As a visitor to Japan, I know there are a number of cultural differences – but IPWalk has a picture comparing the differences between the home pages of one of the largest “Western” web hosting companies (1and1) and the largest Japanese web hosting provider – Lolipop: and the difference are astounding…. Take a look yourself.
Richy's Random Ramblings
Yesterday I watched SpiderMan 3 with my other half and I must admit it did seem a bit “not good”. The opening credits were good – giving you a quick refresher of the previous two films, but then it was very slow going and some bits were just irrelevant (how “important” was it that we found out the Marcus Flint did “that crime” and that the editor of the Daily Bugle wanted a picture disproving Spiderman and then MJ on broadway). This meant that once the action actually started, it was over pretty quickly (some of it such as Peter vs Green Goblin Jnr was difficult to watch as it was so fast-paced you couldn’t keep an eye on the action). I’d say around 7.5-8/10, not brilliant but if you are stuck for something to do with yourselves ona damp bank holiday weekend, you could do worse.
This story on BBC news reminds me of my situation just a few months ago when I was a Star Wars virgin. Yep, until November time I hadn’t watched more than just a few minutes of Star Wars – but my other half made me watch it and like the guy in the BBC article, I didn’t find it as bad as I expected.
I’ve only seen 3-6 but I don’t think I’ll bother watch the first/last 3.
From Blue Goo Ate My Mom is the following meme:
SUPPOSEDLY if you’ve seen over 85 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you’ve seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, paste this as a note. Then, put x’s next to the films you’ve seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and click post at the bottom. Have fun.
See my responses below.
Before I forget, here’s a few internet orientated blogs which are worth keeping an eye on occasionally (by internet orientated ones, I mean ones more orientated around the operation of the internet)
Domain Names
- Nominet’s tech blog .Nominet are the .uk domain name registry. Useful information if you are running a big Oracle based system
- Nominet’s “official” blog. Mainly press release style announcements
- Icann’s blog. The “Internet Corporation For Assigned Names And Numbers” could be classed as the “government” of the internet: they ultimately assigned all IP address allocations, domain names etc to various providers. Very press releasy, but do have interesting things like the very simple map of the internet (ok, dated September 1969 but 😉 ).
- Bob Parsons. The CEO and Founder of GoDaddy, one of the largest domain name registrys out there (IMHO, a bit like McDonalds being the largest chain of restaurants). Very little techy orientated stuff though, seems to be more about him achieving his press releases and publicity.
- Domain Tools. DomainTools itself is a very useful site and their blog gives a “well I didn’t know/think about that” way of thinking.
Hosting Providers
- Softlayer. The official blog of one of the best US based dedicated server providers (IMHO). Only one entry so far so still too early to judge.
- The Planet. Softlayer’s main rival (especially in Texas). Appears to grant a good “insiders view” about the datacenter and the way it’s run.
- Kate’s Comment. Kate Craig-Wood (who is
marriedthe sister to Nick Craig-Wood of RISC OS fame) is the MD of Memset – my VPS provider. Good overview of things you hadn’t thought about hosting wise (such as environmental impact, power usage issues etc). - Redback Internet. A more techy orientated blog by the providers of web hosting space to my other half.
- Dreamhost. A very “strange” blog from a major US shared hosting provider. Covers a wide variety of issues, but the way they do them is very strange to me.
- EUKHost. A very technical orientated blog from a UK shared web hosting company.
Do you know any useful blogs like this? I’m sure that many many other companies have them, but let’s see if we can make a good list of them!