I opened a PayPal dispute and they closed it because it had been longer than 45 days since I bought it. Some stuff takes nearly that long just to arrive from China! As usual PayPal are cocks.

I left the seller negative feedback because he refused to accept a return. I asked Santander about a charge-back but they refused too, the asshats.

http://spawnlinux.dyndns.org/Bliss-Box/technical.html

It violates my copyright on some of the images such as the schematic and connector diagrams. It also violates the GPL by using V-USB and not publishing the relevant code. Chances are it probably uses some of my GPL’ed code, and the author admitted that it is based off some of Ralph’s code too (also GPL).

I emailed the guy but he is refusing to give any attribution, publish anything or provide any links back to the relevant sites.

Since he used his own server in dyndns I tracked him back to somewhere in Florida, using Warner Cable via Road Runner. I have sent complains to both of them.

On the one hand it’s good that the BNP can’t use it for propaganda so easily, but the lack of structure means you have no chance of being read unless you post in the first minute of the debate.

The BBC seems to hold the opinions of the general public in high regard. Unfortunately most people are ignorant but still want their say, so some ranking is required. Otherwise you might as well talk to a brick wall for all the good it will do since no matter how insightful and considered your words are no-one will read them.

It also results in a lot id reparation. If people replied to each other the debate might move forwards. Wait, what am I saying? This isn’t a debate.

I clicked “next” and IE8 came up with a window asking me to choose my settings. I closed it and selected Firefox from the available options. Internet Explorer opened and downloaded Firefox. I installed it and the browser ballot window was still there. I closed the ballot window and rebooted.

The ballot came up again, but this time even worse:

This thing is horribly broken. Even when you have installed another browser it tries to force you back to IE. It didn’t delete the IE icon off the desktop or Quick Launch either.

The interface is quite basic. You can add tasks and indent them to give it a bit of basic structure. It gives you multiple lists which at first seemed a bit cumbersome; I’d like to see an overview of all tasks. Having used it for a while I think it’s actually not such a bad idea.

Tasks is integrated into gMail and iGoogle, but I mostly use it via the Firefox sidebar (use https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig) and gTasks on Android.

It’s not as advanced as some services, but it is fast and simple.

#viewsource {
color: #f8f8f2 !important;
}

body {
background-color: #272822;
color: #f8f8f2;
border: 0 0 0 0;
padding: 0 0 0 0;
margin: 0 0 0 0;
}

body > pre {
background-color: #272822;
color: #f8f8f2;
}

body > * {
background-color: #fff;
color: #00f;
}

pre {
background-color: #272822;
color: #f8f8f2;
}

pre > a:link {
color: #65ff00;
}

div[class=moz-text-html] {
background-color: #fff;
color: #000;
padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
}

div[class=moz-text-html] > table {
background-color: #fff !important;
color: #000 !important;
}

div[class=moz-text-plain] {
background-color: #272822;
color: #f8f8f2;
padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
}

*[_moz_dirty] {
color: #f8f8f2;
background-color: #272822;
}

*[_moz_quote=true] {
color: #ffcb00;
}

/* Quote Levels Colors */

blockquote[type=cite] > pre {
color: #ffcb00;
}

blockquote[type=cite] blockquote > pre{
color: #fd6500;
}

blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote > pre {
color: #00a000;
}

blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote > pre {
color: purple;
}

blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote blockquote > pre {
color: teal;
}

Anyway, here is the current list:

AutoRewarp *

British English Dictionary

Compact Header

GMail Conversation View

keyconfig

NoBlankQuote *

PlainAddress

Quote Colors

SmartTemplate

SmoothWheel

Text Link

I use a dark but vibrant colour scheme:

Add the following to userChrome.css:

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");

#folderTree {
 background-color: #272822 !important;
 color: #f8f8f2 !important;
}

#folderTree treechildren:-moz-tree-cell-text(selected),
#folderTree treechildren:-moz-tree-cell-text(selected, focus),
#folderTree treechildren::-moz-tree-row(selected, focus),
#folderTree treechildren::-moz-tree-row(selected) {
 background-color: #555753 !important;
 color: #f8f8f2 !important;
}

#threadTree {
 background-color: #272822 !important;
 color: #f8f8f2 !important;
}

#threadTree treechildren:-moz-tree-cell-text(selected),
#threadTree treechildren:-moz-tree-cell-text(selected, focus),
#threadTree treechildren::-moz-tree-row(selected, focus),
#threadTree treechildren::-moz-tree-row(selected) {
 background-color: #555753 !important;
 color: #f8f8f2 !important;
}

#content-frame[editortype=textmail] {
 padding-left: 5px;
 background-color: #272822;
}

Add this to userContent.css:

#viewsource {
 color: #f8f8f2 !important;
}

body {
 background-color: #272822;
 color: #f8f8f2;
 border: 0 0 0 0;
 padding: 0 0 0 0;
 margin: 0 0 0 0;
}

body > pre {
 background-color: #272822;
 color: #f8f8f2;
}

body > * {
 background-color: #fff;
 color: #000;
}

pre {
 background-color: #272822;
 color: #f8f8f2;
}

pre > a:link {
 color: #65ff00;
}

div[class=moz-text-html] {
 background-color: #fff !important;
 color: #000 !important;
 padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
}

div[class=moz-text-plain] {
 background-color: #272822;
 color: #f8f8f2;
 padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
}

*[_moz_dirty] {
 color: #f8f8f2;
 background-color: #272822;
}

*[_moz_quote=true] {
 color: #ffcb00;
}

/* Quote Levels Colors */
blockquote[type=cite] {
 background-color: #272822;
}

blockquote[type=cite] > pre {
 color: #ffcb00;
}

blockquote[type=cite] blockquote > pre{
 color: #fd6500;
}

blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote > pre {
 color: #00a000;
}

blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote > pre {
 color: purple;
}

blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote blockquote > pre {
 color: teal;
}

Stupidity, American-centric ideas and the ability of people with too much time on their hands to enforce their personal preferences has not only driven a lot of good editors away, but it has also done a lot of damage to the content too.

If you compare the Japanese version to the English one the contrasting work together/I’m always right attitudes, as well as numerous other flaws, become obvious. I’m not going to waste my time any more.

Well, except perhaps on keeping the PC World article full of my own opinions. I never said I wasn’t as bad as the rest of them.

I’d like to think that it’s the BBC taking notice of my complaints and doing something about them. However, I have a feeling that there may be a more sinister cause. Maybe the BNP shills have toned down their campaign a bit. After all, most of the top rated posts still consist of extreme right wing bullshit.

Even if the latter is the case, I’d say it’s still a positive development.

Nice one. You broke the most important page on your site.