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About fifteen days ago I placed an order at Lenovo.com (UK store) for nice little IdeaPad S10-3T netbook. Or, at least I thought I did. The ordering process failed multiple times, but hey – I want that netbook! On about the 5th go or so, success! They accepted the order and I waited.

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It has been brought to my attention that this current site theme isn’t girly enough. Due to having spent an inordinate amount of time picking out a WordPress theme for another site, I’m not really in a hurry to go and do it again.

While I do like the nice smooth rainbow colours of this one, it does unfortunately seem to suggest I like to be bummed. So it must be changed.

This is wrong. Accounts were not leaked.

It seems the sites that are reporting the story that tens of thousands of account details have been publicly published aren’t being clear. These details have been obtained due to phishing, and not due to details being leaked from the respective services.

If you haven’t been stupid and entered your account details where you shouldn’t have (on a website; the most popular one being some thing where you can see who has blocked you on MSN Messenger), then you are fine – no need to change your password or anything.

Alright. Due to changes YouTube made to how their guff works, YouChoob stopped working. Thanks to Avoidz for letting me know about this problem; I’ve now released an updated version that gets everything working again. Plus, the video quality detection is much better, too!

I’m thinking of adding a video quality selection dialog in the next version that’ll allow you to choose which version of the video you want to do download. Or not. Dunno yet.

View: YouChoob

Software downloads available on Software.BootBlock.co.uk have been relocated. I need to add a link checker to the application I use to maintain that area to ensure that all the download links actually work.

There was something else I wanted to say, but kinda forgot what it was. Will update this post later when I remember.

The server move is complete! The forum is back (and now advertised above), along with the addition of a wiki for my software. Waah, a wiki?! Yeah, click on the link above but do note that at the time of writing there’s only Comical in there.

Email is also back up and running, so, yeah, whatever. What, you don’t actually expect me to reply to you, do you?

Twitter is a stupid fad of little worth used by people who think they’re intellectually above everybody else but have an overwhelming urge to let those loser everybodies know how much their morning dump weighs mere moments after it came dribbling out of their flap. They’re fad-driven arseholes and I hate them.

I signed up for a Twitter account about ten minutes ago.

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What a bunch of scummy bastards.

I decided to move away from 1and1 Internet a while ago because the features they offer are still stuck in the 90s with their tiny monthly transfer and instead went with UK2.net as they’re not so freakin’ archaic (although they have a terrible-looking control panel). I’m still with 1and1 because I want to make sure no more mail is incoming via my tnk-bootblock.co.uk domain and their domain transfer procedure is a massive pain in the arse.

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My main email account has spacked out; I can receive mails fine, but I just cannot reply to them. I thought this would have been solved quickly, but it hasn’t – so I’m making this posting. If you’ve mailed me and haven’t gotten a reply back yet… this is why.

Woah, wait! I’m not going to blather on about Chrome like a lot of people are currently doing. Okay, I’m not going to slag it off like a lot are doing, and I’m not going to praise it as the best browser in the world. Like a lot of people are also doing.

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