- I am in the Daily Mail
I got a phone call this morning from my Mum, informing me that a friend of hers had called to tell her that I am mentioned in today’s Daily Mail.
This is because of this. I’d sort of forgotten all about that little exchange, and certainly wasn’t expecting it to crop up in the pages of a book. Even more scarily, it has a picture of some other people I went to school who I had completely forgotten about.
- Wordpress Upgrade
I’ve finally upgraded to Wordpress 2.5.1. I have no idea why I’ve been putting it off for so long - it was, as ever, blindingly simple.
It does, however, appear to have busted my ‘Current Distractions’ sidebar section, but that’s not a big deal. Over the next week or so I’m intending on messing about with the look of the site a bit to make use of a few things I’ve been messing about with. The intention is to use Twitter for microblog-style updates and use Newsgator feeds (from NetNewsWire/FeedDemon) as a source for the linkblog-style ones. This should enable me to keep the site updated more regularly and to do my bit to turn the internets into one huge echo chamber.
- He was drunk and exhausted but he was critically acclaimed and respected
The best rock ‘n’ roll bar band ever to be fronted by a rambling Spielberg lookalike have their new album in its entirety streaming from their MySpace. It’s missing a bit on my MacBook speakers, but so far sounds a worthy successor to ‘Boys & Girls…’
- Macintosh All-in-one Museum
I recently sold a couple of old school Apple PowerBooks (a 170 and a 520, if you must know) on eBay. They were bought by an Italian chap who has put them up on his website, the Macintosh All-In-One Museum. Glad they’ve gone to a good home.
- Seven Deadly Sins wine glasses
I dread to think how much these things cost, but they’re brilliant. Want.
- FTP to TViX using Filezilla
Thanks to ‘transco’ on the TViXBox Forums for the heads-up that free, open-source FTP client Filezilla works with the FTP on the TViX boxes. Up to now I’ve been using the Terminal FTP because none of the other GUI-based clients (Transmit, Fetch, MacFusion, Cyberduck all tried) worked properly, apparently due to some oddity in the way that the TViX returns a directory listing
- Toxin-eating plants
I have to admit, I’m quite fond of my houseplants. I originally bought a few of them when I lived in a studio flat in order to try and help clean the air. Some plants specialise more in cleaning up harmful chemicals than others, and this page is quite a useful guide to what plants are good for which toxins.
- Twitter
I’ve become intrigued by Twitter. I’m not sure I quite understand what it’s for, or what it offers beyond what is already available via blog/email/SMS/talking to actual people, but I’m intrigued by it never the less. I’ve linked to my twitter page in the sidebar, along with a rolling update of my last 5 tweets, which I suppose could make for a fun microblog. We’ll see what, if anything, this turns up.