donal's blog

so i've finally managed to get access to blogspot.com subdomains again (thanks to a ssh tunnel to a server on another network)! what follows is speculation based on the various reports on the internet (boards.ie; blogger's help group)... so it appears sometime in the past week (28feb / 01 mar), a change in NTL's routing policy has resulted in packets destined for blogspot IP space to be routed rather strangely (via various networks which are now owned by virgin)... |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | WinMTR statistics | | Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last | |------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------| | [removed] - 0 | 57 | 57 | 0 | 29 | 110 | 10 | | [removed].ntlworld.ie - 0 | ...

So I've been trying to get my picasa albums displayed in the sidebar for a while now... as yes - i finally have it working... more later... so this week I've been a little idle but I've made up for it by spend^H^H^H^H^Hwasting my time on social networking websites. I've finally given in and joined myspace because some people find that it's uptime is so much better than other messaging providers that use standard-based messaging systems like SMTP (email). I have 11 friends already which isn't half bad for being 20hrs-old myspace-virgin. ;) One thing that bugged me about blogger for a while was that you couldn't easily add content to the sidebar from other sites... since i last checked though Blogger have lauched a better page layout editor (myspace sucks in this field too btw) which is pretty easy to use. Thanks to the folk on the blogger discussion list at work (yes - working at Google does have it's advantages) I have managed to add my picasaweb albums...