Archive for the ‘WWW’ Category

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Sunday, August 1st, 2010

After a long while not bothering to update WordPress, when I finally got around to installing version 3.1, which I had to do manually, as the automated updated didn’t work (it hasn’t worked in months). Immediately after running the (required) database update, I began getting 500 errors on the site. Not good. (more…)

I write like…

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

…William Shakespeare. Well, according to I Write Like‘s analysis of my last post, anyway… (more…)

A suggestion for Google…

Friday, May 21st, 2010

I just had an idea for Google.  So, naturally, I did a Google search on “How to I make a suggestion for Google?”.  The top page told me the answer – but it wasn’t on Google’s site!  Anyway, turns out that their is where to put it.

My suggestion? Quite simple. I wanted to type “about:config” in the URL bar, but forgot the colon. I thought it would be kinda neat if Google said “Did you mean about:config?”.

…And we are back!

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

My regular readers (all both of you) may have noticed that Esotechnica has been offline. I’m sure your curiosity has been insatiable, so why the outage?

That’s easy.

I messed it up.

One control panel – many sites. Too much wine, one wrong click…

Safe to say I won’t be doing that again!

Video on demand

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

Video on demand services seem to have sneaked up while I wasn’t looking and implanted themselves all over the web. First of all, there’s the disarmingly simple-looking Seesaw, a recent launch from the broadcast services company Arqiva (by “broadcast services”, I mean they own/run transmitters, digital radio multiplexes and so on). Seesaw perhaps doesn’t have the range of programmes that other services do, but it does a clutter-free interface well, along with high-quality compression (the “low quality” 500kb/sec still looks pretty impressive) (more…)