Passing Friends and New News
July 29th, 2007
(and some real news updates too)
Sometimes I wonder why I read books. I like books. I love books. I hate finishing books.
Every time I finish a book, a book I’ve enjoyed, it’s like an old friend dying. It’s quite sad.
I know there’s always new books and returning to old books and revisiting of old friends and stuff. But that’s completely not the point…. 
In real news, Essk and I think we’ve found a nice little flat of our own. Touch wood.
And I may have discovered an exception to the magic pig theory, one I need to experiment upon and will report back further.
And and I’ve lost my mobile phone. Annoying. Don’t text me. Or call. Or MMS. Or laugh.
Commenter's site
July 29th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Could you possibly make an exception for your “Bandwidth stealing” images for people coming in from RSS readers? (whitelist google/reader? something like that) because getting your fuck-off-great bandwidth-stealing image when you’re using a smiley sucks cocks. KTHXBAI.
(I assume you also have an exception for plo?)
Commenter's site
July 30th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
[...] june » to san francisco for a couple of weeks to acclimatise to linden lab culture and processes, very chilled yet productive fortnight, i can now convert pounds sterling to/from US dollars and PDT to/from BST; july » had great fun trying to procure a macbook pro for work, to wolverhampton for lugradio live 2007, gave a quick talk and demo about second life, got more enjoyment out of picking up an xbox 360 on the cheap, to brighton for the develop conference and a linden recruitment event, beer is not cheap in brighton, saw the simpsons movie – basically a 90 minute episode of the simpsons and that’s not a bad thing, housemates who moved in here in march are moving out to a bigger pad near glasgow *schniff*, the geekha.us shall continue tho! [...]
Commenter's site
July 31st, 2007 at 8:15 am
Aquarion,
Were you on NTL/Virshin/Telebadger perhaps? I’ve had a couple of NTL users report that problem – a cache issue it’s suspected.
However, I can see google being a problem so I’ll add a magic rule for google, just for you
-Dx
Commenter's site
August 6th, 2007 at 10:35 am
It’s a generic cache problem. Your bandwidth-stealing thing feeds an image back when you ask for “smily.png”, so it saves that. If your rewrite was a redirect instead (“moved temporarily” ideally), then the cache would know to try again from the main site, instead of relying on what it got when I was coming from google. (Also for your whitelist, bloglines. In fact, why bother putting it on for the smiley directory at all?)
Commenter's site
August 10th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Aquarion:
As that’s the original images that was being stolen!
I take your redirect under advisement. I like the idea.
-Dx