I need say no more. Order now. Read more at the BBC

Do you want to get on the Blackstone beta? Find out more information?

Go keep an eye on Tim Buntel’s blog.

Ray has updated his Blog to version 3.5.1. Includes MS ACCESS fix and a MoveableType importer written by Sean Corfield.

Will be updating this to 3.5.1 tonight or tomorrow.

The new version of office-humour.co.uk is now live and running smoothly (touch wood!), it seems to also be a lot quicker.

For more details check out the about page.

On another note an interesting CPU article and making CFMX “fly”.

The latest, and in my opinion very good, campaign from WASP (Web Standards Project) is Browse Happy. Basically it tells you why you shouldn’t use IE and how all the other browsers, Mozilla, Safari, Opera and Firefox (which I use) are all superior, nicer and better.

Try a new browser today!

Been doing a lot of domain name migration and messing about lately and have needed some web based tools to check up on them. Here for your use are some I’ve been playing with.

• www.all-nettools.com – Whois, ping, traceroute
• www.dnsreport.com
• www.samspade.org
• www.123-reg.co.uk – Get all domains through this lot, very good, free changes

A web design one here that’s very useful if you’re trying to find matching and complimentary colours etc. Check out EasyRGB.com

On one of my sites we’ve been noticing a lot of broken pipe errors and connection reset messages. At first we couldn’t find a problem, we’ve since worked out it’s due to the cfcontent tag.

It seems that if the connection falls for any reason a broken pipe error is being given to the application.log / server.log

We’re using the page for dynamic document serving by the way. The fix which seems to have solved the problem is to put an empty cfcatch round the cfcontent, now although this is a hack it stops the errors.

Not that good but it prevents the log file getting huge!

OK then, all the archives are now imported and working. Please note though the formatting may be a bit messed up, mainly line breaks missing and maybe some broken images. I will get round to fixing these when I get some time.

Also if you’ve got old links, for example, /news/000086.cfm, through some funky magic you’ll automatically be popped over to /go/000086 which is an alias to the actually location of the page. Nice hey?

The categories have been changed around a bit and the “Cam Pics” category gone completely, all the aliases should still work though.

Enjoy.

I’ve noticed loads of people are trying to browse the posts from the old site, which are still listed in Google. I’m going to look at getting these back asap. Need to work out if I’m going to repost them and create links, or just recreate the old pages.

Watch this space, they’ll be back up soon…

If you’ve got a Kenwood Z838W head unit you may have noticed that the backlight will
keep inverting which, no doubt, is driving you mad. Well not anymore. It’s a feature that
Kenwood say is designed to save the life of the screen, fair enough, but if you want to
stop it you can, it can be disabled by a specific reset sequence.

The Sequence

1. Turn unit to “ALL OFF” source mode
2. Hold down the 1 and AM buttons
3. Press the reset button
4. Keep holding 1 and AM until the unit reset’s
5. Done.