Internet Archive

My Colin told me about this website, which is great! I found my old websites, alluded to in the history of my website - they’re truly dreadful, I have to say, but not as bad as the infamous green of the website of the company I used to work at before it was taken over by the Americans.

The point of looking here was actually to find the FGP Wiki website that seems to have disappeared off the face of the planet just because I became interested in Flash game programming. My Colin also told me about FGPWiki, and I had a quick look during the week, thinking I’d look at it properly at the weekend. But come the weekend, and it’s gone! I get the old Server not found message every time I check. What’s happened? Is the world conspiring against me, just because I found something interesting and useful? I could have written the next big Flash game to help some other PhD student procrastinate as much as I do with Desktop Tower Defence!

So anyway, now that I’m able to follow the links on the FGP Wiki (the problem with Google cache is that I’d have to do a Google search for every page I wanted to look at) easily, there should be no stopping me. Except that it’s too late on a Sunday evening to start anything like that now. It’s going to have to wait until next weekend.

I just hope that someone archives the Internet Archive between now and then….

Why is the Internet so broken? Why are pages and pages of links set up and consequently neglected, so that when you find something that looks useful, it’s not there anymore?

“Argh and gah,” I say, frustratedly.

The Internet is working fine, now.

The Hubster will be most glad to hear this, as he’s been fretting, bless him.

I broke the Internet when I was messing with the WebCam earlier. There was a USB problem, so I stopped unplugged the wireless thing, which is plugged into a USB port. It totally refused to work again, after that. I rebooted the computer, did ipconfig things in the command prompt. All sorts (no, not liquorice). I found the CD that came with the wireless thing, and used it to reinstall the thing. Several times. The monitor claimed that it was in contact with the access point, but that the access point was not connected to the Internet. Such lies. The laptop accessed the Internet quite happily, using the same access point.

After the computer bluescreened and rebooted, I reinstalled the wireless thing again, this time leaving it plugged in - it says to have it unplugged before you install the software. Magically, it worked, although it still claims not to be able to see the Internet.

You heard it here first: bluescreens are not the kiss of death they once were…

Someone’s left an unsecured wireless network knocking about, which is handy, because mine’s playing up! It just needs reconnecting to, but I thought I might as well use this one for a laugh

I wanted to make Lynx-users not have to scroll past the links in what is the sidebar in non-text browsers, but I didn’t know how, but now I’ve done it. You can now skip the menu and then skip the links. I’ve done them separately because the menu may still prove useful. I may add a skip-all-navigation type thingy-widget.

I’ve just downloaded Lynx, the text-only browser. I did it because I was curious. I never thought it would open in a command prompt! I’m not really sure what I expected; possible a normal browser-type window, with a text-box in it.

My site is ok, except for the sidebar - I’d rather not have the list of links if the reader is going to be using Lynx. I wonder how can I can remove it.