Archive for October, 2004

Everything in moderation.

Monday, October 25th, 2004

The horrendous amount of comment spam I’ve been getting lately has inspired an upgrade to MT3 so that I can enable comment moderation.

This means that if you post a comment, it won’t appear straight away. Rather, I’ll have to approve all comments before they’re posted to the site.

This will be a pain in the backside for me, and a pain in the backside for everyone else, but we’ll try it out and see how we go.

10 m.p.h.

Monday, October 11th, 2004

We left the house on Friday evening for a wedding in Southport and returned almost exactly 48 hours later, having driven almost exactly 480 miles. Which means that we had an average speed over the weekend of 10 miles an hour. Even when we were asleep :-)

Notable moments include a visit to the Royston Vasey Photographic Store (I kid you not, it was a truly surreal experience), and watching fireworks from the roof of the hotel (if I had any chance of finding the member of staff who risked his job for our entertainment, I’d buy him a drink – it was stunning).

iTunes bits.

Wednesday, October 6th, 2004

Couple of quick things I’ve recently come across to do with iTunes:

When you have TotalRecorder installed, you need to tell it only to use its drivers when TR is running, as they appear to conflict with iT giving rise to lovely crackles.

My primary complaint about iTunes for Windows is the space it takes up in the taskbar. This takes care of that quite effectively, even if the buttons are too small (12px by 12px? My display runs at 1280×1024. Think about that for a minute) – you don’t really need them.

Enjoy.

Who framed Jack Vincennes?

Saturday, October 2nd, 2004

[Another quick one.]

Last week my wife was asking me what LA Confidential (IMDb) was like.

The best I could come up with was Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (IMDb), only without the cartoons. And the comedy.

I was tired. It was the best I could come up with. Tell me you can’t see it?

I’ll get my coat…

Google goodness.

Friday, October 1st, 2004

So, a quick glance at my logs plus a brief google demonstrates that if you search on the phrase “emptying a bean bag”, this site is the first hit.

I like that.

(Has to do with this post.)