BinaryJam

It’s been barely a month since I moved the blog and hosted it on ASO.  Some may have noticed a slight disruption in service yesterday.  ASO managed to louse up the DNS entry for my domain and pointed it at a friend of mine’s instead, hence all the car stuff that appeared in the feed.

They fixed the problem as fast as DNS TTL would allow and things are back to normal now.

Thing’s go wrong sometimes, it’s when they do you learn how good the support is of the service your buying and I can say I’m reasonably pleased.  I’m not so pleased they loused it up in the first place a little more care could have been applied, a few processes observed perhaps.  But hopefully things are back to normal.

To overcome all the problems with websense rubbish this site moved today from binaryjam.wordpress.com to its true site of www.binaryjam.com.

It’s now hosted by aSmallOrange using wordpress.  I can already see some of the advantages I have lightbox!

The other blog will continue on wordpress.com for a while, I think I will delete it but am unsure of what that will do for my google ratings.  Probably kill them.

Hopefully I might get to post some more.

At some point I’ll get Orcas working and Silverlight 1.1 development going and I can publish a 1.1 webpart although Jan Tielens says he’s got something coming there so watch out for it.

After asking wordpress why they didn’t support image uploads in MS Writer I found out that MS product tries to create directories, which for a public hosted free service is a bit much to ask for.

They did mention using BlogDesk instead as it could handle image uploads.

So Im posting a Perlin generated landscape.

Ooohh the image insert part is quite nice, complete with thumbnailing, I was going to bitch I could’nt just drag it on, no I am,think I just did.

Well here goes.

*Edit - Hmm Thumbnailing didn’t work but at least I have an image.

Earlier this week I was late for work, which is no big deal and it gave me the chance to listen to radio 4 programming that is not the news.  I was listening to Midweek with guests like Rupert Everett two and two artists and the last guest was a man who has a blog.  I enjoyed the other guests but this last guest was intriguing. 

He is an inner city London ambulance driver who for the past two years has kept a blog.  Quite a popular blog, but until this interview I had not come across it.  Some bright spark publisher has had the idea to take this man’s writing and turn it into a book. 

Blood, Sweat and Tea: Real Life Adventures in an Inner-city Ambulance

Now this isn’t the first time I’ve heard of blogs being turned into books so far I have heard of two

1. The confessions of a Video Store Clerk (Yes that kind of video store)
2. The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky

I have read the blog of number one and own number 2 (which I wish I didn’t as whilst the writing is good I am undecided about how I feel about a compilation of others works in a book I do hope the profits are shared out to the other writers or at least to an agreed charity, if not this is why I am uneasy about it).  Its also as dry as you can get.

However this blokes blog/book has some great stories in it and is worth hunting down.  As the title suggest it details the day to day activity of an Ambulance driver the highs and lows and the stupidity of the human race. Why casualty is feeding the nation nonsese and what people dial 999 for will horrify you, unless of course your one of those people who have never actually had proper flu and think a bad cold qualifies. Please note: Doctors, Hospitals and Ambo’s (His name for Ambulances) can’t cure colds and flu, flu vaccines don’t cause flu (the virus components are dead), antibiotics will not clear up a runny nose.

For those in the UK you can try to “Listen Again” on the BBC website http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/midweek.

The blog is still up and running and you can continue to read about these adventures on

http://randomreality.blogware.com/blog

Last Note.  I recommend the video store thing too but not at work, learn the horrors of DVD returns and the bliss of the anti-bac handwash.

tags: random+acts+of+reality, blood+sweat+and+tea, book+recommendation, blog+recommendation

I am currently trying to bring all the old content from my dasBlog to wordpress.  There may be problems but I am trying to sort them out be patient of files are missing or even content.

MS have release the beta of windows live write an offline blog editor.  You probably alrady know this but this is my excuse to actually try a post with it.

http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/

tags: Windows+Live+Writer, Microsoft, blogs

I’ve created a new area in my site called places. I am going to attempt to write a bit about places I have been and supplement it with pictures.

Take a look now and again, I hope to update it with a few more places but for now there is one.

You will need to access the site as its done using pages in wordpress, which doesnt RSS.

Again my domain for binaryjam is down. The hosting company Catalyst2 have made changes to the .Net security model due to hackers coming along and breaking things. Which then meant that the support dept came along and broke the site.

I doubt a solution will be forthcoming so I will have to migrate content here. I will look at writing something that can take dasBlog XML files and post them direct. If I don’t get the time I’ll post some of the more useful blog postings of the main site, well useful to me at least hopefully any stray soul who wanders here by mistake might find it useful to.

*Update*
Well I was right, the guys at catalyst2 could not alter the security as it would endanger everybody’s site so this is the new permanent site.  I must say though whilst I was at Catalyst they were excellent and the support is always quick.  They even agreed that a partial refund due to me having to migrate was in order.  You can’t get better than that.

So if you are looking for a hosting solution then catalyst2 are good, so long as you dont require more than medium level .NET security.

One thing I did not look into was to migrate to linux/perl/php hosting with them and host my own wordpress site instead.  This may have been my ideal solution, proper domain name, wordpress blog, great support.  Just one small problem…what’s php?