Archive for August, 2004

msnbot

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

It’s a bit like the annoying kid at school who everyone tells to push off, but they keep coming back just in case you want to talk to them. MSNbot, on seeing my “bugger off” in robots.txt, deserved thanks to its full-on approach to spidering that comes in somewhere between a DoS and a handy […]

A shot in the arm

Friday, August 13th, 2004

From WorldNetDaily: Paying for drinks with wave of the hand talks about Baja Beach Club in Barcelona (I go there all the time!) where they’re implementing an RFID chip-based payment/VIP pass system. Useful, as most of the time it seems the most suitable attire there would be nothing (I know I never know where […]

“Free Internet Telephony that Just Works”

Friday, August 13th, 2004

I’m getting quite into Skype. As always with this sort of thing, it’s of limited use until there’s a decent number of your contacts using it, but that’s boosted by the fact you can use it to call mobiles or even (gasp) landlines.

Lenses for your cameraphone

Thursday, August 12th, 2004

Another one dug up by good old Engadget: add-on lenses for your cameraphone. Might be quite interesting - in most cases, I doubt the quality of these can diminish the native lens quality by all that much. Certainly I don’t think it would on my MC60, anyway…

Nokia - Loudeye tie-in

Tuesday, August 10th, 2004

Engadget: Nokia taps Loudeye for wireless music downloads

1.4M Chinese chat with Barcelona’s Ronaldinho on internet

Monday, August 9th, 2004

So says Tribal Football. I remember doing internet chats for “stars” - how the hell do you organise a million and a half chatters?!

Aerial shots

Sunday, August 8th, 2004

Tom linked to some nice aerial photos on his site. The site’s in Korean, but the pictures do the talking, in case your Korean’s not up to snuff.

domi.co.uk has moved

Thursday, August 5th, 2004

I’ve now got this site running on my new server at Bytemark which I’ve been quite impressed with, so far. The only thing that I’ve noticed as a little slow is compilation of new stuff (I’m using Gentoo, so that’s obligatory) but what do you want with 64Mb?! That, of course, can be upgraded… Even […]

Mr Messi

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004

So, while I’m not convinced about Deco, Leo Messi really looks like the genuine article. One to watch for sure.

Hmmm, sexay!

Sunday, August 1st, 2004

Not bad, this Faria Alam bird, but not my type… googling for Faria.