Wednesday, November 13, 2002
Ahhhhhh... that's better, and quite a first. I went to bed quite early by my standards (11:30pm) and actually managed to sleep right through the night.Today's gonna be quite a busy day. Before going to visit my mum this afternoon, I have quite a few web page updates to do on both of my main sites, mainly concerned with links to the webcam. Up untill a couple of days ago, I've been using the software and hosting provided by Camarades.com, but have been increasingly annoyed with their changing policies and commercialisation. They no longer offer a totally free option, and as for the popups... one is tollerable, but to add another, full page sized popup... it's going too far. SO... I've switched over to MyOwnCam.org. They're very much like camarades were in the beginning, ie providing software and a web page to host it, completely free. The software may not be quite as slick, and the page design is far more basic, but it still allows you to customise your own page. Also, they provide that funky little status button, so people can see if your cam is online before even clicking the link. See it over on the left? The popup cam feature is a bit odd. It opens the cam into a popup window, which is great, but then does a strange thing and reloads the whole of this blog page too. Still... with no huge advertising pages to annoy viewers (though the tripod ones still appear as it reloads this page) it's quite an improvement. After saying all of that, does anyone out there ever look at my cam anyway?
I'll be starting a new online project fairly soon, though nothing too clever... just something I've felt like doing for a while. Entitled "The Octopus Files", it's basicly gonna be a weblog portal site. Thing is, so far I've seen two different types of blog portal, those that actually review the blogs, and more often than not completely miss the point and offend the writers themselves, and those that are just a huge collection of links, with no clue as to what the content is like. The Octopus Files will be different, though the idea is very simple... let the blogs speak for themselves. With each link will be a small (and hopefully representative) excerpt from that blog, so that people can get some idea of what it's like. Stay tuned for more info as and when it's available.
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