Well, that was fun. Trying to copy off the websites I want to keep live whilst playing with the server, and it goes and crashes. Total lockup, with no clue (as before). I actually had an uptime that was only a little pathetic too 
Anyway, all should be well now (about 30 mins down on the web serving), and at least I do now have an up-to-date copy of the main sites.
I got sent a link to this article which discusses the usage of Windows at Sun. I just had to pass comment…
(Sorry Douglas).
Reads like an account of Windows Users Anonymous: ‘My name’s Stan, and I only used Windows three time last week’.
RedHat. Sheesh. The distro that is so up-it’s-own-IPO that it thinks the BSD licence is evil and needs to be eradicated. Get a real laptop that supports plugins: go and buy an OS X machine 
I’m starting to think that certain businesses are the same, no matter what they do: CEO’s do the same thing irrespective of the products that a company sells, and so, like the Earth turning, Accounts will always use Excel, and Managers/HR will always turn to Word in order to turn a simple 1.5Kb missive into a 63Kb macro-virus infested font-use-from-hell e-mail.
So stopping commercial use of Windows simply requires that we fire off a third of our population on a very large spaceship. Perhaps, calling it an Ark, and declaring to the lucky chosen few that there are plenty of planets out there without any decent employment representation, and even (gasp) whole societies who have never seen a speadsheet, or a joke email sent in PowerPoint format…
I would suggest, though, that the Telephone Sanitisers remain behind.
Oh yeah. Sure. The UK hasn’t decided what to think over Iraq. That’s why there’s been more aircraft activity over my house in the last 48 hours than the rest of the year put together… Noisy things they are, too. I’m sure the convoys of 20 to 30 military trucks that I’ve seen two of in the last 10 days are also out just for fun as well.
Looking in my sock drawer this morning, a few things came to mind – the first was why do I keep getting different pairs of odd socks ? I swear that the ones left at the end change every few weeks… The second was that three pairs of airline socks is three too many, and that I should have signed up for air miles way sooner than I did. The last thought, as I pulled on a matching pair (of airline socks) , is that I really, really should have put a load of washing on a couple of days sooner, even if that meant missing a bit of the Odyssey 5 pilot. Which was rather impressive on the Physics front for a TV series with a zero-G element.
I like iTunes on my iBook, but I often forget the name of a track (I just listen to the album[s] whilst programming) so thanks to the hotkey ability of Keyboard Maestro, I’ve got an AppleScript solution (my first !) that takes up no screen space at all. I also threw in a pause and play pair of scripts too, so other people can interrupt me and I don’t need to hunt for the right app and button.
I bind these to F9 (speak), F10 (pause) and F11 (play) because it suits me although I’m not brave enough to take a magic marker to my iBook’s keyboard. Yet.Pause:
tell application "iTunes" if player state is playing then pause say "Paused" else say "Not playing" end if end tell
Play:
tell application "iTunes" say "Play" play end tell
Current tune:
tell application "iTunes"
if player state is playing then
say artist of current track as string
say name of current track as string
else
say "Not playing"
end if
end tell
Enjoy !
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