Robert J Turner

Wanna get rid of those “Ads by Google” thatr appear on sites, including mine (I get paid if people click on the links) then get yourself Firefox and Adblock extention.

Firefox is an alternative browser to Internet Explorer and it allows developers to create pliug-ins for it, Adblock it one of those pligins that supports blocking of scripts, iframes, SWF content and images so you can block banner images, the iframe’s that some sites use to try and stop some ad blockers and also if you click the work Adblock in the bottom right of Firefox you can also block scripts that some sites have, also you can see some sites have scripts running that do things you might not want then to do and block them.

I also use it to block graphics on overly graphic based sites. To block all SWF content you can use a wild card *.swf, it also can be used to block quicktime imbedded movies.

One nice trick I also use it for is if I see an SWF quicktime movie in a site and the site is overly crappy I can click the adblock tab, copy the URL, cancel the block request and past the URL straight into the browser. Rather nice if I wanted to send a SWF birthday card to someone but doent want all the other rubbish on that site, also if its an url ending with .swf it will be full screen in the bowser and hitting F11 will then make firefox go into fullscreen mode so you can play your favourite SWF’s in full screen mode

Check out the Jeff Noon interview, Author of many books that seem to take the theme of alternate realities. Personally read Needle in the Groove, Vurt and the most awesome Automated alice.

Jeff’s site is here at Spike http://www.jeffnoon.com/index.php

Check the J Noon Interview here:
http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/noon_interview.html

An alternative in a simular vein would be Greg Bear an author from down under:

http://gregbear.com

Putting your life on the line…

Im realising the amount of crap that you can sign up for online, be careful Putting your life online as you can really expose yourself to the world, the internet allows you to expose yourself to the world and that can be used great effect in finding out your secrets.

Just some things I am signed up to..:

http://www.43things.com/twinkler/list/2080470
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/
http://www.vicfun.com/
http://cc.emsisoft.com/
http://www.flickr.com/
http://www.wishlist.com/mywishlist/
http://spaces.msn.com/members/robtinbc/
http://www.my-eTrust.com/myaccount/
http://www.fileshack.com/page.x?login
http://www.BirthdayAlarm.com/

Here is a little game, given that my 2 main emails are rob_turner@hotmail.com and rob_j_turner@msn.com and that I have signed up to the sites above and I either go my robtinbc and robt_bstoke see how much information you can find out about me using just your browser and email me what you know about me.

I will do the same to you if you give me your email address.

If you dont want to play that game then pick an email address from your address book and see what evidence you can find about, I have Guestbooks I signed 10 years ago still showing my email addresses.

You have been warned…

NMC

Just using StumbleUpon to get me around the web, its a toolbar from http://www.stumbleupon.com and supports all most good browsers.

Anyway, I made it to a site that I like, its called NMC and it has a streaming radio option to hear the new talent out there…:

New Music Canada - Put it in your ear

If you want the RealPlayer stream into your media player use the URL: http://www.newmusiccanada.ca/player/playlist.cfm?radio=true&bit_rate=1

I recommend installing Real Alternative from http://www.filehippo.com/

Homeless and fur trees.

I remember some time ago in our local greenspace where we walked our dog that there was a fur tree that had branches to the floor, one evening we heard snoring coming from the tree and it seems a homeless man was living under the branches, the next time we visited the part the branches had been cut from around the trunk up to chest height leaving this poor homeless man out in the cold.

Where I work there is a large homeless crowd due to a place called the upper room providing homeless a place to sleep. Opposite the main Window the office reception is another Fur tree and this is used as a public lavatory and area to hide when taking substances and this tree is also marked some saw action so if you want to save the fur tree’s of Victoria we need to assist in giving the homeless homes and jobs.

Victoria enviromentalists gather together and give jobs to the homeless working with the environment.

Telus Webspace - gripes!

I have a few issues with Telus, I wanted to setup a customer 404 page because I moved my site from Telus servers to another hosting service, I read though all of the Telus support pages for webspace and nothing on custom 404’s. They did link to a 404 specific site that gave alot of information and another site that would tell me what webserver Telus runs, apparently accourding to this page it is Apache 1.3 on Solaris 8.

So I proceded to to setup a .htaccess file in my old Telus webspace so I could have just 1 404 page stating that the site had been moved and an auto redirect to my new site.

It doesnt work!! Telus, whats the score.

A friend of mine’s “better half” has setup a replica handbag website, pretty cool, I was thinking of getting one to go with my orange shirt, take a look at the site below, they sell:

Handbags
Hats and Headgear
Jewelry
Shoes
Sunglasses
Wallets
Wholesale Lots

Sunny Replicas: Louis Vuitton Replica Handbags, Coach Replica Handbags, Dior, Gucci, Chanel

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