Future plans are to move #! code from the utterly useless TalkTalkBusiness “hosting” service so this server. I just wanted to get this blog moved first before concentrating on a site with far more traffic.

I would highly recommend heart internet. Their control panel brilliant, their customer service is amazing (even on a Sunday) and the VPS seems to be very stable. I was able to go from nothing, to fully working VPS in about 15-20 mins.

Draw Muhammad Day 2012

So to counter this they got in paleontologist from the natural history museum in London who said that this was the opinion of scientists in the 60s, but if he had read the literature he would have seen the evidence for dinosaurs being able to support their own weight. The science done over the past 40 years had conclusively proved that even the largest of dinosaurs had the bone and muscle structure needed to allow them to move around.

It was a classic put down (in a single sentence) of a typical arm chair scientist that hasn’t done any research and has come to his own conclusions about things. I’m not quite sure what BBC Radio 4 was trying to do here, but it was definately an interesting exchange.

Perhaps they should do the same with homeopathy?

I’m thinking this is 17p out of every £1, but still, where does the rest of the money go if only 17% goes towards what I would consider everything needed to actually run the sodding train.

Thanks Northern Rail.

Wanted laptop computer or desktop computer, any old pictures. hi does anybody Have a old laptop or desktop pc they no longer use as i am in need of one does not matter if the laptop screen is broken cause i Have a html lead and a vga lead so could connect to my tv and my walls look a bit bear so could do with some old pictures to put up if any one has any lying around please thanks CW2

Anyone have any idea what a html lead is? The mind boggles…

They have since corrected the mistake, but I am one of those people who tends to take screenshots of things like that, just in case…

Netherlands Win World Cup?

Working with websites all day I can see how this sort of thing can happen. Although I would say that CBSNews needs to give its users a little more training

This bit of news was, in fact, how I learned who had won the 2010 world cup. I didn’t watch the final, or indeed, any of the matches during the contest.

This time the article was titled: “How ‘BT Sarah’ spies on your Facebook account: secret new software allows BT and other firms to trawl internet looking for disgruntled customers.”

Here’s the link

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1284363/How-BT-Sarah-spies-Facebook-account-secret-new-software-allows-BT-firms-trawl-internet-looking-disgruntled-customers.html

My first gripe with this article is the use of the term “secret software” to describe something that takes literally 2 minutes to do and doesn’t even require any software to be installed. Any company can keep track of their brand through a simple Twitter search, but things like Google alerts are also useful. Indeed, a Google search for the term “social media search” reveals site after site who provide exactly this service, and almost all of the time it’s free!

Secondly, social media is an excellent way of keeping tabs on the general feel of your brand online. I would absolutely expect all brands to track their own name on social media sites as the bare minimum of online presence. In my opinion, a company with a good PR department will proactively solve problems that their customers are having using this mechanism.

Think about it, how likely are you to buy from a company a second time if they sort out all of your problems for you on a personal level? The fact that you might have had trouble in the past becomes irrelevant when they turn around and are actually nice to you.

One important lesson the Daily Mail seems to forget time and time again is that *ALL* social media sites allow you to protect your updates from everyone. People have full control over who sees any content on these sites (yes, even on Facebook), so any content they put there is done with the full expectation and understanding that it will be read by someone else.

I really don’t see the problem here.

• Turned 30.
• Changed jobs.
• My son started school.
• Visited Windermere on a family holiday.
• Started writing #! code.

Whatever you are doing in 2010 I wish you happiness and prosperity.