Journal entry · May 12, 2004
Apparently NTL are uping their broadband speeds NTL follows fatter pipe rival Telewest – silicon.com . Havent noticed any speed improvement at home yet!
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Apparently NTL are uping their broadband speeds NTL follows fatter pipe rival Telewest – silicon.com . Havent noticed any speed improvement at home yet!
Gmails spam filter not working as well in past 24 hours. Received 162 spams. gmail correctly got 133 of them but let through 29….
Very interesting article from a Californian VC here “Hubbert’s Peak” about when the oil will run out. Dr. Hubbert (in response to remarks by David Nissen – Exxon): “… [T]here is a different and more fundamental cost that is independent of the monetary price. That is the energy cost of exploration and production. So long […]
The gmail spam filter is now working much better. Out of the 82 spam received in last 18 hours or so the filter correctly identified 73 of them. Seems strange that the filter works better after posting a reply on the extremetech forum herewere they were reviewing gmail.
Finally got blogger to generate a RSS feed from my website, secret given toi me on blogger forums was to put a forward slash at start and end of directory. Lets see if this pops up on my blogroll at Bloglines now.
Last night tried to set up the RSS function on my blog with the help from this post Blogger went of air with some outdated message from last year. This morning I wake up to awhole new blogger, the interface is completly rehashed with help files etc and a much better way of showing old […]
Another test, this time I put step1 in the blogger template , rather than in the web site page Came up with error 550 550- blogger.htmlNo space left on device Error in upload. Web host says I have 6MB left. This is so frustrating! Tried republishing entire site rather than just latest. Comes back with […]
A test to see if Haloscan comments appear
A good site for finding out definitions of some common English words and expressionsQuestions & AnswersIndex Even has a RSS feed so I can get it using bloglines
gmail’s spam filter is getting worse 107 identified 128 let through. That’s two days worth of spam!