Scott Rutherford

Just been flicking through the cartoons at xkcd.com again and came across this one which made me chuckle:

Also found the GeoHashing, Spontaneous Adventure Generator to be very interesting idea. Check it out.

Just a quick thing, on the off chance that anybody reading this has got a bit of value out of the FCKeditor plugin or from Ajax / Active Scaffold; and maybe thought of donating something (unlikely I know, its not all that!!) or saying thanks, here is the opportunity:

Sponsor my sister on something (Cancer Research) that means a lot to our family (for the why just read what my sister wrote):

Race For Life

Thanks for listening.

Just installed the new Firefox 3 RC1. Very cool. Seems to be very fast and stable. I had an instant and very positive reaction to it – mostly because there has been no visible slow down in the rest of the computer since I opened it (not something I could say about FF2). Well worth a play.

I like the default look and feel too, very clean. Good job guys.

Further to the DDOS attack turns out that they had managed to create 43,046 trackbacks before it was stopped – so much for Akismet, or is it Typo – actually thats probably a little unfair considering I haven’t updated in a while!!

Anyway its still going on, I’ve just turned them off on the blog and set the server to deny all access to any url containing ‘trackback’. What a pain in the arse these bots / people are.

• God exists
• There are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
• Afganistan is now a much better place
• Our destinies are controlled by the movements of the celestial bodies
• The world is flat
• President Bush deserves to be in power
• Life coaches are qualified to do what they do
• The internet is a series of tubes
• Religion is a good thing
• There are fairies at the bottom of the garden

Thanks to Richard Dawkins for reminding me I do have some reasonable opinions!!

I got my first batch of cards from Moo today and they are great. I can’t recommend the site enough. The product is neat – any image you like form your Flickr account on the back of a business (ish) card, the user experience is brilliant, and the result is pretty high quality – all for $25 for 100. Brilliant…..

You can also do Skype cards, get ten for free using the ‘freebie’ code.

So been away, had a great time, come back to over 1,000 spam trackbacks from porn sites on my blog, really really not good. My apologies to anyone who may have had to wade through that offensive crap to read any of the plugin bits and pieces. I have now disabled trackbacks which should stop it. But, of course prevents anyone genuine from using a great feature of blogging.

So I’m off for a long weekend on the infamous EasyCruise boat. We are sailing from Nice (one of my favourite French cities) to Cannes, St Tropez and finally Monacco. All in the short space of 4 days. So, please excuse the lack of response to any comments posted during that time. Normal service will be resumed next week.

Bon weekend tout le monde.

There has been a lot of action in the online gaming sector recently. Company officers arrested, share prices decimated, its been very exciting, if a little inexplicable. Apparently it could actually bring about the end of civilisation as we know it.

Personally, I feel this whole thing is ridiculous. Lets take Partygaming. Most of games they provide are online tournaments. You pay a fixed entry fee to participate in a competitive event. So it seems that if that is immoral and dangerous then any event that accepts money into a prize pool has to be banned too.

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I was pointed a the customer reviews of this product on Amazon last week by a friend of mine (Richard Hill), and they are well worth spending a couple of minutes browsing, some of them are genius.

According to the New Tork Times it all started like this:

- ’ “We don’t hate Amazon; we just thought it was funny,” said Jeffrey Gates, 21, of Hopatcong, N.J., who along with a 27-year-old friend, Neal Strassner of Daytona Beach, Fla., kicked things off on July 20 by posting their own reviews.

They then posted images of their comments, along with a call for followers and a pulsating back beat, at ytmnd.com, a site that breeds send-ups of pop culture. (The pair’s page is at awesomemilk.ytmnd.com.)

The response was good, but a link from the blog Boing Boing on Friday blew the lid off. ‘

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