After my whinge about the 0.9a2 (or whatever the ‘stable’ version was numbered), I downloaded the nightly development build, and it seems more stable. It also has a Pause/Resume butoon in the Downloads window. Doesn’t seem to like Resuming much though…
I’m surprised I’ve never come across this before. There is a town in Germany, about 200km from Hanover, called Schinkel. (Note the missing ‘c’) It’s just out of Osnabrück (less than 4km), and quite near the Hotel Westerkamp, and there seems to be a significant cemetary right nearby. Oh, hang on a bit, there’s also a Schinkel in Schleswig-Holstein, about 50km North-West of Hamburg. And another one, just a short hop across the river, in Land Niedersachsen. Finally, there’s also Schinkel-über-Kiel, right up on the northern edge of Germany. Just over Kiel, incidentally. As an aside, I found the following:
What does the Schinkel name mean? German (mainly North German) and Dutch: variant of Schenkel What does the Schenkel name mean? Last Name: Schenkel German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for someone with long or otherwise notable legs, from Middle High German schenkel, Middle Dutch schenkel, schinkel ‘thigh’, ‘lower leg’, German Schenkel ‘thigh’.
The irony is I have short legs…
I found an old entry on Peter B’s site about making text entry areas resizable, and thought I might implement it on my site. It’s not working yet, but this is more of a reminder for me to do it…
It’s nearly time for me to reconsider my DNS Registration – I went with a $9.95 Dreamhost annual price, under the belief it was $9.95/year for life, but this was only for one year. I don’t use any of the hosting features, just DNS registration, address forwarding and mail forwarding. I’m looking for a cheap registrar who offers these things. Anyone know of any DNS Registrars that are cheap and good?