Filey Beach to Filey Brigg via drone on, alas, a rather dirty April day.
Monthly Archives: May 2023
Period Sites in Period Browsers – An Update
Well, it’s been a little while since I last added one of these to my little retro internet project but… welcome to Windows XP Home x86 with Mozilla Suite 1.0 which is now on Period Sites in Period Browsers.
I have also taken the opportunity to renovate the the various tag pages and add a lot more information to them! Why not go and take a look!
Dot Zip Domains Considered Harmful
So… it appears that Google, in their infinite wisdom stupidity, has bought and launched the top level domain ‘zip’ and thus introduced such wonderful domains as ‘https://details.zip’, ‘http://taxforms.zip’ or, as you can see below, ‘https://financialstatement.zip‘. And thus possibly confusing everyone, for ever, all of the time.
But Google is not alone in partaking in this stupidity. ICANN, who should have been on the ball and who already had rules about homophones in UTF domains, seem to have let this slip though without a single thought.
The damned fools.
Random Acts of Top of the Pops: #4 – February 24th, 1994
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Episode Number: 1564
First Shown: 7.00pm on February 24th, 1994
Presenter(s): Bruno Brookes
Official Top 40: @The Official Charts
Studio: BBC Elstree Centre
iPlayer: Top of the Pops – February 24th, 1994
BBC Genome: Here!
Disabling Windows XP Ballon Tips
And it’s time for an aide-mémoire for a fact that seems to be disappearing into the ether.
Windows XP bubble tips can be disabled by:
- Opening Regedit
- Navigating to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
- Creating a new String value of ‘EnableBubbleTips’.
- Setting this value to ‘0’.
- Restarting Windows.
