Just noticed a spike in traffic for the post below. I guess cottages4you are advertising on TV again.

Reminder: cottages4you.co.uk had appalling customer service when you need it most.

For the sake of a 60p battery that I changed 4 years ago my server spend 4 days down or in transit. Time to go non physical & get a chubby VPS.

.. Twitter is making me giggle:

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23bbccuts

Eastended #bbccuts
Match Of The Month #bbccuts
The Blue Planet…Aquarium #bbccuts
Jonathan Is Up Shit Creek #bbccuts
Never Mind the Buzzsaw #bbccuts
The half show. #bbccuts
Lidl Britain #bbccuts
#bbccuts dimewatch
Match of the Decade #bbccuts
Fifth Gear #bbccuts
Old Tricks #bbccuts
#bbccuts The Mouse’s Den!
last of the summer lambrini #bbccuts
Fawlty Bungalow #bbccuts

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Why oh why was this link for AIM for blackBerry so hard to find or hidden behind a subscribe wall ?

http://www.blackberry.com/send/aolinstantmessenger

<AOL> <RIM>

…Just busy. Must blog more and facebook less

My carbon offsetting your server blog post has been getting a lot of search traffic.  I’d like to know peoples experiences of offsetting hardware resources so please take a minute to leave a comment.

My colo box will be going virtual pretty soon so I will oficially unplug it with any luck. My ipv6 transfer didn’t go well, so I’ll make sure the virtual box has IPv6 and migrate everything slowly rather than changing every DNS record and borking a few things (like my smtp filter) in interesting and exciting ways.

So 1234554321 has passed and so too has 1234567890, I raised a glass to both & hope you geeks did too.

Kudos to Chris Rowe for http://coolepochcountdown.com/ the music and fireworks did make me chuckle!

Aside from Mattress shopping and ipv6 migration for the rent-a-rack I’m sure St Valentine will suck-up plenty of my time today.

Have a great day.

How easy is it to parse this string ?

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en…

Mac ?

Still looks like fun though (thanks to cnet), the point mapping functions could be be great for virtual viewing of houses Etc.:

Now turning the point map and images into vectors and textures could make it a near instant hit in the games geeks. Game of Quake in the V&A or the Louvre anyone?
GTA in the glowing areas of Amsterdam would be closer to the mark I think

I’ve been a twitter fan for a few months but with friends on such a variety of social sites it’s been a challenge to keep some form of status on the disparate services. Ping.fm has found and filled that niche by pinging a huge number of social networks and blogs too all at once, radio style.

It’s lacking an awesome client / firefox plugin. (I’ve been a twitterfox fan since day one). With an API already published I’m sure there is a twitterfox and twitterberry clone (google pingberry ) (spammers registered pingfox )

The biggest advantage however is the IM client. Twitters has been borked for months and only supported googles jabber thingie and nearly everyone I know are on the other three big networks. Ping.fm’s yahoo IM integration was the deal clincher as thats what I use on my Blackberry.

Use the ping.fm beta signup code “vivalaping” to try it out for yourself.

ReJaw is looking cool too, the way they include media in status updates I’m sure will be a very useful feature.