Previous news: 24 October 2009

Internet? You changed man...
I can't remember exactly when I wrote the HTML and server-side code for the current incantation of this website, although I'm sure you can figure it out if you wanted to. But just looking at the source shows too many tables for the web of today!

Since I last seriously changed this website YouTube, Flickr and other such content hosting and sharing websites have come along. The websites of today either link to existing content on other blogs/YouTube/Flickr of they create content which other website then link too.

A jQuery?
A few weeks back I had a sudden web urge to revamp this website and started to put together a fancy new front page with crazy jQuery effects kicking off and links to all the cRaZy web 2.0 social media and content sharing websites... but after I'd quelled the urge the result wasn't enough to upload and use.

Although I don't actively bake and share lots of tasty content like I did back in the day I can't bring myself to stop paying for the hosting here as it doesn't seem right to condemn this site to digital oblivion.

Windows Prime
I've had Vista on my laptop (and my wife's) for several years now. It gets a bad press, but thanks to an ever present stream of updates I can't say I've had any real reason to moan about it. So even with all the positive cooing around the Win7 previews I didn't see the point in upgrading from Vista.

In the end someone sent me a link to a very cheap pre-order from Tesco and my inner geek forked out. Back in the present I'm typing this on my FTW7 laptop and... it seems nice. Certainly the edges have been sanded down more and there are nice little tucks and tweaks.

Tools for the people!
I used to be such a geek I wouldn't use WinZip because I felt more powerful typing

pkunzip keen1.zip c:\games\keen\

(It did feel nice to type that again!). I used to also feel like crying when I saw people wasting the potential of their 486, when I knew if I had one I'd be geeking out to the max!

I've come to realise that computers are just tools, to be used by people to get stuff done. Sure it used to be fun playing with the new themes in Windows 95 Plus, but now computers (with the add of the Internets) can actually do something useful for most people.

Who cares about how many clock cycles are being thrown around, go and enjoy the view.

Mav