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Nominate have sorted the issue with the ilikejam.org domain, so the DNS update should be propogating now. As such, www.ilikejam.org will soon be pointing to the Apache install on my Linux Mac Mini, and this will be the last post on www.ilikejam.dsl.pipex.com.
I'll start tearing down the site once I'm sure the DNS update went OK, but various pages will live on for a bit, while I import them into Movable Type.
Update your bookmarks: ILikeJam is dead. Long live ILikeJam.

I've imported all the entries from here into my Movable Type installation. If you ever need to kill, say, 5 hours one day; this is a terrible way to do it.
Just need to create pages for the 'article' type stuff (like the Audiophile page, the Unix Runlevels etc), and we're good to go. Unfortunatley, Nominate's control panel for the ilikejam.org domain appears to be borked, so I can't switch DNS over to my home DSL at the moment.

So I was on Digg the other day, and I heard that Movable Type is going Open Source, so I downloaded it (and installed Apache and MySQL) and I'm playing about with it on my desktop machine. It's pretty impressive; both in how easy it is to set up, and what it can do.
I'm thinking, therefore, about using it in place of the venerable HTML hack-up you see before you.
All I need to do is find a style that's not yet another "Web2.0 - paster-colours - drop-shadow - gray-on-white-text - ground-reflections etc." look that I'm becoming really fucking sick of seeing all over the place. You know what I'm talking about.

Update: Sod it. The 'Minimalist Grey' style looks pretty good, so that's what I'm going to use. Gray on gray text or no.

Under no circumstances should anyone, anywhere, start playing Bejewled. It is insidious, addictive, and evil. My highscore is 33470.

If you ever get the chance to get out of bed at 4:30am, drive to Glasgow airport, get on a plane at 7, land at Luton at 8, hire a car, drive 10 miles through roadworks on the M1, sit in a conference room for 6 hours being talked at about your company's 'vision', drive 10 miles through roadworks down the M1, ditch the hire car, wait in Luton airport for 2 hours, get on a plane at 6pm, land in Glasgow at 7, and drive home: don't.
However, hello to the insanely cute (polish?) girl doing the hire car returns. Your patter was the only highlight of an otherwise hideous day.

Unfortunately I'm forced to use a Windows machine as my desktop box at work. This causes me pain. Things that would be a two minute job (like burning ISO images to DVD) take an age, and require the installation of third party software. I miss select-to-copy and middle-click-paste. Creating Word documents isn't scriptable. Applications put user data on the C: drive. It's a mess.
I have lessened the pain somewhat with the use of some choice apps:
- Dexpot (virtual desktops and hotkey desktop switching).
- WinKey (key bindings to launch apps).
- X-Win32 (X server).
- Cygwin (BASH and various Unix tools).
After installing all that crap, Windows is just about usable. I can Ctrl-Tab between a fullscreen CDE session and a Windows desktop, and I can operate in a relatively mouse-less way most of the time.

On the upside though, I've had a chance to test that Java web server I was working on a while back (it's still not finished, but I intend to get back into it soon). I'm surprised to report that it works just fine on Windows with Sun's Java installed. I was expecting all kinds of hassle with path seperators etc, but it's all handled very gracefully. Nice.

xkcd has nicked my idea.
Except he got the syntax right.

But never mind all that. Tell me, why is there an Uncyclopedia article on Jordanhill Station? Perhaps even more disturbingly, there's a real writeup on Wikipedia - a writeup which cites 23 references.
As they say in some corners of the Interweb, LOL WUT?

So I'm watching The Antiques Roadshow one Sunday, while stuffing my face with delicious chicken, and there's a bit on Thomas Chippendale. Bear with me.
Basically, according to the old-stuff boffins at the afore mentioned Roadshow, he's only really famous because of one thing.
He released a book of drawings of his furniture.
Apparently, that's it. Don't get me wrong, he was a choice chippy, but the thing that made him the legend that he is, is his book.
Could this be the first example of successful Open Source in a modern(ish) commercial market? At the time his peers though he was utterly mental for releasing publicly, to anyone who cared to pick up his book, what would normally be considered trade secrets.
Sounds pretty familiar...

I'm taking suggestions for the most annoying advert on TV.
Top of the list at the moment is the Mercedes C-Class ad.
Soundbytes from a 'design team' seemingly composed of utter tossers, spouting off such cringe-inducing shite as "lets do it!" and "I'll see your idea and raise it!".
Seriously, who says things like this? Who sits in a meeting, and comes out with "I'll see your idea and raise it"?
To be honest, it wouldn't bother me that much, but the look of the C-Class is a bit, umm, uninspiring. Actually, maybe that really is what the design meetings were like. A collection of pretentious uber-wanks vying to out-do each other with ever more smug snippets of verbal ponce.

God I hate that advert.

I'm late to the party again, but I just found Behind The Counter, and it's really interesting. My dearest mother is the sort who takes 8 oranges back to Sainsbury's, cause one's got a dent in it, and complains because Morrisons don't stock the same variety of cheese that Safeway did before they were bought out. At least she always has the receipt...

Also, and this has annoyed me for a while, when I'm reading blogs or forums (fora?) by default I assume the writer / poster is male, only to have my mental construct of the person shattered when it turns out that he is a she.
Does anyone else get this? Do women assume the author is female, and men male? Or is it just me?
It's just me isn't it?
Yeah.