Some new podcasts that I’ve subscribed to recently are:
Hometown Tales – ghost tales, strange stories and legends.
Scott Sigler’s Ancestor – Sci-fi story by the author of Earthcore
The Tech Guy – a radio show on KFI 640
Author: Simon
Ice has gone, but now there’s a crack
For the first morning in several days, there wasn’t ice on the windscreen of the car like this picture from yesterday.
Comment spam yet again
In the last few days I’ve been getting maybe 5 or 6 bits of blog comment spam through each day. The weird thing is that they’re not advertising viagra, cialis, dodgy websites, poker or anything like that. In fact, they’re not really advertising anything as such, but random phrases within the comments are linking through to various legit URLs. What is the point of that?
I’ve been deleting the comments as they come in since they’re just garbage and will only (in my opinion) encourage more spam comments if left alone.
Music downloads
Mac OSX 10.4.3 released
OSX 10.4.3 was released a few days ago (October 31st). There are quite a large number of fixes in there but an interesting one was “MS-DOS formatted volumes, including the iPod Shuffle, perform better and consistently mount (become available) in the Finder.”
Urban Dead in print
PC Gamer (December 2005) has a whole page about Urban Dead in it. I suppose this means more publicity for Kevan’s game and some fresh survivors for the zombie hordes to munch on.
Mac Expo pictures
As promised (in the previous entry), here are the pictures from the 2005 Mac Expo. I didn’t take a huge number and some of them turned out a little blurred. I guess I needed that digital camera magazine subscription afterall!
Mac Expo
We got to go to the Mac Expo in London at the end of last week and saw some pretty interesting stuff. Last year we were mostly looking at the various printers that were available because Lori needed information for her degree, this year it was more gadgets and software.
MySQL bug (followup)
As a followup to my previous MySQL bug post, I tried PostgreSQL and didn’t like it all that much. I found there was too much of a learning curve for someone who’s only really used MySQL to any great extent. It’s probably a better alternative for someone who is used to something like Oracle.
MySQL bug
It seems that in gaining over 100,000 players, Kevan’s Urban Dead game has managed to find a bug in MySQL that causes corruption of indexes. Unfortunately no-one at MySQL AB is able to replicate the bug so it can’t be tracked down and fixed.
More information can be found in the MySQL forum.