To stop you thinking this blog had died, this is a post to say that I haven’t forgoten about this site, I’ve just been too busy to do anything on it recently. There’s a few things I’ll be posting about in the next few weeks including running a network drive as storage for Recorded TV for the house as well as a new SIP phone (internet telephony).
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Yes, I am still here!
Friday, September 25th, 2009No recent posts, but I have found Windows7 RC and Spotify…
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009Not done a fraction of the updates on this site that I thought I would have in the last 2 months; I’ve been busy at work and spent the last 3 weeks sorting out new car (which takes up more time than you’d think). However things seem to be back on track and I’ve installed the Windows7 Release Candidate on both my lounge and bedroom systems and I’m incredibly impressed; I’ll post a detailed opinion this week on it. However my other big find (for me anyway) is Spotify, a small (1.5Mb) program that looks like iTunes but plays pretty much any album or track you can think of. It streams the audio peer-to-peer and the free version plays ads every 10 – 15 minutes, but in my experience so far the later in the day it is, the less adverts you hear. Spotify: an absolutely brilliant idea!
Microsoft Live Search problems
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009The design and content on this site has slowed down in the last month due to me working on my work’s website and also that I’ve started to watch HBO’s Carnivale series. Other HBO favourites being OZ and The Wire; some truly great TV. However this has its setback, when the wife wants to sit down and start watching a UK TV series then I’m bloody bored stiff; British TV just doesn’t quite cut the mustard.
But the biggest annoyance with this site is that I have submitted it in all the neccessary search engines, however with Microsoft’s Live search I have reached a deadend. Even submitting my site properly and checking the sitemap for accuracy, they index me with the wrong address; as http://mediacenterhouse.com i.e. without the www.
Trying to search for this problem brings no real answers other than Live search seems a bit broken and it’s hit-and-miss as to whether this will fix itself automatically; I expect it will crawl this site properly one day. It’s damn annoying as Live does recognise quite a few good backlinks to this site but is only indexing one page, and it’s the wrong one. (I think this is known as the incorrect canonicalisation of the address, apparently!?). Google and Yahoo work a treat and all within a few days of submition.
So if you come across this page as a result of searching for Live search problems then take heart in that you’re not the only one. Go and watch an HBO series instead to cheer yourself up.
New month, new image hosting…
Sunday, February 8th, 2009Apologies if any images have failed to appear over the last week or so, I’ve been away and in my absence Photobucket limited my hosting! I’m gradually moving all the image hosting over to this site (away from Photobucket) and will also soon create posts detailing the sections of work I have done, and intend to do…