No More Typos ...

The free host that I used for a number of years, memebot.com suddenly went down a few weeks a go with no warning. All the sites it hosted are now offline and there is no FTP access to the files.
For the record, here is a list of the sites they hosted scraped from the Google cache

With hindsight it wasn't very smart to expect a company to host my domains at no cost, and so it has proved. This left me in a mess with all my sites going down in an instant!

I have been scrambling to restore the sites and now moved everything to the excellent dreamhost with the exception of the few bits and pieces I didn't have backed up which are now seemingly lost to the ether.

Since people have asked me over the last few days, thought I should write my first impressions of Google Chrome:

On the plus side,

• super slick first-run experience and import of all my stuff from Firefox!
• Noble attempt to de-clutter the browser space up

On the minus side, there are a whole bunch of bugs which mean I after playing with Chrome I went back to Firefox soon enough, namely:

• My laptop scrollpad goes down but not up! Disaster (bug to track)
• It makes a windows warning beep when you press Alt + D (bug to track)
• No print selection yet, Chrome hates trees (bug to track)

And rather ironically, I can access google stuff better through Firefox than through chrome, like Google Bookmarks and Browse By Name.

At least I can sit back and and track these issues, so I'll know when Chrome 'works for me,' not yet though!

Nitin asks:

Are these million pixels for firefox actually going to the mozilla corporation?

Well, I can certainly say they won't be going to the Mozilla Corporation since it doesn't accept donations!

I think I've received some very targetted spam from my Bugzilla account:

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Dear Gids,

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The data used in our Firefox demo account is the actual data from Firefox's Bugzilla
that is represented in a way that allows you to have an alternative way of
viewing and analyzing the current state of the product. You can generate various reports,
graphs and charts which are not provided to anonymous users of the original database
otherwise.

While the purpose of the account is mainly to be a demo vehicle for
Yoxel Systems' services and capabilities we believe the actual content and its
representation could be of certain interest to you.

Happy New Year,
Yoxel Systems Info Team

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Jorge Writes:
We're all in the same boat stuck with crappy hardware drivers, nearly non-existant ISV support, no common developer platform, and an increasing amount of momentum users willing to just give up on a Free Desktop and go buy Macs. And we're arguing about a print dialog! @!#$%@#$%!!!!

I can vouch for Jorge on that one having been in that exact situation. Trying to get people to use Linux and being stumped by broken printer drivers. The hoopla to get the thing on paper was akin to Danny Williams doing Ballet. To permit me a trashy metaphor, if the Linux Desktop is a steep hill, printer drivers are the sloshy mud right at the bottom, never mind if it's pretty nearer the top!

My T-Shirt arrived in the post this morning. Very cool indeed.

In Thunderbird

Select All--> Mark as Read ..... two minutes later ..... done

In Gmail

Select--> Actions --. Mark as Read ...... 10 seconds later ..... done

vive le difference