Posts tagged with "internet"
STICKY POST
Sunday, 29. June 2008, 11:14:32
community, funny, game, internet
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I was just thinking that no-one had replied to one of my answers to a "W*Stock game" - and realised I could no longer find the darned thing to check!
This, coupled with the near-death of most of those games and the way the World's Longest Blog died out when she un-stickied it for a few weeks, made me realise I need to keep a list for myself and to promote it to anyone else passing by my blog as well!
I skipped out a couple of the sillier guessing games (sorry W*Stock) but here's the ones I want to keep visiting:
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Wednesday, 9. September 2009, 11:01:01
community, game, elephant, internet
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It's been quite a long time since I last got excited about an internet site or game... but this one sounds like it could be fun!
Monopoly City StreetsIt's going to be a massively-multiplayer online version of Monopoly, with streets taken from Google Maps. You can buy, sell, rent etc. any street in their system and then build stuff, destroy stuff, etc. etc. - all playing against each other.
It's going live later today, and I thought it would be nice if some of my MyOpera friends joined in. I'll certainly be giving it a go...
Oh yeah; and just for P*Nut: "elephant"
Friday, 24. April 2009, 15:08:40
rant, computers, blog, annoying
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I just read that Yahoo! is going to close GeoCities...
Gaaahh!
I deliberately migrated my old university-based home page to GeoCities years ago... precisely because I thought it would be a site that stayed online for a long time! The idea was that wherever I was in the world, I could still get access to my bookmarks and a few pictures to show people.
Okay, it's true that since the coming of the blog and then MyOpera's automatic bookmark updating (handy on my phone, that one!
) I haven't been using the home page much any more - in fact for the last five or six years the GeoCities one has just been a redirect to a "local" copy of the home page on whichever server I have it - but even so it marks the passing of an era.
Looks like MyOpera will end up being my only place for keeping stuff now... let's hope Opera doesn't go tits-up in the near future!
On the other hand, for mail I have had almost exactly the opposite problem. I got locked into OperaMail when it used to be a very open service (no data limits, free SMTP and POP access, etc.) and decided to adopt it as my permanent address. I hate it when friends keep changing mail addresses - I have a couple with about ten different addresses next to their contact details! - so I vowed never to do the same.
Unfortunately for me, OperaMail then moved to a different provider (Outblaze) and the service was severely restricted (3MB mailbox, no POP or SMTP - webmail only). I found web-to-POP solutions, so I stuck with it. But unlike GeoCities - OperaMail seems totally frozen in time... destined to stay forever with draconian mail limits from the mid-nineties. Years after all the other services have gone up to multi-gigabyte-sized mailboxes, I still have a TOTAL(*) LIMIT of 3 MEGABYTES!!! (And I still have to run web-to-POP software to get the mail at home.)
(*) Which can be annoying when people complain that their single mail containing a 5MB movie clip didn't get through... not that I really want to receive huuuuge mails either, thinking about it.
Monday, 6. October 2008, 16:09:29
malaysia, blah, news, internet
Just a quickie to say that we were lucky enough to be informed (by my dad) that it's possible to watch live coverage of this year's A1GP autosport world championship online... so we were able to follow two or three hours of a thoroughly wet, windy and miserable day at Zandvoort in near-TV quality!
(My dad and brother-in-law-although-not-actually-married were in the corporate hospitality there, due to BILANAM's mother owning a team-sponsoring company... the lucky show-offs!
)
Anyway, I rushed back from scouting out next week's Toulouse Hash just in time to watch it - and I'm bloody glad I did, since:
- the racing was a lot more exciting than F1
- having national teams makes it quite fun
- Malaysia bloody won!!! (first in the sprint race, second in the long race)
So congratulations to Faruz Fauzy.
You can watch the next race (Chengdu, China, 9th of November) live by going to the site.
We'll certainly be following the rest of the season...
Wednesday, 5. September 2007, 08:58:50
music, blah, news, internet
After our main PC crashed and burned (literally... more about that later), and then being without Internet for weeks, last night at two a.m. the home computer systems were finally restored to normality - after two whole months of making-do!
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Monday, 13. August 2007, 10:13:37
drew barrymore, internet
Got a mail from Jazz saying that internet is working at home now.
Yay!
That is all.
Friday, 10. August 2007, 10:40:57
annoying, rant, internet, information
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Did I get my point across yet? In case you missed it: France Telecom is crap!
Anyone thinking of taking an FT phone or internet connection in France should seriously try to use an alternative provider instead... we are looking to change to cable if possible.
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Friday, 20. July 2007, 09:49:30
rant, annoying, france, phones
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The story so far...
The PC suddenly starts crashing every ten minutes, we move house, we send a change of address to France Telecom, I resuscitate the PC, we wait for ADSL to be switched on in the new place...
But of course, depressingly predictable though it is, FT did *NOT* do the change of address properly... so after waiting the specified time I called them this morning and, SURPRISE SURPRISE (not): "they changed your address in the administration but forgot to request ADSL at the new place. That will now take another week."
Yay.
So they manage to do exactly the same f*ck up two times in a row for me. Let's hope it doesn't descend into the same month-long farce of three years ago (engineers who never turned up for appointments while I took time off work (at least five working afternoons wasted), phone on - ADSL off, then ADSL on - phone off, then all off... and all this while I was racking up a several-hundred-euro bill keeping contact with Jazz on my Dutch mobile).
I should also mention that this all started with the woman in the agency convincing Jazz that we should take up digital TV (only French, of course) and VOIP for an extra three euros a month, only to call back the next day to say sorry - they don't actually provide that service in our new neighbourhood - would we mind bringing all the equipment back again? And I had to go online to re-activate Caller-ID since she obviously didn't transfer that to the new address either.
Sigh. Same ol' same ol'.
Anyway, the PC is still sick. The power-pack had a failed fan, and when I replaced it the new fan wouldn't run off the pack's internal power line... so it's probably the power-pack itself that's unstable and I'll replace it some time after our holiday. For now, the PC runs okay with the box opened up and the power-pack outside (its new fan is now connected to an external line) - but it still crashes a couple of times a day. Not that it matters too much when we have no internet, but at least we have a bit of home entertainment back.
Thursday, 15. March 2007, 12:37:12
funny, internet, browser, bugs
Friday, 29. September 2006, 11:18:14
rant, internet, google
I posted a blog item a couple of months ago saying that Google has had some problems recently, and it seems it's still unreliable.
Today, I was out getting lunch and listening to the radio, but the station wasn't tuned properly. I knew I have a list of stations on my home page, so I wanted to use Google on the phone to get there. After about twenty minutes of typing in different combinations of words to get to my page, I reached the office already... so I tried again on the PC. Then I even copied and pasted a couple of distinct sentences that have been on there for about a year and it *still* couldn't find my page.
So Google does not have my page indexed at all!
This is even more remarkable since it actually used to come quite high on the list of search results using just a couple of search terms.
Oh... actually it can't be found in AltaVista, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask, Excite or AllTheWeb either. Very odd indeed! Seems like my host is blocking search engines then. Crap.
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