Available my arse

[ Posted by Gilly Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:12:43 GMT ]

I like the ward I'm in in Southampton Hospital. Piam Brown, it's called. The staff are all friendly and nice; and while the ward could do with an expansion (i.e. more rooms - it's always completely full), it's generally a great place to have treatment (if you have to have treatment :P).

It's even got an education room, which has two computers and stuff. Internet access and all that. It even has a wireless network. "Great!" you may think, "all the patients and parents and people will be able to use the interweb!"

Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

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Downtime

[ Posted by Gilly Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:32:53 GMT ]

Well, after an extended period of downtime, I'm back. Or am I?

I must confess that a large part of that was 10 hours reading Harry Potter 7

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Last.fm thing

[ Posted by Gilly Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:43:05 GMT ]

Warning, this is a pretty "techincal" post, and you should probably only bother reading it if you maintain a website yourself; there's not really much point otherwise as it won't be of any relevance.

Now, you may have noticed the thing on the right hand side of the page that seems to just have a load of rotating square pictures

That's my "Last.fm album quilt", as they call it, and it shows the latest however many albums that I've listened to. That's because I've got a Last.fm account, and an Audioscrobbler plugin for my media player.

Now, you may be thinking "What the hell is this guy on about?" and I don't blame you. However, let me explain. Audioscrobbler, the plugin for my media player (there's a plugin for pretty much any media player for your computer) submits what track I'm listening to to my Last.fm account. This then records and displays it for all to see, so people with similar music tastes can get in contact with me, or the site can recommend similar artists and albums, etc.

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