Warmtoe is one of my (odder) pseudonyms, and I still use it today whenever I'm posting in the Dreamcast homebrew community web sites and forums. For a while I owned a URL associated with this name, specifically http://www.warmtoe.com - but now it contains some company's default parking page.
I wonder how many URLs these places hang on to - millions I shouldn't wonder. Is it possible, I wonder to find all of the URLs currently being parked in some way? I wonder what the most salable URL that is being parked.
Warmtoe.com is really not likely to be one of them, I know, but I just had to mark the demise of yet another 'webventure' along with http://www.mostboring.com and http://www.fantastic-sites.com (which I notice is now owned again - yachting?!)
30 April 2006
Google(W)hacking
I don't know if you are familiar with the concept of Googlewhacking - the art of finding a single hit on google for any 2 valid words, but, it occurred to me, that if you look at the whack-stack, which is a listing of the latest, current google whacks and include them in your web page, 2 things would happen.
- The googlewhack would become immediately invalid (well, if google ever looked at your page).
- Your page would get increased traffic because of the people retesting the whack.
Now, I am a big fan of Dave Gorman (I even paid to see his Googlewhack tour when it came through my town), and I don't want to ruin his idea, but theories are for testing, so, I'm going to test it.
If you were brought here because you tried a googlewhack and found 2 hits, please leave me a comment... Here goes...
- boudoirs wideawakeness (Laura)
- singlewides teleshop (Anonymous)
- spearfisher tomen (Laura)
- illusionless hydro (kainaM_ediciuS)
- teleshopper veal (Rachel M Woolcott)
Interesting, the people who find these are referred to as 'Hacks' - so I guess I'm hacking the hacks.
The Queen at 80
The British Queen is 80 - and there are no signs of her abdicating - but then, why would she bother? I mean, it's not like she's got a real job, is it, meeting people, going on 'state trips' (holidays) appearing on TV once a year, it's kind of a dream job.
The problem is, the example that she is setting and the fact that people in power will use the example she is setting to demonstrate to everyone else that they really can work forever.
I'm not against the Queen - I like the Royals in general - but I think it is time she recognized that all this staying in 'power' is going to cause the rest of the nation pain, it's time she retired and gave Prince Charles a crack of the whip.
Perhaps she is planning to retire already, she has got a pretty central London pad sorted.
The problem is, the example that she is setting and the fact that people in power will use the example she is setting to demonstrate to everyone else that they really can work forever.
I'm not against the Queen - I like the Royals in general - but I think it is time she recognized that all this staying in 'power' is going to cause the rest of the nation pain, it's time she retired and gave Prince Charles a crack of the whip.
Perhaps she is planning to retire already, she has got a pretty central London pad sorted.
29 April 2006
Finger Conspiracy
I think my fingers are trying to tell me something.
So, I'm working at my computer, trying to find a file on my hard disk. Unlike the youth of today, who would launch explorer and click on a button, I like to do this the old fashioned way, command prompt, directory listing etc etc.
For the uninitiated, the way one gets a directory listing (a list of files in a given folder) is to type in the DOS command, dir. Simple. But, I go to type that, and what actually comes out on the screen? Well, it was diet.
Now don't get me wrong, I can mistype with the best of them - but take a look at your keyboard, 'e' and 't' are on either side of the one letter I actually wanted, 'r'. So to achieve this particular mistype, my fingers had to do double the work - this cannot be a simple coincidence, I'm convinced my fingers are giving me a message.
It wouldn't be so bad if they weren't right - I do need to diet, and probably spend a great deal less time searching for files on my hard disk.
I wonder if I'm the only person on the planet with soothsaying digits...
So, I'm working at my computer, trying to find a file on my hard disk. Unlike the youth of today, who would launch explorer and click on a button, I like to do this the old fashioned way, command prompt, directory listing etc etc.
For the uninitiated, the way one gets a directory listing (a list of files in a given folder) is to type in the DOS command, dir. Simple. But, I go to type that, and what actually comes out on the screen? Well, it was diet.
Now don't get me wrong, I can mistype with the best of them - but take a look at your keyboard, 'e' and 't' are on either side of the one letter I actually wanted, 'r'. So to achieve this particular mistype, my fingers had to do double the work - this cannot be a simple coincidence, I'm convinced my fingers are giving me a message.
It wouldn't be so bad if they weren't right - I do need to diet, and probably spend a great deal less time searching for files on my hard disk.
I wonder if I'm the only person on the planet with soothsaying digits...
Retirement
Why is it that people retire to 'the countryside'?
It is truly beyond me - let us examine the facts - You retire when you get older (and given the way the British government is going, I mean older). As you get older, you get increasingly infirm. As you get increasingly infirm, you are going to have an increasing reliance on other people. In 'the countryside' there are decreasing numbers of people and increasing numbers of trees.
It seems to me, that when you retire, what you really need is infrastructure. Places to go, things to see (and I don't just mean trees) and a means by which to get to those places that is reliable and regular, in short, you need a city with reliable public transport (because at some point, there is no way you are going to let yourself get behind the wheel of a car).
Why then, is it not the case that people retire to 'the inner city'? People tell me it's because the cities are grimy, dangerous places - but what makes 'the countryside' so clean and safe? You can bet it's not the boggy fields and drunken tractor drivers.
The vision I have for my own future is to retire to a flat in the centre of London. The pure logic of this is obvious. The flat works, because I will need less space, the kids will have grown and flown the nest and, anyway, all those stairs are going to become a bit of a pain (It'll have to be a ground floor flat, granted). The centre of London makes sense because it has everything, Restaurants, Theatres, Museums, things to do, places to see. London has amazingly good public transport. Above all, London has people, lots of people. In addition to all of this, I will actually be able to afford somewhere central because I will have a lifetime of earnings to back me up (well, hopefully).
And hey, if I get some 'countryside' urge I can deal with that too. A minor wish to see a tree or bush can be satisfied by one of the big parks and, if it's a real craving for 'the great outdoors', I can book a 'not-city break' or just jump (well, hobble) onto a train.
You can keep you're retirement 'villages', it seems to me what we really should be aiming for is a retirement 'metropolis'.
It is truly beyond me - let us examine the facts - You retire when you get older (and given the way the British government is going, I mean older). As you get older, you get increasingly infirm. As you get increasingly infirm, you are going to have an increasing reliance on other people. In 'the countryside' there are decreasing numbers of people and increasing numbers of trees.
It seems to me, that when you retire, what you really need is infrastructure. Places to go, things to see (and I don't just mean trees) and a means by which to get to those places that is reliable and regular, in short, you need a city with reliable public transport (because at some point, there is no way you are going to let yourself get behind the wheel of a car).
Why then, is it not the case that people retire to 'the inner city'? People tell me it's because the cities are grimy, dangerous places - but what makes 'the countryside' so clean and safe? You can bet it's not the boggy fields and drunken tractor drivers.
The vision I have for my own future is to retire to a flat in the centre of London. The pure logic of this is obvious. The flat works, because I will need less space, the kids will have grown and flown the nest and, anyway, all those stairs are going to become a bit of a pain (It'll have to be a ground floor flat, granted). The centre of London makes sense because it has everything, Restaurants, Theatres, Museums, things to do, places to see. London has amazingly good public transport. Above all, London has people, lots of people. In addition to all of this, I will actually be able to afford somewhere central because I will have a lifetime of earnings to back me up (well, hopefully).
And hey, if I get some 'countryside' urge I can deal with that too. A minor wish to see a tree or bush can be satisfied by one of the big parks and, if it's a real craving for 'the great outdoors', I can book a 'not-city break' or just jump (well, hobble) onto a train.
You can keep you're retirement 'villages', it seems to me what we really should be aiming for is a retirement 'metropolis'.
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