Flickr have switched from Flash to (buzzword warning) an AJAX solution for most of their interface and it’s much better, more responsive. They’ve also expanded their back-end operation and their photo servers number in the double digits. How do I know that? My Flickr RSS Wordpress plugin broke because of an assumption in a regular expression. I’ve since fixed it. Check out the plugin anyway, it’s quite simple but it works. It’s what I use to put the “Recent Flickr” thing in the side bar. You can display as many of your recent pictures as you want with it.
After lunch yesterday Stephen, James and I went up to the top floor of the multi-storey car park across the street from where we work to see what the view was like and to wave across at our colleagues toiling away. It was a beautiful afternoon, I took some pictures with my phone.
Further to my previous entry, I’m getting on quite well with Smart’s DSL. It’s as fast as they say. The best thing I’ve found with it is that I can watch movie trailers (check out Red Eye), large ones, in next to real time. Click the link, wait just a couple of seconds and it begins to play. The download will complete before the clip ends. That’s the good stuff, the bad stuff, and there’s only one thing so far, is that it’s a big disconnect-y. That’s not a problem that would effect the a lot common uses Internet uses, but for SSH sessions, and probably gaming too, it’s annoying. I’ll keep and eye on the up-and-down-ness of my connection over the next few days and if it’s quite bad I’ll have to get in touch with them. When I was on UTV’s product they had a disconnect something around every 48 hours which they explained was something to do with stats collection from the Eircom BAS’s.
With some help from Michael (Thanks!) and commercial data recovery tools I think we’ve got back quite a large chunk of the data I had feared was lost from my hard drive, that you’re all probably sick of hearing about by now. I haven’t analysed the data yet but any recovered is better than none. Rejoice!
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith opens tomorrow and by some happy fortune I’ve managed to get into a 5 past midnight- tonight/tomorrow morning - showing courtesy of $SEARCH_ENGINE, Ireland.
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