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Blogs and Wiki: WikiAndBlog

Guy Carberry — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 13:35:28 +0000

Because plenty of people don’t fully understand the terms ‘blog’ and ‘WIKI’: Blogs and Wiki: WikiAndBlog

A great read and thoroughly useful to boot.

Catching up

Guy Carberry — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 08:24:07 +0000

After many years of procrastinating and using OU bandwidth I’ve finally signed up for a supa-fast 2mbps broadband service. It’s gonna cost me £20 a month but Stephen is paying that for 512kbps so it can’t be bad.

Once it’s all installed I will finally be able to give this site a design and spring-clean. It’s a shame I wont have anything done before I head down to @media next week. I’ll be one of the ones clogging the net up with Kubrick. The shame!

Web fatigue

Guy Carberry — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:57:29 +0000

I’m currently suffering from RSI in my right (mouse) hand. I think it’s from typing too much in a non-standard way. I’ve never fully got to grips with typing properly using the ‘f’ and ‘j’ keys as a base. My own fault. Must do better.

Not only have I got repetitive strain syndrome, I’ve also got web fatigue. I’m tired of looking at websites. I can’t appreciate web design properly anymore. I’m just too subjective. I’ve been attempting to redesign this site for nearly two years now. I’ve even mocked a new site up with a new design and new information architecture. But because I’ve been working on it so long I can’t be objective about it. I’m gonna leave it for a while and come back to it when the fatigue passes.

Nautical Napkins

Guy Carberry — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:57:57 +0000

When I was nine years old I recorded my own radio shows using an old tape recorder and a copy of Now That’s What I call Music 13. Never got a show broadcast on air, though we did write a few letters to various local radio stations. Ocean Sound in Southampton even wrote back with a friendly ‘no’.

So much respect to this nine year old chap setting up his own napkin printing business Nautical Napkins in order to make enough money to buy his own yaught. Seriously, he was interviewed by Matthew Bannister on Radio Five Live last night! This is legit.

My name is Jake Lunn. I am nine years old and live in a little waterside village called Newton Ferrers in the South West of England. I love sports and in particular anything to do with sailing, snowboarding and skateboarding. I got the idea for this website when I was on holiday in Sweden with my family. Our friend Winni who flies Airbuses for SAS invited us on his beautiful Baltic 41 and he had these amazing napkins with the name of his yacht in the corner. I thought they looked really cool. One evening we were all talking in the saloon over dinner and Winni asked me what I was going to do when I grow up. I said that I wanted to earn enough money to buy a big yacht. Everyone laughed and told me I had better start earning some money now if I was going to earn enough to have a yacht.

Windows Startup Control Panel

Guy Carberry — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 08:26:07 +0000

Anybody who’s lived with MS Windows for a couple of years will relate to the situation of waiting forever for your machine to boot each morning. One thing that contributes to this is the plethora of programs that are run at startup so you can quickly activate them when needed. Great if it only included the programs you use frequently but, alas, it doesn’t. Unfortunately there’s no easy way of removing programs from the startup process using Windows itself. However, help is at hand with Startup Control Panel. This great piece of freeware enables you to easily disable startup programs or completely remove them. Just what the disk doctor ordered.

Turning the tables on Nigeria's e-mail conmen

Guy Carberry — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:56:45 +0000

This BBC article is hilarious: Turning the tables on Nigeria’s e-mail conmen. We all get them, this man had a little fun with them. Splendid!

Email burnout

Guy Carberry — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 10:28:40 +0000

Is email really any good? I mean most of the stuff sent from computer to computer is spam and junk and useless guff. But every now and again you might want to communicate meaningfully with someone. But you find that their server is down (as it frequently is) and thus you’ll have to resort to quill and parchment once more.

The following edited for privacy:

To: “Stephen Turvey” < *******.******@hoenews.com>
Your message was not delivered to *******.******@hoenews.com
for the following reason:
Unable-To-Transfer
Misc Error: jpscm.jac.jpress.co.uk does not accept mail

Well thanks for that!

On the topic of email, I’m less frequently checking any email except my work address which is my first dot second name at open dot ac dot uk. If you need to contact me urgently, then that’s the way to go.

Green eggs and spam

Guy Carberry — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:29:01 +0000

Microsoft, AOL and Earthlink are sueing spammers. Whilst a nice gesture, it wont make the problem go away. Im in the process of making my home email account only recieve emails from people in my actual address book. Harsh measures I’m sure you’ll agree but im getting way too much spam these days. What happens when genuine people want to email me who have never done so before? Well I’m working on that but it looks like they’ll just have to use the contact form on this site.

Google what?

Guy Carberry — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 17:02:20 +0000

There’s a UK comedian who does a show about google. I can remember exactly what the phrase is but it involves typing some words into Google and only getting one result. There are plenty of examples of this on my site. For example, type in “Bitterne traingle riverside diner” and you will (at the moment) only get one result. See the result. In a few days there will be two results thanks to this post. Now, tell me what the term for this is…

Beta testing Digital Guardian

Guy Carberry — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:09:08 +0000

Because I’ve got an online account with Guardian Unlimited I can browse digital versions of The Guardian and Observer Digital Editions. Unlike the standard online versions of the papers this new facility allows the user to read the complete paper as bought in the shop, except online! There’s some clever technology being used that has saved me my usual monday morning 50p. If you haven’t got an account, I’d urge you to sign up and give it a try.