Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don't push me and I won't push you. Dong-luh-mah?

Chrome, baaby, Chrome.

Google ChromeGoogle ChromeThe Browser wars are expanding and Google has just launched its foray into the war - Google Chrome.

I am posting this message using Chrome and I think I like it. It's fast and has a minimalist style.

It also seems to import all the settings from Firefox.

It has a few nice bells and whistles too - you can drag a tab to the desktop to open a new browser, and you can drag tabs between browsers. It is also supposedly better with web applications.

The url/address/omni bar is a little ugly with the large font and slight greying out bits of the url, but it is usable. Not as good as the Firefox "Awesome Bar".

Mashal Radio

Mashal Radio - ScreenshotMashal Radio - Screenshot Mashal Radio is an online radio broadcasting during the month of ramadan, both online, and through a more traditional FM Transmission on 106.7 FM for the local community.

The project was to create a simple website from where people could get information and also listen to the radio station. No real complicated functionality was needed, the client did not even want a playlist on the site - however some bells and whistles were set up such as live chat, an updates mailing list and a contact form.

The radio streaming is provided and handled by a third party through the client so it had no real impact on the site development.

Change of Hosting

After my recent interweb troubles, I have decided to move away from 1and1 and have chosen the hosting services of eUKHost - they seem to offer a lot more for a similar amount of money (after using a discount code).

The new set has around three times as much guaranteed RAM, 4x as much Burstable and almost 4x the bandwidth as before. (which I don't really need. yet.), two ip addresses as standard, and fast help, either as live chat or over the phone 24/7.

So far the new service has been excellent - they even transferred the data and settings over for me!

After the troubles with 1and1, this is a massive relief and I would recommend them very much for hosting.

Drupal is Great (Themes related)

This post is brought to you in conjunction with hotspot shield (because the access issues are continuing) and 11 heavens through which I found a simple fix the the bounding issues with the ablock theme.

According to the 11heavens link, Drupal supplies a css class to fix the bounding issues I was experiencing on this site with the current theme. I have now filed an issue for it to be fixed.

Interweb Troubles

Apparently this site (and others I am hosting) are not available to a lot of people in the UK.

Problem seems to be focussed on the Virgin Media/Cable & Wireless network with time-outs taking place on the hop after atlas.cogentco.com.

VM are not accepting that the problem is on their end, which is bonkers as users of other ISP's can connect.

I myself am posting this using a VPN connection via Anchorfree's Hotspot Shield. (they deserve the free advert as they are saving my proverbial backside).