I was catching up on blogs today, and found this very cool speed test for the Internets (well the one I'm currently using). Thanks to Chad Fox for the link. That is 6,111 kb/s download. About adequate for all the downloads that venture into this house.
Category: Blog Bits
Last month, I blogged about how the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Deleting Online Predators Act. It appears that online opposition to this has been growing, and a newish site has been created to combat this legislation. The Save Your Space site aims to "show the public, the media and the U.S. government the … Continue reading DOPA, ii
Earlier this week while looking at other people's blogs, I found this link (courtesy of danah @ apophenia). It provides an insight to how different drugs affect our behaviours and our abilities to function, through the use of animated mice. It really is a very cool tool if you want to understand what actually happens … Continue reading Blog Surfing
I discovered today, that when I transferred all my blog posts over from LiveJournal to this new blog tool, that the private messages all became public. Never fear, I've gone through and passworded the posts, so you can see it exists, but can't read it. I'm not sure if this is how I'm going to … Continue reading LJ Xfer Discovery
My friend Damir shared this with me. It's a little dated (as in, October 2005), but it was an incredible read and inspiring! I'm intrigued enough to now go exploring the rest of this blog.
I'm trying to decide if I want to keep my blog here at LiveJournal, or move it over to my domain (I'd used WordPress I think for the blog part of my site). My renewal is not due until July, but I need to start planning it; as it won't be easy moving over two … Continue reading LJ -> WP??
I'm trying to decide if I want to keep my blog here at LiveJournal, or move it over to my domain (I'd used WordPress I think for the blog part of my site). My renewal is not due until July, but I need to start planning it; as it won't be easy moving over two … Continue reading LJ -> WP??
Earlier this week, I received an email from James Nunn. The subject of the email was "Feedback: our names" and I'm thinking to myself, hmmm... more viagra adverts (coming through my feedback tool on my website). I was surprised to open the email and find this: Dear James, Hi. This is a bit cheeky but … Continue reading Cool Email of the Week
I tried to paste a map here, but LJ doesn't do that kind of thing. Here is a link to my Frappr webpage. Why not click and add yourself as a friend (it's free and fun).