Something Odd!

Good news and bad news!
Flor Griffin are going to replace my camcorder, I’ll call in tomorrow and pick up a new one. Hopefully this one won’t display any artifects. (thanks Mark!)
RSI is worse than ever this morning, pain is shooting up my arm. I really need that holiday!

The Irish General Election is on today. My dad’s working at the polling booth in our local area. They’re open from 7.30am to 10.30pm – I’m voting later.

If you use Galeon to attempt to register on hotmail.com you get this nice informative message:

Microsoft® .NET Passport no longer supports the Web browser version you are using. Please upgrade to a current Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0 or later, or Netscape Navigator version 4.08 or later.

I just wanted to see how fast it would take the spammers to discover that address. *shrug*

Woo! I used a spreadsheet to do something useful for the first time in my life! It wasn’t Excel either, but Open Office, running in Linux. Don’t be too smug though, I have never had or usually have a use for a spreadsheet in my use of computers.
No, I’m not going to reveal what I used it for, it was a rather simple operation!

Damn, I’m on to my third keyboard in as many years. Water does strange things to them and you can’t just unplug PS/2 keyboards and plug another in. Uptime of 103 days too. *sob*

If you edit your Blogger site (or any other html) in Mozilla or a browser using the Mozilla engine then you may run into trouble with comments in textareas: Bug 133044 covers this issue and explains why my template screws up when I use Galeon to edit it. It’s also appeared as a problem at work so I’ll have to go back to Netscape for a few things.

There’s going to be a cleanup at RKO. Check the URL for lots of tunes that are going to disappear on June 1st!
I found this excellent remix of the Creatures Torture Chamber tune there.
UPDATE: He’s getting rid of some excellent tunes!

Do you run a mainstram website? Check your logfiles. Over the past 2 months Mozilla (aka Netscape 6) has made an appearance on the top 15 browsers list on the site where I work. 1%, 3% and this month so far it’s at 4% this month! Our’s is a non-techie futures site so I presume the people using Mozilla aren’t techies on the bleeding edge of technology. Great!

I found Solbeam.com a few minutes ago. It seems to be a site about the travels of the author. There’s an excellent page on packing which’ll come in handy. I know Martina is going to be very interested in this!

Dave picked up on the disturbances in Dublin I reported a few days ago. I’m glad to see a popular weblog run with the story and provide links to more information about it.

Courtesy of Daves Picks comes CSS browser support: basic concepts which I must delve into later.

It’s hard to find information on digital equipment such as Sharp WD250 camcorder. A lot of it seems to be sponsored adverts/information without user comment. Now’s my chance to dilute their message. I bought a Sharp WD250 camcorder last February. It’s a nice camera, has 26X optical zoom, uses mini DV tapes, DV-out.. Problem was, the picture quality and sound got distorted a lot! At times the picture looked like it had blocks of scrambled images across it, something I’ve only seen in mpeg videos, then the sound would go silent and crackle intermittently. I brought it back to the shop and I expect to get it back on Thursday or Friday hopefully. I’ll post more news later.

If you’re using Linux and need to find the spelling for a word, just type “look [start of word]” and it’ll print a list of alternatives. It’s actually for displaying “lines beginning with a given string” but by default it uses the dictionary file! Guess who wasn’t sure how to spell “intermittently”?