Schinckel.net

Nardac, a new Blogsome user, tried out my Page Templates hack, and asked the following question:

I’m having a hard time getting the pages to work. I think I’ve followed your instructions to a tee… but well… hmmm… can you take a look?
the page in question is http://nardac.blogsome.com/nardac/

I looked, and what is occurring is that his normal blog index page is appearing. So I tried the same with my blog: http://schinckel.net/schinckel/ - I know I don’t have a Page with this name, so I was interested to see what occurred. It too showed my index page. Looking down the bottom, I see the arguments that are passed to the server, and in this case, only the blog name is being sent (wpblog=schinckel). So, it seems that a page with the same name as the blog name cannot be used. I suspect this has something to do with the HTTP Rewrite Rules, but I’m not sure. I don’t see it as a big issue, anyway. Workaround: Don’t use your blog’s name as a Page name.

I’ve noticed that Mail.app really takes ages to render HTML emails, or those with images in them. Seconds elapse between clicking on a message, and it fully rendering in the preview pane.

Ben Elton is pretty fantastic. He wrote for The Young Ones, and Blackadder, and has since written several books, most of which are pretty good. His latest is The First Casualty, a historical fiction (?) piece set during the Great War. I was gripped, and read it in one sitting. No comedy here, guys, but well worth the effort. The guts of the story: in 1917, a war hero and poet is killed, not in action, but while recuperating after being injured, and shellshocked. A disgraced police officer, who was sent to jail for refusing to fight in the war (not a conchie, as his grounds were “purely intellectual”) is ‘recruited’ to find the identity of the killer.

From Scot Hacker’s blog:

If you have a 4G (Clickwheel) iPod, and you use it, don’t install iPod Software 3.1.1. This version of the firmware causes the iPod to crash sometimes, even often, when going to sleep or waking up. You then need to do a force-reset (hold MENU & SELECT for 6-10 secs) in order to cause it to spin up, losing your place in a bookmarkable file, and possibly play counts for other tracks. I downgraded (using the Restore feature from iPod Updater 2005-09-23.app), and haven’t had a single crash since.