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For fun, free and interesting programs, visit Voidspace Shareware. Support Voidspace and, Advertise Here. This is an archive page for the old Voidspace Blogs. The Blogspot | The Techie BlogFriday, June 27, 2003Hooray, jubilation, celibration.... at last I managed to get Blogger to archive by the month instead of by the week........ boring techie stuff ?? Well maybe - but at least you won't have so far to scroll the page !!! Anyway - talking of boring techie stuff (were we ?) :-Speaking to a few of my readers *cough* (well friends anyway) and they say they've given up on my blogs because of all the techie stuff I include. I figure the converse (good word huh !) might also be true - that folk who are interested in the techie stuff might not give a damn about the minutiae (how do you spell that one ?) of my love life.... (I'm getting married soon... nah nah ne nah nah... :-). Sooooooooo.... I'm doing a personal blog and a techie blog on this page............ wee ha... (I don't know which one to put website updates on though.... if I add a new article it feels kinda personal man.... *sigh*) Soooo....... in this blog there ought to be less weirdo geeky stuff... ain't that good news now :-) posted by Mike Foord on Friday, June 27, 2003
Thursday, June 26, 2003Still busy - sorry........... just more techie stuff to report :Based on the mini-itx shipset which include a pentium type processor and graphics chipset etc... these guys are building a 233mhz PDA sized PC.............. Nohrtec Mini-Servers posted by Mike Foord on Thursday, June 26, 2003
Wednesday, June 25, 2003Busy, busy - passing invoices that I missed last month, preparing for the wedding - inclding fending off the mother-in-law who wants to fly over from Israel to take over (and is trying to blackmail us into paying!!) and sorting out my new group for the Jesus Centre Project. I thought the 'church-beauracracy' was going to sweep away all my hard work - turned out I overreacted... but was a stressful couple of days.Anyway - onto boring PDA techie news............ The new version of windows is out....... and with it a rash of new PDAs - including upgrades to some I didn't even know existed. Looks like JVC is entering the PDA market as well - expect further price falls as competition continues to increase. A couple of months ago the Dell Axim X5 was a 'no-brainer' for my upgrade... but now the Viewsonic V36 is tempting and a few others as well........... The Register New PDA Article CNET PocketPC 2003 Article posted by Mike Foord on Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Saturday, June 21, 2003New article in the computer section and one in the 'esoteric' section as well :Automated Denial of Service This is an article about blurring the lines between the physical realms and the virtual realms. Both an interesting article about revenge on a 'spammer' and how 'virtual life' can cross over into 'real life'. Introduction to Cyber Magic The internet puts people all across the globe in touch with each other - instantaneously, virtually and magically ? For many magic is all about the connection of consciousness and here Philip Farber explores how that might be true across the internet. posted by Mike Foord on Saturday, June 21, 2003
Friday, June 20, 2003flippin' archives in blogger do my head in....Whats the HTML code for a 'bullet list' ? anyone remember ? posted by Mike Foord on Friday, June 20, 2003
  The second one is funny... not only because I'm dependant on caffiene - but because if I had to switch to decaf it probably would be more convenient just to change *all* the coffee over. Does that reveal a bit more about my character than it ought to... oops........... As an aside - my Jewish Grandfather (who was a bit of a snob) used to call Decaffinated Coffee - 'le cafe castre'.... coffee with the balls cut off !! On the subject of which (being Jewish - not having your balls cut off) - I'm reading Schindlers list again. Its very well written and very disturbing. I reccommend it, as if that counts for anything though :-) posted by Mike Foord on Friday, June 20, 2003
Thursday, June 19, 2003Here's a nice url. It shows all the traffic statistics for Voidspace.... more people use it than you might think.....posted by Mike Foord on Thursday, June 19, 2003
Monday, June 16, 2003Ever have trouble with your computer at work ? Heres some advice from the IT dept. to hep you sort it out :Fuchsia's Advice from the IT Dept. posted by Mike Foord on Monday, June 16, 2003
 You can see some more at Heathers Photopage. I included this to show her its possible to include pictures in blogger - the picture you see here is just linking to the picture on her website. posted by Mike Foord on Monday, June 16, 2003
Sunday, June 15, 2003Well, at long last I've done the update for Babak Memari that I've been promising him. He's an Iranian gentleman who had problems with his last ISP and who's pages of useful links are now hosted here at Voidspace. The new version used 'includes'... it looks very similar... but is much more neatly coded and easier for Babak to update and edit........The First Version The New Babak-Memari Website Now, I haven't properly tested it yet - so there might still be some of the internal links not working. When I've tested it properly I'll copy it over so that its all under the first link. I found a nice utility called 'periscope' that will check all the links on a website to see if there are any dead ones. It produces a nice output - telling you which page the error occurrred on. It also doubles as an anti-hacker tool. Periscope Download Page I've just used it on Voidspace to correct a lot of the internal link errors..... I always thought that the existing internet system was a bit 'geriatric' or something. When you look for a webpage by IP address (the numbers the internet uses to address computers) then effectively it looks in a big telephone directory to see how to get there. If you change something then the internet takes a few days to update these directories on its 'routers' all across the network. I thought it would make much more sense for the IP address (the numebrs) to actually tell the net *how* to direct the packets..... a bit more like a grid reference than a telephone number. Anyway - I'm sure its not as easy as that.... but it turns out there is a more up to date version of the Internet - called Ipv6 (we're currently on v4 I think... as to what happened to v5.... ??). Eventually we're all going to be using that system and the military are starting to switch their gear across - they reckon it will happen commercially by about 2008................... Heres a short Wired News article about it : Pentagon to Use New Net Protocol. Heres a little article about how the arrival of broadband in the home is letting the internet *really* develop its potential : At Last, the Web Hits 100 MPH. posted by Mike Foord on Sunday, June 15, 2003
Thursday, June 12, 2003For PDA junkies (like me) the following CNET article is very interesting. Its about the next step in replacing flash memory (the sort of memory that keeps it's contents when its switched off). Apparently flash memory is getting harder to shrink any further and is also quite slow - this article mentions three alternatives - but particularly the advances made in MMRAM.... magnetic memory. Interesting....... Of course this is all leading to the stage wjhere we all carry 'micro-computers' that are permanently 'online'... perhaps even communicating with each other as we (the host) pass in the street - completely oblivious to what these machines are up to........ There are already plans to put microchips in clothing...... hee hee......IBM, Infineon tout magnetic memory posted by Mike Foord on Thursday, June 12, 2003
Wednesday, June 11, 2003My goodness......... another few updates - some of which I've been meaning to do for ages. I've put the Tractatus on with Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations in the Psychology section (*phew* that was a long breath). Added a couple of books to the Gibson section and a very interesting article in the Jung section - actually a scan of a newspaper article on Jung and the new age. I can't remember if I've done anything else (hey - its late..) but thats enough for one evening ;-)posted by Mike Foord on Wednesday, June 11, 2003
  I've also put a guestbook online :
Probably keep it as I haven't wrapped my tiny little mind around getting CGIs to work yet. We had our 'agape' yesterday. Thats our weekly meal together for the committed in my 'church household'. Every Tuesday these meetings happen all across the UK in my Church - kind of a family time for us. I was sitting and looking at the bunch in my household (qbout 40 of us) - and amazed fthat for a religion that is aging and dying - about 60% of the people there were 15-35, and for a religion that has a reputation for being effeminised and has trouble attracting men - 60% of us were male.... Nice - made me feel proud to be part of it. posted by Mike Foord on Wednesday, June 11, 2003
Tuesday, June 10, 2003My google pagerank has slipped from 4 down to zero or even 'not rated'..... whats going on - don't theylike me anymore ? I thought 4 was ok.... but most of my pages aren't even rated anymore... gits... thats after I've had more traffic than ever as well.The number of visitors is fluctuating wildly - on Sunday it was about 50.... on Monday 150.... I guess people get bored at work and go exploring. I've made a few minor changes, updated Luke's homepage and added some missing names to the friends page. Nothing spectaclyar. Even tried another guestbook... to no avail. posted by Mike Foord on Tuesday, June 10, 2003
Monday, June 09, 2003If it doesn`t work out theres always divorce...........I wish blogger had smilies. ( [geek alert]I could always upload some to my site and point to them I suppose[/geek alert] ). Sometimes emotions are just too trite to be expressed in words B-) Anyway - I asked my girlfriend to marry me - she said yes *sigh* Thats gone and done it. I could waffle on about lots of other things - but it doesn't really seem relevant. I asked her on castle hill Cambridge - which was where my Dad asked my Mum... hee hee - I`m an old fool really. (I can't claim credit though - my brother asked his girlfriend there as well and it seemed like to cool an idea not to do it). I spent some time with the aged parents as well - and they're ok. Falling apart at the seams a little bit - but in good spirits. Oh - and I saw Matrix Reloaded and thought the prententious philosophy bits were pants - but the rest was ok... not a patch on the original - but thats to be expected I suppose. Visually stunning of course. posted by Mike Foord on Monday, June 09, 2003
Tuesday, June 03, 2003I`ve gone down to number 46 in the cyberpunk top 100 sites..... I used to be number 5 or something *sigh*.................posted by Mike Foord on Tuesday, June 03, 2003
Monday, June 02, 2003 Isn`t that great....... *sigh* its a sad day... I lost all hope of catching up with reading my e-mail newsletters and just deleted about thirty of them that were hanging around in my inbox........ One e-mail I get regularly, thgat only takes a couple of seconds to read, is my word of the day. Ahhhhhhhhhh, its the little things in life that make it bearable. Todays word was prestidigitation \pres-tuh-dij-uh-TAY-shuhn\, noun: Skill in or performance of tricks; sleight of hand. Now where can I slip that into conversation........... posted by Mike Foord on Monday, June 02, 2003
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