x 9200 px background image in order to create a header and left hand menu... and a black background. The actual HTML body was white. It was also set as the background of a table cell quite deep within the page. Picture me, gob smacked.

A quick bit of cropping and some tweaks to the HTML and it was fixed, purely so I wouldn't keep myself awake at night worrying about the bandwidth being pissed away by this 230k monstrosity.

However, as I smiled and began to forget about this black JPEG of doom, I realised I had to make the same changes to each and every single page individually.

Bring back the old days? Sod that.