Archive for October, 2004

Unoffical Radiohead Album Covers

October 26th, 2004 (2004-10-26T23:24:53+0000) 6 Comments

I’ve been slowly working through my iTunes music library adding album art to my MP3s this week. (Aside: damn them and their rather-too-soon-for-my-liking Colour Screen iPods). While Amazon generally provides good quality album art at an optimal size of 300×300 px I’ve hit situations where album art simply does not exist. Tonight was Radiohead night, [...]

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Manchester

October 25th, 2004 (2004-10-25T01:31:43+0000)

I had my first weekend in Manchester for about 4 months last week. It’s been wonderful to be honest. I love the city, and seeing my housemates from the past two years was really, really nice. I know a lot of students spread themselves around and live with different sets of people in each of [...]

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Firefox 1.0 gets tab updates

October 25th, 2004 (2004-10-25T00:27:07+0000)

Being the geek that I am, I’ve been updating to the latest Firefox nightly every few days. Along with being able to enjoy the evolving fruits of Kevin Gerich’s Winstripe theme, I also get to prod at the new features.

One of the most requested is for ‘single window mode’ – where rather than use lots [...]

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Ugh, spammed.

October 13th, 2004 (2004-10-13T13:42:23+0000)

Apologies to those few who try to read this blog regularly. The site has been down for a few days while my ever-helpful host (NeatHosting) tried to handle my site being spammed for all corners of the globe.

The problem centres around b2Evolution’s stats page and has been a cause of spam attacks for a variety [...]

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iPod. It arrived. Who said it would be easy?

October 6th, 2004 (2004-10-06T23:59:30+0000) 18 Comments

Somewhere in the cosmos, someone has it in for me.

They couldn’t break my iPod in transit, but they could sure as hell give me the fright of my life when it did arrive.
Most iPod owners happily admit that the iPod software update program that you have to run to get it working, is a bit [...]

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