Chris#2

depends on the circumstances, apparently... He's having a fecker of a time getting them to keep to that. Legal action has been threatened, so maybe he'll be able to get it sorted.

It's definitely fraudulent. We had a guy at work fall for something similar - he handed over his credit card details on a "online banking security check"... He's now down 7K with little chance of getting all of his money back. Let that be a warning to you all.

That site's peddling *old* information. I've got one of the 3rd Generation iPods (4th Gen just came out) and I only have to charge it about once a week, sometimes less... and the battery is still going strong after the best part of a year. Besides, you can replace the battery pretty easily on newer iPods. All it takes is a small flathead screwdriver to pop the back cover off (I took a look inside mine). PC Format magazine had a guide, a couple of issues back. Replacement batteries are available online for around 40. As for filling it - same problem here! I've got the 20GB model and I've yet to get to half way filled. I had it up to about 8GB, then had a nasty "accidental reformat" incident when I reinstalled iTunes... Currently I'm up to about 6GB.

New One -> Pixel Meadow - "Geekimus Maximus" Old One -> chrismcleod.net - going to eventually turn this one into a portfolio site.

Sorry, but what's all the fuss about? It's not a great interview by any stretch of the imagination, but if it gets MMW a few people inquiring about them across the pond then good for them... Nice to see a local band thinking of the larger world out there. Did it really deserve all that flak?

Topstyle Pro is another good choice, but it's for hand-coding (no WYSIWYG). I use it for most things. I tend to only use Dreamweaver for ASP or PHP hand-coding. It's fast, quite easy to get to grips with, feature packed and costs nothing near the price of Dreamweaver. There is a free version, but it only really does CSS stylesheets. http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle/

hmmm... looks alright. Not quite what I expected (for some reason, I had it in my head it was an RTS game). Might invest in it, when I get my new gaming rig up and running... if I'm not too busy playing Dawn of War...

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Transformers was most definitely rock. Especially the movie soundtrack. Which reminds me - I must get hold of a new copy...

This do as a reminder..?

Blues Brothers Leon Transformers: The Movie Equilibrium Enemy At The Gates

How about this: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=60354 ? Could that not work, when the site is upgraded (though I think there's a hack for the current version as well)?

I just wet myself with glee. I remember the first Blaze/Atom gig - it was fantastic. Still got the t-shirt, somewhere...

You know those buttons that are displayed on every reply? How about having a button next to the ones for a user's website, adding them to your buddy list, etc, that links to a user's gallery (if they've created one)? It might make the galleries a bit more accessible, cos at the moment it can be a bit long winded finding the gallery of a specific user. Nother gallery suggestion: show more than 5 "recent posts" on the gallery home page and/or sort by date by default...

They haven't been signed to a "major" because the music they play isn't hip; they aren't teen-girl-magazine friendly; they aren't particularly chart friendly (what with all the 8 minute-long songs 'n' all) and because Joe is small and hairy. But we love them anyway (p.s. I'm more old-skool Atom than the lot of ya's recogniiiiiize beeyotches. )

i'll try and get a moment at the start of next week, to sit down and try and understand what's going wrong...

hehe, I've got a copy of all your old recordings (like the stuff done 4 years ago or so!), somewhere... I could make a fortune!

Sorry, but did you actually read what I wrote? The faster part is but ONE, fairly insignificant, reason. Read the rest of what I said...

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand another thing - If you have any interest in designing/developing web sites, then you should have a Mozilla browser (preferably Firebird) and Opera installed at the very least! Preferably also have some sort of emulation software running an alternate OS (like OS X/ Linux) so you can see other platforms as well. At work, I have 3 Windows machines (XP + IE 6 and Firebird/Opera, 2000 + IE 5, 98 + IE 4 and Netscape 4), a Mac with OS X (Safari) and MacOS 9 (IE 5 for Mac) and a Linux machine (with Konquerer), just for testing everything works. At home I have a similar setup, except for the Mac. See my point about cross-platform development! If you only design for IE, then you cut out MILLIONS of potential site visitors from viewing your site, cos it'll probably be broken from bad code and browser specific "features".

put it this way - the only "improvements" to IE over the last SIX YEARS have been security patches. IE does not support the standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) very well at all. This leads developers to the use of markup that is: Inaccessible to users with disablities. Harder to maintain. Not forward compatible. Innaccessible to users that use devices such as PDA's to access the web. Cross-browser problems. IE is also too lenient when it comes to bad markup in general. This encourages bad markup and thus, more bad/slow/inaccessible web pages. IE is lacking a lot of the features found in other browsers. A good example being tabs for browsing multiple sites - it's probably THE most useful feature ever devised for a web browser. IE is bug-ridden. See point one. IE is no longer going to be developed as a stand alone browser. You'll have to upgrade your OS if you want the next version. Also, the current IE code base is so bloated and patched that Microsoft are having to start again from scratch, rewriting the entire thing. IE is slow. Very slow. Very very slow. Opera is AT LEAST 4 times faster at rendering a page (in my experience). Both Firebird and Opera are a lot faster at starting the program, despite MS cheating by having parts of the IE code preloaded into Windows at start-up. The main alternative browsers (Opera + Mozilla and its varients) are all cross-platform, meaning that they all render web pages exactly the same no matter the OS. MS just killed off IE for Mac, meaning that IE is Windows only. IE for Mac was (bizarrely) better than IE for Windows.... I could go on all day as to why I personally don't use IE and why I choose to use Firebird instead. So could the millions of people that use Mozilla-based browsers or Opera, or any browser that isn't on a Windows platform... The question should not be "why do other people use something different to IE?" - it's "Why do people still put up with the pile of shit that IE is?"

but that would defeat the purpose. if everyone switched back to IE, until everyone else realised how good Mozilla et al were, then we'd be using IE for eternity.

using Mozilla Firebird on Windows XP. not had a chance to properly look through the site, to see what's broken... busy period at the moment, you know! I'll have a look and tell nyou what's what later tonight, when I get a breather.