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Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
by Mark
What appears to be going on?
I have noticed recently that anything that I install is just not showing up on the start menu, even though the installation options are set to creating a link on the start menu, same goes for the quicklaunch for that matter.
What O/S’s appear to be affeced?
From what I can tell, it appears to be Vista only, and it is not as though I am only checking i with cheap applications or applications created by a small firm or someting as I have attempted with recently released games such as Brothers in Arms.
Is there any fix for this?
I have not currently found a fix but I am currently looking for one, I will be sure to post a blog entry about it and explaining how to do the fix for it, once I know. If you do know of a way to resolve this issue then please let me know via coment or email!
Jibber Jabber for life!
- Mark
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
by Mark
I can’t help but notice that there has been a huge increase of spam comments that I have received i the last month or so. My current amount of unchecked comments currently sits at 1,746 and I really cannot be bothered to go through all of those comments right now, so I have just left them.
Maybe I should check the wordpress website to see if there is some kind of plugin…. just checked the site, and there is - and it has compeltely cleared up all of my existing comments. Wahoo!
End of rant then :P.
Saturday, September 6th, 2008
by Mark
It would seem that I have now officially been deemed a nerd.
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
by Mark
Hey guys,
Just thought that I would write a small blog post to let you guys know that I will be attending the airshow today at Lowestoft, my marverlous home town *coughs and laughs*.
If any of you go there, or already have been (if its now friday or saturday), you should send me some pictures in and I will post them in a blog post on Sunday! 
Hope all of you that attend enjoy it and for those of you who are not - I hope that you have a wonderful day!
Geekin’ it out!
The Krammeh of LTC!
Friday, July 11th, 2008
by Mark
Hey guys,
The last time that I wrote I was classed as 20 years old, I am now 21 years old!
It was a bit of a reality check for me I think. It has made me do a lot of thinking. A heck of a lot.
I have decided that computers, are dangerous (dont ask!).
I think I am going to get a job in security (also dont ask).
I think I’ll write a post later, not in the mood tbh.
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
by Mark
I thought it was about time that I acutally bought myself a domain that actually makes more sense.
For those of you that don’t know, Krammeh is my online nickname. Going to keep the current logo as I love it! haha!
Ramdonice.co.uk is going to becoming what blog.liveotcruise.net was going to be!
I will write more later, working with domains at the moment!!
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
by Mark
I am going to be setting up a blog where anybody that is a LTC Member or friend can either register and become a bloger, or you can use the WordPress port system that I am going to be creating.
The idea is, any blog post that I (or another contributer) writes will get automatically ported over to http://blog.livetocruise.net (not yet setup) and will be posted there (atleast, a preview) and a link going back to the main blog post, so users can comment and such. Or, you can just write directly into the blog.livetocruise.net blog!
I am hoping that contributers will blog atleast once per week although I have and will be trying to post once every day or so! There will be no limit to the amount that people can post of course!
I think I am going to be using the WicketPixie WordPress theme released by Chris Pirillo!
I will be posting more later!
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
by Mark
I was reading Chris Pirillo’s blog today and watched the video that he recorded on his views about who owns the comments on blogs/youtube or such other services. I liked the topic so I thought that I would write a little blog entry about it - and state my thoughts on the matter!
My first thought would be that the writer of the comment would be the owner of the comment, as they are the one that created the original content! There are some people that say the person that is hosting the comment (youtube, blog owner or suchlike) would be the one that owns the comment, due to the fact that you’re using their space - but I strongly disagree with this due to the fact that if you park your car on a public car park it does not belong to the owner of the car park, after all - you’re also using their space… So it is a very similar situation (just with physical objects rather than virtual objects).
What you also have to think about it that not all comments are completely unique, in the way that if you were to comment a blog saying ‘I completely agree, I think the same‘, chances are that someone else has already written the same content on another website/service (or possibly be the same website/service) before you have. Does this mean that you’re in breach of copy right? Does this mean that you co-own the comment?
You also have to think about the fact that the content gets cached around other websites due to search indexing and quotations (if someone was to quote your blog entry in their blog, so they can write a reply to it and possibly send you a link back). Does this mean that they are also in breech of copyright or similar laws? Even though you write where the respective author originates and give them full credit for their content? It also gets cached in search engines like google and yahoo and many many more - they don’t ask you if they are allowed to download and save your content- although you can use a robots.txt file to disallow them, They don’t ask permission first - should this really be allowed?
My opinion is the fact that the person that wrote the content is the person that owns it, whether its a comment, blog post, entry in an online diary system or any other kind of content.
Friday, June 20th, 2008
by Mark
Yes, that’s right - I am actually going to be writing a post about my thoughts on FireFox 3!
My first thoughts were the fact that the installation was rather… old looking - and I thought that it was going to be a lot more intuitive than previous installation versions. But it did install without any issues (even on VISTA!).
My next thought was that it loaded up a hell of a lot faster than previous versions of FireFox - which I thought was pretty awesome.
After loading it up - I thought wow, it looks really nice & clean. With previous versions of FireFox I thought it looked rather cluttered and bulky. I also fell in love with the “bookmark this page” even though I prefer to use my own custom PHP generated homepage, I still liked this feature.
For me the loading time of pages is extensively faster than Internet Explorer - although they still have that nasty “render while loading” effect - where you seen like it put the page together. I hate that, I would much prefer it to just….. wait for it all to download and then show me the page. But, at the speed that FireFox 3 actually loads the page, what have I got to complain about?
Switching between tabs seems a lot speedier than with previous versions of FireFox and also with Internet Explorer - but maybe that is just my imagination - who knows!
Anyway, I hear that Tribe over at SlashSwirl.info is going to be making a blog post about his thoughts on FireFox 3 and is also going to be posting a top 5 list of Addons for FireFox in the near future - be sure to check that out!
- M, Jibber Jabber for life!
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
by Mark
I’m not feeling too well, started coming down with something yesterday - maybe the night before. Had a bit of the sniffles.
Now I’ve got a fully-pleged cold, sore throat & a very tight chest. Meh, oh well - not to worry eh?
I have been fixing the WicketPixie WordPress theme today - it had a few Database errors on installation and also had a few errors when trying to view it in Internet Explorer - although Chris Pirillo’s live version did not have these errors. I have emailed Chris with the details of what was wrong with it! Im sure the downloadable version will be fixed pretty soon guys!
I think I will write a better post tonight - I’ve got a few things on my mind that I would like to say - but not got the time right now!
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