Mid-term Break

I sat all morning in the college sick bay
Counting bells knelling classes to a close,
At two o’clock our neighbors drove me home.

In the porch I met my father crying–
He had always taken funerals in his stride–
And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.

The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram
When I came in, and I was embarrassed
By old men standing up to shake my hand

And tell me they were “sorry for my trouble,”
Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,
Away at school, as my mother held my hand

In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs.
At ten o’clock the ambulance arrived
With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.

Next morning I went up into the room. Snowdrops
And candles soothed the bedside; I saw him
For the first time in six weeks. Paler now,

Wearing a poppy bruise on the left temple,
He lay in the four foot box as in a cot.
No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.

A four foot box, a foot for every year.

Seamus Heaney

Google loves to try and lead the way, but they actually piss me off sometimes, recently they reduced the PR of a popular site we run to 0 and won’t tell us why it was dropped so dramatically making it impossible to correct any issues to reinstate the high page rank.

Anyway that’s sour grapes.

If Google can deliver what they promise it will mean an end to webpages crashing whilst running some java script and forcing you to restart your whole browser because nothing works. Well the pages might still crash but the browser shouldn’t.

If you interested in learning more about Googles new browser you can visit their comic book presentation:

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

Googe Chrome is open source so anyone can develop for it, and for themselves which is very cool.

Will it just be yet another browser on the market?

I’m not sure, I suppose we’ll just have to wait and see how it preforms and what it actually does feature wise.

NOTE: This beta version has two serious bugs which could leave your computer vulnerable!

I then often find I’ve got the website on-line, dedicated hours, days, weeks and sometimes even months only to receive no communication from the third party. They’d disappear just about the time they were due to actually do some work.

Because of that I’ve got some domain names that could really do with being used so perhaps if your reading this with an interest running a paranormal website or you’ve already got a group and the domain would help then get in touch with me through our support website @

http://support.sjbowers.co.uk

These are some of the domains:

Yorkshire Paranormal:

http://yorkshireparanormal.net

http://yorkshireparanormal.com

http://yorkshireparanormal.co.uk

Northern Paranormal:

http://www.northernparanormal.com

http://www.northernparanormal.co.uk

Ghost Experiences:

http://ghostexperiences.net

http://ghostexperiences.com

http://ghostexperiences.co.uk

Haunted Locations:

http://hauntedlocation.net

http://hauntedlocation.com

http://hauntedlocation.co.uk

There are other domains also but this is a start, perhaps you’d be interested in running your club at one of these domains, or you’d be interested in a joint project.

Haunted Locations:

As you will see there are already two websites on this domain, one is hidden behind a template and is in fact wiki which was going to be a place for people to document historical information, ghost stories, location photos and the other website was going to be a directory of public domain contact details for locations

Ghost Experience:

The original owner of the domain wanted to run a commercial project but backed out.

I was then going to use it as video hosting website similar to that of Google, Youtube but for all things paranormal.

Northern Paranormal and Yorkshire Paranormal were originally for start-up paranormal groups that ended up not paying for the domains or using the website

Get in contact if your interested in some form of partnership or you wish to run your own website.

For those that don’t know ICANN are basically the guys who regulate domain name extentions like .co.uk or .com and tld simply means top level domain.

When they open this tin of worms initially it will be a costly process so we may not see too much change straight away however, but imagine the cost to protects ones brand once the costs come down. You already have idiots running around buying up cool domain names and then trying to make their millions reselling those names. So what when theyhave unlimited possibilities.

Personally I’d like to see more restrictions on how people can get those names and more laws to make them hand em over for real reason. If they use the domain fine, but it annoys me when they buy these domains simple to put them on a drop page or use a page generator, you know those annoying search pages with only google ad’s or some other form of advertising. They contribute nothing to any society or anything on the web, they only server as an annoyance.

So in the future we could see domains ending in .msn, .england, .wales, .scotland, .ireland, or any amount of endless possibilities. Could you image E-mail addresses like jim@college.england

The thought of it is cool, but I just hope it’s done with caution I’d hate to see become harder for the small guy or gal to protect their business brand and label. It will become more costly for them protect their brands and labels for sure. .com .org. co.uk .info .net .ws .sc .ca .fr .de .es . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  and thousands more coming this way soon.

You can read more about this over at Yahoo

I installed FireFox 3 and it was driving me nuts, there seemed to be no back button to go back several pages at once. So at first I was clicking and clicking until I was on the verge of going back to an older FireFox version. I did a quick google search after figuring out I couldn’t be the only one annoyed at this, it was then that I found anders website.

These snap shots are also taken from Anders website:

As you see in Firefox there is only one drop down next to the back and forward buttons, which implied to me that you could only go forward.

However as pointed out by Anders, this drop down allows you to back and forwards. It shows you which point you are at with the black dot next to the one your currently veiwing:

Personally I think this should be between the back and next buttons, but now I know it’s there I’m happy.

There are still a couple of other annoyances though, but on a whole I’m now happier with FireFox 3.

So once again, thanks Anders.