Archive for September, 2004

Firefox: 1 million in 10 days

Saturday, September 18th, 2004

Amazing! Firefox are trying to get 1 million (that’s 1,000,000) users to download the latest incarnation of the Mozilla Firefox web browser in ten days. And it looks like they may well be on target, claiming “nearly 790,000 people have downloaded Firefox in 3 days”.
I’ve said before that I love the Firefox browser, […]

N

Saturday, September 18th, 2004

This game is doing my head in! It is so addictive!
You play the part of a ninja — hence the name of the game: N — whose task is to escape from each screen. Sounds simple, huh?
The best bit about the game, other than when you punch your hand in the air having […]

DOS Attacks

Saturday, September 18th, 2004

When I booted up my PC this morning I couldn’t access either my main e-mail accounts or website, so I shot off an e-mail (using another account) to Webfusion support at 08:23. At 09:08 I received the following reponse:
Hi,
Thank you for your query. Currently we are experiencing a denial of service attack at our […]

New College Alumni

Friday, September 17th, 2004

I got a newsletter in the mail this morning from New College, the Divinity school of The University of Edinburgh.
“This autumn sees a relaunch and expansion of activities of New College alumni” it told me. “There will be two standard events each year,” it continues, “on the opening day of the session in September […]

International Day of Prayer for Peace

Friday, September 17th, 2004

Churches representing over 550 million Christians world-wide have been invited for the first time to mark Tuesday 21 September as an International Day of Prayer for Peace.

Priest Idol

Friday, September 17th, 2004

Channel 4 will screen a new series which aims to boost a congregation in a parish with poor church attendance.

Money

Thursday, September 16th, 2004

I’ve spent most of my day off sitting in front of my PC entering my accounts from 2003 into Microsoft Money 2004.