Tuesday, 12 February 2002

Radio serial number - anyone know how to get a copy of the Radio serial number? Mine was obviously lost in the rebuild... 8:59:16 PM    Comments ()

:-) - I'm very happy to be back online! 8:57:16 PM    Comments ()

Google upset - It seems that the tempremental search engine that is Google has done it again. This time to me. Not too long after crowing about the success of the GoogleStak, I am sad to report that Google has "dropped an index" and gone back to some old index for my site. Does anyone know why? 8:56:55 PM    Comments ()

Hacked? - I think I may have been hacked, or wormed, or infected or something. My whole system failure began like a small snowball, rolling down a hillside. Gathering speed and weight as more and more snow attached itself to the initial mass - becoming massive! I recall a few blue screens very rare in Windows 2000. A router that could not connect to the ADSL modem. A Cold Fusion server that stopped working. An IIS service that stopped working. Then I couldn't install and uninstall software. Yikes - it went on and on. In the end I just pulled the plug - after finding that the metabase.bin file was missing! 8:51:52 PM    Comments ()

More blog reviews - Larry Chase in his monthly newsletter Larry Chase's Web Digest For Marketers makes these comments about blogs in reviewing Saltire. Blog. No, it's not a typo, it's a weblog, the anti-media self-published musings of the frequently disenchanted. Think satire dripping with apathetic honesty and without commercial interruption. Ironically, blogs are an increasingly popular news and information source for many of us. Here Steve MacLaughlin, frequently published technology observer, publishes insightful ponderings on technology and business, plus links to news and selected book reviews.   Try it. You just might like it as an alternative to your more mainstream news sources. You'll find links to the elite inner circle of other blog-heads, too.   8:45:24 PM    Comments ()

Creak, groan, and a spark - a spark of life that is. The C partition is now reformatted and reinstalled with Windows 2000. What a drag. What a chore. What a waste of a week or more! If I could make a suggestion for an enhancement to Windows - it would be to scrap the registry. Why can't all my applications, which I so painstakingly installed on another partition, continue to work after re-installing Windows? But the good news is - my Router [yes that unrelated piece of hardware] - now works again! 8:41:34 PM    Comments ()