NetBloke.com - Sausage Slave
Publication Date: 22/08/2002
ISSN 1445-1360
Publication Date: 22/08/2002
ISSN 1445-1360
How busy have I been? Well it appears to busy to keep everyone up
to date via the NetBloke newsletter. However I am going to try
and change this.
At Sausage I have been busy helping launch Sausage Hosting, which
is to be followed up soon by Sausage Domains. Both services will
allow our customers to have great service at low pricing. It also
completes a package that allows us to look after all of your
Webmaster needs.
On another note, I am sending this out today in the hope that
any of you who are either going to Gnomedex 2002 or still
considering it, will remember to look for me during the event. I
would love to meet some of you that I have not had the pleasure
to yet!
Talking of meeting people I was lucky enough to meet Eric Bass, a
long time HotDog user, when I was on my business trip to Seattle.
Eric put me up for a couple of nights and took me out to an
amazing Italian restaurant. The gnocchi was the best I have ever
had!
I also went to Victoria, BC, Canada, Blaine, Washington and San
Francisco, California. A very hectic trip, but meeting new propel
and old friends makes it all worth while.
Finally last weekend we did a run down to Kentucky to pick up
Hayden who spent a week or so with her cousins. It is really nice
to know you have great in laws that can be relied upon in times of
need! However having to drive 24 out of 36 hours is not very much
fun. You do get to sample a variety of fast food though!
Seeya later alligator!
Nathan Allan
Whacked
I am just so whacked at the moment that I don't know when one day
ends and the next begins.
Of course "whacked" means to be tired or exhausted, or for that
matter it can mean you are intoxicated, which I definitely am
not!
Use WindowsUpdate.com when you are having problems with your
computer. If your not just get the security updates (why fix it
if it isn't broke?). The site will automatically scan your
computer for any updates it has for the operating system or
drivers for your components and peripherals.
I have just used it on a new machine I built for my mother in law
(which I will detail next issue). It has helped me to update the
Windows 2000 install I have.
http://www.windowsupdate.com
Here is a review of a program I found very useful - I wrote the
review for this weeks Sizzler. It will be useful for those of you
with Web sites.
E Cloaker 2.0 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP with IE4.0+ FREE
http://www.codefoot.com/software/ecloaker/index.html
This is a cool little app that someone pointed out to me a long time
ago, however in my hundreds of emails I seemed to loose it along the
way.
I am glad I found it as I intend on using it to cloak all the email
addresses on the Sausage site and my own personal NetBloke site. What
do I mean by cloak? well through its simple interface E Cloaker
allows you to enter the email address and link text for a simple
mailto: link. It then converts this into Unicode. The aim is to make
it harder for bots that sweep your web pages for email addresses.
In theory I believe this should work. If you are a smart cookie you
could even use it to convert email addresses and put it into other
sorts of links or references, just to make sure all of your addresses
are cloaked.
I would show an example of the code created, however it would be
translated into normal text by your browser! So go out and give it a
try yourself.
From Hugh Andrew, a fellow Aussie stranded in the UK.
A husband and wife were having dinner at a very fine restaurant
when this absolutely stunning young woman comes over to their
table, gives the husband a big open mouthed kiss, says she'll see
him later and walks away.
The wife glares at her husband and says, "Who the hell was that?"
"Oh," replies the husband, "she's my mistress."
"Well, that's the last straw," says the wife. "I've had enough, I
want a divorce!"
"I can understand that," replies her husband, "but remember, if
we get a divorce it will mean no more shopping trips to Paris, no
more wintering in Barbados, no more summers in Tuscany, no more
Lexus in the garage and no more yacht club. But the decision is
yours."
Just then, a mutual friend enters the restaurant with a gorgeous
babe on his arm.
"Who's that woman with Jim?" asks the wife.
"That's his mistress," says her husband.
His wife pauses for a split second: "Ours is prettier".
