Skippy.org.uk

For those of you who remember what the Internet looked like in 1997, you will know the following. Hotmail was not owned by Microsoft, Yahoo was the only real search engine, BackRub Google had not yet been launched; Myspace, and Facebook were not on the Internet. forums were few and far between.

There was Bolt.com an American web site that didn’t suck (in the beginning) and it was really the only place to hang out.

over time it started sucking, and some time a few years back they brought out a Bolt2.com that sucked lots, and in an attempt to move the Regs from Bolt to Bolt2 they killed Bolt. oh and then they got sued out of existence; (read more on wikipedia)

Today i receved the following message via email

Bolt.com is Back! And it’s packed with new Features and Upgrades!!!
Hey Skippy,
We just wanted to let you know that Bolt is back! Come see your old profile and friends.  And check out Tagbooks and all the new features just launched!!
Looking forward to seeing you around the site,

Now unfortunately it is not bolt that they brought back, they revived Boltfolio a site that well.. Sucks.

So Close yet so Far; they failed to get the revival right.

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I managed to find this in a Children’s play area in East London (

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My Friend Meg found her own before me :’( her’s is on her blog here.

Can I recommend that people who design things for children’s areas keep up to date with those things that are well known on the web.

If you are not aware of what a goatse is; Can I recommend that you do not go in the direction of http://goatse.cz to find out;

As you may have spotted I have moved my blog. I am now hosted on Subvert.org.uk With thanks to Ben A’Lee. At the moment I haven’t moved all that much across; but it is my hope that over the next few days that should all change; and hopefully in time I will be able to move all the content that was hosted on TermiSoc’s servers.

Some of my other domains will be served from Subvert as well:

• Caple.eu
• Loupie.co.uk
• McGaw.eu
• Skippy.org.uk

Others will be let go; and hopefully others will be back soon.

And in other news:-

• If you have an Apple iPod Touch, or an Apple iPhone, there is a Plug-in on this blog that makes viewing it on a mobile device much nicer; so give that a go
• Hopefully my blog will be updated more often thanks to both the iPod/iPhone Blog tool, and Windows Live writer (Does any one know of one that will work on a Mac?).

This is what they call a discount?

 Taken in my local Woolworths, at lunch.

Gemma doesn’t seem to have picked up on this one yet, but a while ago Ben and I were talking in MSN, or Yahoo, and he showed me this link, to a woman (she is a Graphic Designer) in the US’s blog, and at the same time this link, to Gemma’s site, and asked me what was the same (the hint is to the right ->) it seems Ferris, doesn’t understand that linking to the copyright owners site is a good idea on the web.

Which all in all leads me onto my point about copyright infringement (please note that because a Picture is worth 1000 words, I have included the article that appeared in the Redbridge Guardian in its completeness, as its not online. (please click on for larger)

As stated in the previous blog post Ruth was involved with the Woodhouse players Little Mermaid. and I took some photos for, including the one on the right, and if your looking at it thinking you have seen it before, well yes, its the one in the news paper clipping. On the Wood hose players page the following is stated "Images by and © Skippy - http://PhilipMcGaw.com"; why is it that the Redbridge Guardian have failed even to state that the image was provided by the wood house players for inclusion in the article, there is space for the copyright, or reference directly below the image. I would not have minded having something like "image provided by Woodhouse players" as I gave the images to the WHP, but as it is the source of the image is unclear.

Which brings us back to Gods Copyright; in the conversation between Ben and me, he asked if because Ferris had stated

I am going to cherish a sunset that God has made previously and that someone else thought was so beautiful that it had to be captured by a photograph

Is this why she did not feel the need to reference Gemma for taking the photo?

Updated title with regards to bens post on Creationist Copyright.

In this article all copyright holders, and sources have been attributed, and items for which I don’t hold copyright have been used for Citation, I believe this is fair use, please tell me (in the comments section) if you disagree.

Dan the evil guy, who likes Google. (who try to do no evil) came up with an image of who is getting there arse’s kicked by the pod cast [see here] now at the moment I am in no danger of loosing to it, but i have remembered just how long ago my last post was, as such its time to fill in.

Since the 14th November I have not put fingers to keyboard once, towards putting information(?) in my blog!

so in the news.

1. New Job! - since the 28th of November, I have been working as an Assistant Engineer with a company called Kembrey Wiring Systems Ltd. There main product is boxes filled with wires, and connectors to go on British Aircraft, the job is not too bad, but can be a little slow, and monotonous at times.
2. Loupie’s Panto, Ruth was in a rendition of The Little Mermaid over Christmas, (you may have been told about it) and i took some of the photos that have since appeared on the Woodhouse Players site
3. Ruth and I pent Christmas and New year together, (your not having all the details :p).

There will be more to come, so enjoy

Via Spiney Head

Unkie Phil to be exsact.

Details are unlikly to follow due to my inabiltiy to say more in a public forum. (ask me via msn or something if you know me)

The reason Vista sucks is that it doesn’t need to be any good, because people will get it anyway. - Ben A’Lee

And i agree, Vista is so sucky that it did not last 10 days on my desktop, yes it was shiney, but it told me i didnt know how to use my computer, and locked me from doing things i wanted to do (all those files on a NTFS drive belong to Skippy, (XP install Skippy) not you Skippy, you need to log in as an Administrator, Mr Skippy of the Administrator group to change ownership to Skippy, from Skippy. that is not the only time that the rediculus security muck things up thing bugged me.

When using the computer, and you want to change your networking settings, do you want to wait for the screen to go gray, and then have to click a box which should have been marked "get out of my face, i know what i am doing!"

As for "easer and simpler file sharing" well the danm thing didn’t remember that the wire that connects it to the network is a trusted network (its a Desktop….) and my network has only trusted devices on it. so turing of the share //hlin/skippy$ every boot annoys the hell out of me.

Ben has had problems with that Internet Phone Company, As you remember, unsubscribing is a challange.

Yesterday I got the same e-mail that Ben did. however the day before that i got the following email:-

EXTO Ready To Hit US Market Ahead OF Schedule.

EXIT ONLY INC
EXTO.PK
Price: $0.43

The time table has been moved up. EXTO’s overwhelming success in Canada with its used car marketing site has stepped up its pace to expand its coverage. This new venue now moving to th…..

Whats suspicious is that it came through on the email address “vontage AT skip..” well there is only one company that used that email address to write to me, and only one company who knows about me being unable to spell there name wrong when I signed up.

As Ben sujests I am going to contact them, and i would ask them about both incidents.