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Sun, Jul. 19th, 2009, 03:29 pm
I found a way and have put it into a five step process for anyone to use. Click for a Five Step Process to Random Banner Selection Examples of this code in action can be seen by reloading the pages on my LJ, kaylashay81. I currently have six different banners to rotate out on my LJ and I'm working on more.Sun, Jul. 19th, 2009, 08:48 am
I'd strongly recommend this to anyone who likes science fiction. Sat, Jul. 18th, 2009, 08:25 pm
But why does Brian Pickle Lawn Mowers?July 18, 2009 in Random geeking "Password too weak"? StumbleUpon must have a *lot* of inactive accountsSo I just tried to throw a link up on StumbleUpon to, you know, something cool I found on the Internet. Couldn't log in to my account (actually, can't remember ever creating one but hey, I must have at some point.) Create an account...fine. Go through the usual CAPTCHA bullshit...fine (I guess). Create a password. "Password is too weak". Well, maybe. It's an unguessable string of non-word letters but whatever. I substitute some numbers for letters. "Password is too weak". Still? OK, got a solution for that common obstacle too. I switch an "a" for an ampersand. "Password can only contain numbers and letters". WTF? As far as I can work out, the only way to get a password that meets StumbleUpon's fairly unusual "strength" requirement is to arbitrarily uppercase some of the letters. So I do that. Now I have a password I'll never, ever remember, and suddenly I realise why logging on didn't work in the first place. I needed a password, that couldn't contain anything except numbers or letters, that was stronger than a meaningless string of numbers and letters. It reminds me of nothing so much as a line from the Simpsons - "I want all my groceries in one bag, but I don't want that bag to be heavy". Quite. I wonder how many dead StumbeUpon accounts I've created and then been unable to get back in to in the past? Must be quite a few. Can't just be me. And why would I even care if someone went to the trouble of hacking my (now necessarilly one-time) StumbleUpon account anyway? July 18, 2009 in Random geekingComments (0) Sat, Jul. 18th, 2009, 06:47 pm
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Fri, Jul. 17th, 2009, 10:12 pm
Exactly what is Google Translate’s Persian ALPHA aligning on? I only ask, because in their translation of BBCPersian’s Wimbledon coverage, they used the phrase “Grand acatalectic achieve”. And a reader who had Had His Say was translated as “Mahmoud ensiform”. The recorded radio programs in Dari (or “language of mosquitos”, if you’re reading the translation) are called “Matutinal a”, “Matutinal two” and “Vespertine”. Fri, Jul. 17th, 2009, 11:36 am
Ad targetting error #145,772Here's an article from satirical online newspaper Daily Mash which, frankly, takes the piss out of muslims by reporting a call by by President Sarkozy for sexier burkas. Rather wonderfully, the ad-targeting software accompanies this with a Clickmuslim dating MPU and and a Google ad for TheHijabShop.com... July 17, 2009 in AdvertisingComments (0) Pig chimneyIncidentally the forecasts I've seen for the economic consequences of a swine flu pandemic appear to grossly understate the likely impact on business. In the event that 100,000 people a day fall genuinely ill over August anyone who fancies an extra week off in the sunshine will simply claim to have gone down with swine flu too. (Try getting a sick-note out of the NHS during a swine flu pandemic - there will simply be no way to distinguish the genuinely sick from the malingerers.) July 17, 2009 in Comments (0) Knock knockQ: What happened when "almost all" news websites charged for their content?A: People visited the other ones. July 17, 2009 Comments (0) Fri, Jul. 17th, 2009, 03:22 pm
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Thu, Jul. 16th, 2009, 03:53 pm
Is it permitted to cycle in Christ Church Meadow? In general, any tips for a first-time road-cyclist in Oxford? Thanks! Thu, Jul. 16th, 2009, 09:08 am
Wed, Jul. 15th, 2009, 11:17 pm
A slightly odd question following a phone discussion I had earlier this evening - are there any really good art galleries in the Midlands? We couldn't think of any but maybe we were missing somewhere embarrassingly obvious. Wed, Jul. 15th, 2009, 02:07 pm
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The year my little sister was 6 we had a great drought and a plague of ladybirds1 -- perhaps that was traumatic in some way. I can't remember much about the year I myself was 6, but I remember hardly anything of my early years. Does this all just sound like so much bibble, or does it strike a curious chord in anyone? 1 Actually, there was a traumatic incident connected with the ladybirds, now I think about it. Wed, Jul. 15th, 2009, 09:16 am
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ION: had busy-but-enjoyable weekend (did lots of work; went to the Tate on Saturday evening where they have a huge table-&-chairs, very Alice, and where I got to go look at the Pollock again, although not the Rothkos as they're off somewhere else; went to the RFH to hear ![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small} kake's choir sing, also v good). Am desperately trying to catch up with work, which is *happening* but means I am a bit wild-eyed around the edges. (I'm also sadly behindhand on correspondence of all sorts. My apologies to all who this might affect.) BTW, does anyone want a bookcase? Argos flatpack (well, was flatpack, has been in assembled state for some years now), but reasonably solid & still in good nick. Glade tomorrow! Tue, Jul. 14th, 2009, 08:03 pm
At Readercon (as in other venues) I was caught up in a conversation about Coincidence, and divination, prophetic dream, and all that class of experience, which it was generally agreed is only a function of noting or selecting from out of the vast and pelting river of experience those few items that are of interest to us, which stand out only because we note them. I say it was agreed, but (as usual) somewhat dutifully, and even sadly. Anyway today I was reading the Advance Reading Copy of Nicholson Baker's new book, which I'm to review, which is about a poet who is devoted to rhyme, and on an early page he quotes from Edward Lear, "The Pelican Chorus": "Plumpskin, Ploshkin, pelican jill. We think so then, we thought so still." Then later in the day I open the new TLS and there in the "NB" snippets section, there's the same, quoted at slightly greater length, and differently punctuated: Ploffskin, Pluffskin, Pelican jee! We think no birds as happy as we! Plumpskin, Ploshkin, Pelican jill! We think so then, and we thought so still!" So if any of you have recently been reading, or remembering, or thinking about, or opening an old childhood book (Nonsense Songs and Stories) and your eye falling on just that exact poem then we will have one of those astonishing, amazing coincidences, that wow must mean something, but what? Nabokov called coincidence "A piece of pattern for which there is no use" -- or something -- can anyone correct that for me? |
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