I recently got a 30″x20″ print done at Photobox while they had a special offer, but now that I’ve come to buy a clip frame for it, I can’t seem to find a 30″x20″ frame. All frames seem to be metric. There is one size close (750 x 500mm), but it would mean trimming an unacceptable amount off the photo and losing part of the border on the print. (30″x20″ is 762 x 508mm)
30″x20″ is a standard photo size, so why does no-one make a frame to suit?
Following my last post on open wireless access points, have a look at this article by Dick Morrell.
The growth and convenience of shopping on the internet is dampened by one major problem: the goods have to somehow get from them to you.
The problem is that in order to pay for your purchases, you have to earn a living at your job. This means you’re out of the house during the day, precisely when the post office or courier try to deliver to your house.
So, why not have it delivered to another address I hear you say, perhaps your place of work? Unfortunately, the rise in credit card fraud has put paid to that – several internet retailers refuse to deliver to anywhere other than the cardholder’s address.
What is required is for the credit card companies to allow you to register a second authorised address on your credit card account to which deliveries can be made.
On a short walk with my WiFi enabled Palm recently, I was amazed to find so many open wireless access points.
While some of these are in residential areas, most surprising was the number of businesses leaving themselves wide open. Whoever had set them up had gone as far as changing the SSID to the business name (making it even easier to see where the signal was coming from) but had failed to enable even simple security.
No doubt, these businesses will have a firewall on their internet connection, but having an open wireless access point is like leaving the back door to the shop open.
I drove past the new Spirit of Sport sculpture next to the Reebok Stadium this morning.
For something that’s supposed to be 21ft higher than the Angel of the North, it doesn’t look very tall, although the Angel of the North is raised up on a hill, rather than stuck in the middle of a roundabout.
Add to that the fact that this has cost over 300,000 pounds, not including the numerous times Bolton Council have dug up the surrounding road, changing the dual carriageway to three lanes and now back to two, causing traffic chaos and delays in the process. This, at a time when the council are whinging that they are 400,000 pounds short on the roads budget. No doubt, someone will point out that the money for the sculpture has come from some different pot, but it doesn’t solve the fact that money has been wasted on the surrounding roads for this.
Here’s an interesting article about using Damn Small Linux on an old laptop.
Not tried it yet but will soon.
Just checked and all my joker.com websites have come back.
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After further digging, it appears that this problem is a network issue:
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Today on joker.com’s website is the following:
Our Web site as well as our system will undergo a scheduled maintenace [sic] at 11.00 UTC on November, 27th. It will take approximately two (2) hours. Your domains will be resolvable as usual.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Your Joker.com team
So, I don’t know whether anything went wrong but none of the domains I have registered with joker.com will resolve to URLs to which they are forwarded. It looks like none of Joker’s servers are performing the URL forwarding.
