Month: October 2006

Just upgraded the Mythbox to Xubuntu 6.10 (Edgy). To make it autologin and start X automatically, see the instructions in this PDF file, created by amalgamating two posts from this thread on ubuntuforums.

Decided to upgrade the mythbox – thinking the various bits that don’t work might start working. whoops nightmare! just got the gfx working after an hour, thanks to this post.

No, not weblog spam. Apparently, in 1,000 years time, the human race will have evolved. We’re all going to be between 6ft and 7ft, good looking, healthy and clever. Men will be broad shouldered, square jawed, deep voices and bigger penises. Women, will be smooth-skinned, glossy-haired, beautiful, with pert breasts and big eyes. Who says?… Continue reading Bigger penis?

Contextual ads (like those irritating inline ads which pop up when you hover over double-underlined words on any number of sites) and in this case Google text ads, can be interesting. Those irritating underline ads, usually because of the total lack of relevance to the word underlined, or anything else on the page for that… Continue reading It’s all about context

…particularly if your blog is running wordpress, or blogger, or typepad, or one of the off-the-shelf software or service blogs: don’t make people log in to add a comment*. *Obviously, there’s a caveat. If you’re Kotaku, or Scoble, or some other massive blog, then you can do it, because people will. But for your personal… Continue reading Top tip for blogs