Monthly Archives: March 2003

Blogshares

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I’ve been playing about with blogshares again. It really is good fun. Seyed Razavi is doing a great job, and seems to be constantly updating the whole thing. As problems are found or as they are reported, they are addressed and fixed, new features are being added all the time too. There is a great buzz about the whole thing.
Go have a play.

Mothering Sunday

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We’ve had a good day today. Jamie and I got up early (notwithstanding the Daylight Saving Time change!) and made Jan breakfast in bed. Jamie gave her her card and presents. Then we went out early to see my Mum, who is recovering from yet another cold.
Later lots of us went to the Shaandaar restaurant in Rusholme’s Curry Mile. There were 13 of us altogether, and it was pretty busy. We had to wait a while to get seated, but once seated and served, the food was good and everybody had a good time.

Oops! Some things can be a little too popular

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It looks like blogchalking should have considered sending out staggered emails regarding their change of server rather than modifying the images pulled from their old server to say “update your image”.

“Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.”

I also read this story on wired today:

“An author hoping to spur sales of his book is facing a gigantic bill after an online publishing experiment went horribly awry.
Last week, writer Glenn Fleishman offered his book, Real World Adobe GoLive 6, as a free download.
But instead of the few hundred downloads Fleishman expected, the book was downloaded about 10,000 times in just 36 hours. And because he’s charged incrementally for bandwidth, Fleishman estimates he could be billed $15,000 at the end of the month — possibly a lot more.”

Blogshares Goes Beta

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Blogshares the fantasy stock market for weblogs has gone into beta. This means that members can publicise it (see the link in the left hand column) and that you can join and start trading.

“BlogShares is a fantasy stock market for weblogs. Players get to invest a fictional $500, and blogs are valued by inbound links.”

It looks like it should be a bit of fun, I’ve joined and started buying stocks.

Linkin Park Meteora Tracks

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Wow, Linkin Park must be really popular at the moment. In the last 24 hours or so, I’ve had more than 70 visits from people searching for Linkin Park. Almost all of those searching for phrases like “linkin park meteora tracks” (the most popular), presumably looking for MP3s of the album! Rather too many were searching for “linking park” 🙂
But hopefully no one has been searching for “lincoln park” 🙂 If they had I guess they won’t find too many pages!
As to the Linkin Park – Meteora album itself, it just gets better! I’ve probably listened to it more than 40 times already! I just can’t stop. It’s already a candidate for my album of the year. It really was worth the wait.
Recommended

Best of 2001 and The Skies Of Pern

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I’ve been neglecting my blog a bit lately, so I haven’t updated the ‘currently reading’ section for a few days. It’s been saying none, when in fact I’ve read several stories from Science Fiction: the Best of 2001 edited by Robert Silverberg. I say “some stories” because I struggled to get through some of the ones I did read. So much so that I put it to one side and moved on to The Skies of Pern by Anne McCaffrey which I am very much enjoying.
I nearly put this one to one side after I had started it too. But this time because it is the latest in the series and I still have to read at least the previous two books and I found myself reading about things that had happened in the previous books. In the end I decided it was too good to stop, and so I continued. I’m about two thirds of the way through the book now. I’ll say more when I’ve finished it.