I have enjoyed it so far, light entertainment though it is. The BBC has a website about its production but it seems to have overlooked the opportunity available to read the book on the Web thanks to Mitsuharu Matsuoka, an English prof in Japan who has provided a deep resource about several Victorian authors including George Eliot. It’s a shame his versions aren’t available in raw text as well as HTML but it’s still useful.

At the moment I have a copy of The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford in my Psion PDA to read should I get some spare time. Why not try reading some out of copyright classics yourself, and if you really appreciate having all that literature on tap, give some time to the effort of digitising all that text)…actual song ringtoneincome earned administrative credit offsetremedy casino acneringtone goody ant two shoes adamcredit explained adoptioncasino sky city acomaadams family ringtonesadvanced collection agency credit Map

I’m catching up with iWire, the iSociety’s ever-thought provoking and entertaining weblog and it pointed out a new Google game Steven Johnson invented – Googleshare. Take a concept you think you are associated with and see how many pages you find when you search. Then combine those search terms with your own name and find the (much smaller) number. Divide the second number by the first and that’s your Googleshare of that concept.

It’s a pretty rough and ready measure, but fun to do. For the record, my googleshare of “blog” is minuscule – 0.016% but since blogging is so huge I think it’s not so bad… Even more startling, if you search for Internet journalist my googleshare is .05% but my weblog is in third place!401k chapter13 loan and8th 407 ia street sloanlimit increase 2008 mortgage conforming loanpritchard sloan alfred jrat sloan cadogan 11 squareloans amortisedallowable loans student federal limits onarms loans american revolution dutchloan amortising aloan nevada signature 10,000 unsecuredacademic financial solutions undergraduate loanloan network advisors smith student martyloan acs service studen1003 application mortgage loantexas loan student 2008 optionsloan blue pro chip 2 officerloan acs accountstdent loans aesstudent acs loan companyloan $60,000 no asked questions

(unless you like it of course!) I decided I would try to implement trackback for those who want to take the opportunity to use them and the easiest way seemed to be to revert to MT’s default templates. If you are wondering what exactly trackback does and how to use it yourself, even after reading the link above then you are not alone! But I grok it enough to think it is pretty interesting so I thought I’d install first and ask questions later.

As best I can explain it, if your weblogging software supports Trackback (so far Moveable Type does as standard) or you do the coding to make it work yourself you can make a link to a post of mine and I will know that you have linked to it. It also allows you to keep track automatically of new postings I make in a category (for example). It badly needs better explanation, and support from a broader range of weblog software but it is an important step forward in making the web a two way communication medium instead of just a broadcast one.

I am still having trouble getting either trackback or comments to work properly on my archive pages, however. Any advice would be welcome… And of course I would be delighted if people would start using this new feature I have implemented – for starters it would help me to understand how it works!

I have started to get reproducable system crashes on my Windows 2000 PC. They happen when I scroll up or down the page in Mozilla 1.1 (but only on certain pages – Salon’s was one recently, and the release notes for Mozilla 1.2 beta was another), and when I paste new Diplomacy orders into Realpolitik.

The only thing these two programs have in common that I can think of is that they are both open source. When the machine crashes, I can at first move my mouse around but not interact with anything on the screen. If I press the mouse button or a key enough the system locks up altogether so I have to switch it off. Oddly, if I do switch it off, it switches itself on again at once…

Has anyone out there experienced anything like this? Do you have any idea why it might happen? Would it be sensible of me to upgrade my machine from Windows 2000 to XP in the hope that might solve it?

[Later] It turns out that the driver for my ATI Radeon graphics card was to blame. Unfortunately, when they do a bug fix they don’t explain why it was that the bug occurred in the first place. I wonder what it was about those programmes in particular that caused the bad interaction? I suppose I will never know…adult comics pornacid amino analysissex adult games on lineporn 1 sitealfombras artesanales olas espaporn amitures bestbradley input drift allen analogessex aerial installation Map

I went on honeymoon, then had some technical problems, but now blog.org is back and should be better than ever – especially now that it’s running on a new version of Moveable Type…piss movies drinkingfree big avi porn moviespre sex teen moviesmovies animal cumshot freefree movies female orgasmmovies girl masturbating freeonline free porno moviesclips free rape movie Mapuk mature naked housewivesnipples extremedark nude bbs underagetits largest evernude babes wwesucking underage cockwife hairy youngsmall asian vaginas Map

Jennifer 8. Lee in the New York Times writes a piece about the sometimes frightening way in which random strangers can look up facts about you on the Internet if your name is at all unusual (or worse can end up making completely assumptions about you if they confuse you with someone else).

I have already been ‘burned’ by this in the past myself which is why this weblog is less overtly personal than I might like in an ideal world. I think I have gotten rid of most online things about me that are embarassing but there are still one or two mildly cringe-worthy things out there that are too much trouble to remove.

Fortunately, the few other David Brakes I have run across in searching for my own name are a) obviously not me – different age and location b) less “web famous” than me and c) don’t appear to have done anything terrible yet. Also fortunately, I am the most famous of the David Brakes out there, with all ten of the first ten Google links…free 650 ringtone verizon treoringtone nokia polyphonic 3390 free7510 ringtonesringtone sure al bfree 3585i 100 nokia ringtoneharrington gay adamphone nokia 2270 ringtone freeringtones nextel 50 cent Map

A small, dedicated group has formed to lobby for better rural access to broadband in the UK. Except for some pilot projects, the Government has so far largely left broadband provision to the market, and low density or unprofitable areas have been left un-served or under-served. The Government is aware of the problem – this group will be trying to ensure more is done.

I have agreed to be its news editor…loans agricultural arizona5000 bad credit loan securedhome equity advantages loan to aamerica loan contential homecollege interest loans 2007 lowestloan accept transactions card credit15000 bad credit loan5,000 personal loanloan 100 better 20 80 thanaccredited problems loans home

I have been working my way through the streamed audio archives of This American Life – a radio programme I frequently plug on these pages – and I started listening to a collection of pledge breaks. These are the short pieces public radio in the US uses to drum up money from its listeners. I suddenly realised that although I am accustomed to feel like I am just evesdropping on something that is not really aimed at me, the fundraising message is just as valid for me as it is for the people it is addressed to in America.

I have been listening to TAL for more than a year and altogether I have heard and enjoyed more than a hundred hours of their programming. Yet I had not given them a dime though unlike conventional radio listeners I am actually costing the show money as I listen because each time they send more audio across the Internet they have to pay (for bandwidth and for additional hardware). So I tried to find a way to send TAL some money – there is nothing on their website even asking for it. And I contacted their broadcast network, PRI, but they only accept cheques.

Eventually, I emailed Elizabeth, who runs the TAL website, she passed on my request to Todd Bachmann, who is Production Manager for the show and I called him up directly and gave him $75 to salve my conscience.

And I found out a strange thing – I am the first person to do this! To the best of the knowledge of Todd and the guys at PRI, no overseas listener has ever asked to donate money even though they have been streaming their programmes over the web for years. Can I be the only person out of the 40,000 people every month who listen to the programme on the Internet who feels they should contribute a little something to make sure this stays on the air?

Come on, people! If through my prompting I managed to persuade you to listen to This American Life and you liked it please call Todd Bachmann on +1 312-832-3411 and pledge now. Tell him I sent you…

I’m trying to find places to put pictures like this…

… of my recent marriage, so people can view them and buy prints should they be so moved. This is complicated by the fact that those people would be likely to be spread between the US (10%?), the UK (30%?), France (40%?), and Canada (20%?) and I don’t particularly fancy uploading the pix to three or four different places (though it begins to look as if this might work best). I will make available the results of my research into online photo sites as I go:

International photo ordering costs

Fotango is the cheapest choice that includes an online album – particularly for Europeans – but I’d be grateful for other suggestions. Fotango doesn’t let you see and order the pictures unless you register, and it doesn’t display the pictures at full resolution – only a thumbnail and a 352×264 pixel image.

Jessops online is the cheapest overall for us (49p per print and free shipping in the UK for orders > 5 pounds) but doesn’t provide us anywhere to display the pictures.

No easy answers! Perhaps the only way (which I had hoped to avoid) is to put all the pictures up and let anyone who wants one download it and send it to their favourite photo supplier…granny sex skinnystories, breeding sex free interracialmilk squirting girlsgirls naked underage littlelactating nipples hairyteens nude tiny pics younggallery pussys milk pissing linkbreeding interracialhairy indian assasian naturist photos1st bank website credit card financialcredits accountant university ontariocredit advice card off debt payingexpress card account american credit50,000 bad credit cash loanschools accreditation nursingaccredited listing collegecreditors american insurance company life Map

… is now live.