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All images are back up and the site is functional again.
Theme Thursday – Frame
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I’ve been working on an assignment using Macromedia’s Flash MX2004.. I’ve seen nothing BUT frames all week!
Damn Smiley’s
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If you visited my site yesterday, you probably would have noticed a conspicuous loss of the left hand menu. This is what happened
While I know it’s really not a great browser, I do tend to use the MS Internet Explorer as my browser of preference when surfing the web. One of MSIE’s great failings is a lack of built in popup blocking, so as a result I also have the googlebar plugin added. As well as popup blocking, it also has a very handy page ranking thing on it.. but that is another story.
It was to my surprise that several days ago I got a popup blocked message from this very site. When it happened again the next day I decided to let the googlebar allow popup’s from this site. After several reloads later I got an ad for smiley’s.
SMILEY’S for fuck sake.
Now I make no bones about my distain for those god awful little graphics. I don’t have a problem with an ascii smiley :) and I tolerate the ones that launch up on my MSN but I can’t understand why anyone would need 1.2 million different emoticons to add to their email.
So, not only did I have an unexpected popup, making me think it was time to do a scan for spywear, but it was for the one thing that really irk’s me. Right clicking and getting the properties pointed the finger squarely back at bravenet who I had been using for quite a while to monitor site statistics, and although I had found a couple of better stats services, I continued to keep the counter there for “evaluation” purposes.
Not any more!
This site is hosted by Arachnet and is essentially posted on my “free” webspace. You know the deal, you get your internet access and they also give you an email account and some webspace.. Well, the amount provided for personal use is 20mb, and four years of posting photographs meant I was using 21mb of that 20 and .. yadda yadda.. When I uploaded the modified menu, not only was it blocked by an “over quota” message, but it replaced the menu file with a 0 byte file .. hence.. no menu.
No menu also meant no stats. So now I have an unusual dip in my visitors graph (I had 130 page loads last Friday from 89 different visitors.. Today I had 1 page load from 1 visitor – Me!)
Thankfully, this should be fixed today. Arachnet have agreed to give me another 10mb of disk space and I have taken down some of the non member images to get the menu working again. I just have to remember to put them up again later.
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Photo Friday – Parts
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For those who already knew I had a screw loose.
Theme Thursday – Ring
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I have been wanting to do this for a while and finally I have made a start. It’s another Photo meme to complement my weekly Photo Friday entry. So here it is, my first entry to Theme Thursday and this week is Ring
Ring, Ring.. Why don’t you give me a call?
Photoquest 5
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Flip has posted the challenge for this month, and here it is.
Your everyday shoesThese are the shoes I wear to work, to the shops.. generally anywhere. Alternatively, I could go for that faithful Australian staple of going barefoot. |
Your garden/balcony/pot plantI like having a low maintenance garden. It means I do satisfy my urges for horticulture without having to do the actual hard work. |
The toothpaste you useAnd this tube is just about empty. |
The fat you use for fryingGenerally I use a no thrills brand vegetable oil for my frying. If the cooking requires flavour then there is the extra virgin olive oil or the sesame oil. |
Your watering-canI usually get the hose out to water the pot plants, and the actual garden beds have reticulation, however I do keep a watering can, just for the kids to “help” |
Photo Friday – Play
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Time for music.
Photo Friday – Natural
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Natural curiosity of a child. Luca’s 1st Birthday
Domain Name
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I know this is probably late warning, but those of you who access these pages using the juslooken.com address rather than the direct arach.net.au/ address may have problems over the next day or two while I change my domain relegation company from the US one that I originally set this domain up with to an Australian one (can you believe it’s been 3 years already).
