This is cool!

Did you know that you can watch youtube videos in HD?

Goto the youtube video that you want to see and type

&fmt=18

And enjoy a better youtube experience.

Cheers

Dave

My brother Alan has started an interesting blog about his boat trip. He has semi-retired and is traveling the canals of Britain in a narrow boat.

You can find his website at nblazydays.wordpress.com

Go and check it out it looks like a good lifestyle

I had a strange problem with firefox 3, it would be fine to start with (after the pc had been rebooted) but then after opening a number of windows it wouldn’t refresh correctly.

Tabs would merge and it all went horrible. I’d have to close down the browser, reboot and it would be fine for a bit longer.

I uninstalled all my addins reinstalled same problem.

It wasn’t until I was using that PC remotely that I noticed it didn’t happen when using logmein. That’s when it dawned on me that the problem occurred when when logmein was running in the background. The next time I had the problem I shut logmein down and bang the problem was gone.

Logmein was causing it. I stopped using it for now.

Cheers
Dave

Just found this website http://www.scarletmist.com

Basically if someone can’t go but has the ticket they will sell it to you at cost. How cool it that?

The Internet is truely great…

Ok, so I have this problem, I need to find out which is the best domain registration service. Why not try twitter I thought so I twittered the question. To my amazement in just a few short minutes dozens of replies

Twitter is really great, maybe not in the way people think it is.

Just out of interest most people seemed to recommend godaddy.com as the best domain registration company.

Cheers

Dave

I’ve tried to add some ads to my blog but it just seems to break the page in IE7. I’m looking into it and will post what I discover here.

I’m sorry but this is what I believe. I have had a lot of problems with the BBC news site in the past:

1. most read, most email varies depending on what page you’re on! How is that possible?

2.Video/Audio/text content is only available in 1 form, you need to support at least text, but many stories are video only. Why? At least have a subtitles option.

3. “Scientists say” stories! Tea is good for you, tea is bad for you… etc. etc. no evidence, rarely do they even bother to name the scientists involved, this is dumbed down nonsense. STOP IT! This is true of the TV news as well as the site.

4. Sources should be clearly quoted at the end of each story; so that we can check these sources and find out more.

5. They boast accessibility but the “new” website still uses tables for formatting!!! Making the site very hard to navigate for the visually impaired. this is a basic stuff come on BBC if you need some help with this please just ask! Other BBC sites are very accessible so just no excuse really.

6. The news ticker on the front page should have a back/forward button, it’s so frustrating when you get a glimpse of a interesting story then have to wait for it to come around again.

7. Very biased reporting on Bill Gates recently, seemed to be just free publicity for Microsoft

The good news is the bbc news site could really be a world class site if it could address these problems. Generally news is the BBC’s flagship product, they must not fall into the trap of dumbing down news to retain more viewers.

Cheers
Dave

Just had that feeling, you know the one when you wake up suddenly at 8:50am and panic “I’m late for work…” then realize it’s actually Saturday. Wow what a great feeling that is! You can’t buy feelings like that; but then thats a good thing, really.