For Windows: Trillian (download)
For Mac OS X: AdiumX (download)
For Linux: Gaim (download)
Gaim is also available for Windows. I’ve never tried it, but I assume that it is much the same as the Linux version.
Any suggestions?
But I just can’t get into The Futureheads.
Aside: I was hideously confused when my computer suddenly started making a horrendous racket, as if some music was playing at the same time as that which I had scheduled. I stopped xmms, to discover that the Futureheads were still playing. I hunted around for a stray media player, but couldn’t find anything. Eventually I twigged – the music was coming from their website. A message to all bands: your website should not randomly start playing music unless the user asks for it. You complete. Fucking. Idiots.
They are playing at Reading this year, and they are on the NME stage on the Sunday, which basically means that Karen and I are forced to watch them. In the light of their computer-hijackery, I’m toying with the idea of smacking myself over the head with a bag of bricks, as it’s suddenly looking very appealing.
Anyway, my point is, are they really as bad as I think they are? At the moment I can’t stand them, but has anybody seen them live? Are they a tiny bit bearable live? Because if so, I’ll rethink the whole brick thing.
Apologies for sparse updates on the chillis. They’ve been doing okay – not causing too many waves, just busy growing. They are quite tall now.
Graybo, any suggestions?
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Both the UK and the USA are considering restricting the quantity of cotton t-shirts imported from China, as numbers have soared since quotas were lifted at the beginning of this year.
In the case of the UK, this is justified as a move to slow the deterioration of Europe’s textile industry; and the USA see it as essential to protect domestic jobs. Apparently it hasn’t occurred to them that the USA exports 60% of the cotton used in the Chinese textile industry. Wonder how long it will take them to cotton on?
Human Rights in China
So I sent a message to MSN, via this contact form. My message follows:
I am the owner of the website at http://www.uborka.nu/
On all our pages we have a META robots tag in the header, with parameters noindex, noarchive, nofollow. This tag has always been in place.
This site appears at the top of an MSN search for “uborka”. The MSN web spider should see this tag and act upon it by not indexing my site.
Please fix your web spider immediately.
Seemed fair, I thought. I got this response:
Hello,
Thank you for your message to MSN Privacy.
Unfortunately, I am unable to assist you with your support request as it does not relate to Privacy.
Support for MSN products and services can be found at the following Web site:
http://support.msn.com/contactus.aspxPlease resubmit your inquiry at this site and an MSN support agent will contact you promptly with assistance.
For additional information about PC Health, Safety and Security, please visit: http://security.msn.com/
For additional information about the MSN Privacy Statement ,please visit: http://privacy.msn.com
Sincerely,
Sandeep
MSN Privacy
Funny that. I would argue that my request DOES concern my privacy. I think my next step would be to use .htaccess to block the msnbot. That’ll learn them.
Interviewer on ITV F1 show: “George, any plans to make a film about F1 racing?”
George: “No, I think it’s more fun just to watch.”
That explains why the recent Star Wars films have been so disappointing – he no longer defines a film as “something that you watch.”
All makes sense now.
UPDATE: Heh, and Martin Brundle just bumped into Jensen Button on the grid. Jensen was supposed to be up in the commentary box, but had got lost. I guffawed.
That was shit. I’m going to focus my attentions on polishing off this bottle of wine.
