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Here is a list of crazy ideas to lower the price of patrol.

10. Make all roads downhill
9. Cheaper self-service price if you pump the oil and refine it yourself
8. Gas comes from dinosaurs, so all we need are more dinosaurs
7. Invade Iraq
6. Give Cheney a sawed-off shotgun and have him stick up an Exxon
5. Tax cuts for the rich
4. Get Bush and the middle east to straighten everything out on Oprah
3. Jet packs for everyone
2. Gas only costs 12 cents a gallon in Venezuela; drive to Venezuela for gas
1. Get tubby genius Al Gore to figure it out

Another piece of pointless found on the internet. This image generator, makes a tiny ninja that cuts out a text of your choosing. Try it yourself.

If your interested these sort of images that are created automatically with your own text, there is a cool directory of called Txt2Pic. Here there an extensive list of generators of images, far to many to note. But if you want change image to text, read the blog on JPG2TXT.

Microsoft’s new OS, Vista, includes a new speech recognition. At a very public demo of this new software, unfortunately it doesn’t quite go to plan. It is fun to see Microsoft Vista being knocked off it’s high horse. Watch video

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Lots of change in the design of the last couple of days. Researching on the internet, I found an Xhtml validation site called validator.w3.org. I found that my site was horriblely invalid from the analysised and comparing to the XHTML specifaction. So while I was in the mood to get rid of all the errors, I thought I would make some improvement lots of things on the site that was bothering me.

No more left hand pannel

The left hand pannel is completely been removed. The new right hand pannel, is a mix of the old right and left pannels. There are less links to other posts, but it means that the page is much less busy. What is displayed on the right pannel depends on what page you are on. This new design means that there is now space on the page for the posts to be displayed.

Search plugin

The old search plug-in used to use a google site search to look up your keyword. In the last week, google decided to add to it’s index, lots of links to addresses on the old design, V2. Even through, even if you go to these pages, you can taken to the address of where it is on the new page. This index problem, means that the search plugin as it was, was not good enough. So the new plug-in, uses the in-site search (see top right). It means that only the posts can be searched through and not the other pages and subdomains, the largest percent of this site’s content is in the form of posts.

Categories change around

The set of categories are arranged has changed. The sub-category updates has now become a category in it’s own right. Images was down-graded to a sub-category of stuff. I will try to redirect the old addresses to the new to stop any problems.

Can you digg it

Digg has become one of the biggest and most popular linking site on the internet at the moment. It was time that Spacedmonkey supported digg. So at the bottom of every post, there is a link that automatically adds that post to digg. Hope you find this useful.

Trackback

A TrackBack is a mechanism for communication between blogs: if a blogger writes a new entry commenting on, or referring to, an entry found at another blog, and both blogging tools support the TrackBack protocol, then the commenting blogger can notify the other blog with a “TrackBack ping”; the receiving blog will typically display summaries of, and links to, all the commenting entries below the original entry. The new design has a easily to see and copy trackback address assigned to each post. These allows me and others user to use this address to link to each post.

Navigation bar reordered

The top navigation bar has be changed, the order of the items has changed. Also the broken links are now fixed.

Longer post titles

On the old left hand sidebar there was a list of the 10 most recent posts. Becuase of the way that the sidebar was formatted, It meant the post with titles more than 15 characters, mess up the list on the side of the page. Now the post’s title can be as long a I want.

RSS feed changes

Made some changes a while to the feed. As I have said to before, the computingcorner feed to no longer being updated, so please remove it from the feed reader. The most important change in the feed is that for longer posts, I add a “read more” link, splitting the post in two. It means that items in the feed are not extremly long. I also fixed an error, that means it displays better in Internet Explorer 7 reader.

XHTML ERRORS

I have removed all but a few of the errors in the template, so it means that the page will load faster. There are still lots of errors within the posts themselves, so all the page will never really be valid. I made some changes in the way that post’s html is generated, so the new posts will hopefullly be valid. With over 80 posts already on the site, It will takes days to change all the posts to valid html. At some point, I will fix these post but I do not have that kind of time.

Final thoughts

The design is new, I am sure there is going to be a few problems, specially, things like the search plug-in. They may be some more changes coming, which I will post about when they happen. If you have any problems, please use the contact form or email me.

10. Runs on 200 D batteries
9. In the morning you have to defrost it
8. Runs on Windows 78
7. Box reads Pre-loaded with hundreds of viruses!
6. Tech support number is a Silicon Valley burger king
5. For better internet reception, salesman includes pair of rabbit ears
4. You move the pointer around by licking the screen
3. It’s made by IBN
2. The mouse bit you
1. When you tell it to print, it tells you to go screw yourself

We have all seen pictures made out of set of characters. Lots of them are very simply made but there some more complexed ones out tehre. Personally I always wondered how it was done. I thought there simply must be a piece of software that does it for you out there. Turns out there is and it is completely free and online. The site is called JPG2TXT. I have tried lots of different pictures and some work better than others but give it a go. Here are some I have tried.

Noah Kalina takes a photo of himself everyday for 6 years, January 11, 2000 - July 31, 2006. Which is a total of 2356 Days. He is still doing it, it was a work in progress. It is a very clever idea but I am shocked someone really did have the time to do this. All the photos are formatted into a video and put to music. View the video on YouTube.