(With an E on the end)
Of minor interest is that the homepage previously at http://katharineberry.co.uk now just redirects to http://blog.katharineberry.co.uk, as most of the content there was outdated or defunct – and there was never much there in the first place. Anything else at katharineberry.co.uk (if anything) still works.
Ah well. 
I haven’t actually posted anything in a while. This is because during holidays I take a break from doing anything productive whatsoever.
AjaxLife updates will resume soonish, as soon as I get the backlog of schoolwork out of the way – although development will remain sluggish until mid-June or so, when I’m finished with all my exams and such. But IE6-in-corporate-environment users, I have not forgotten you! Stay tuned for fixes!
Oh, and I have a fancy new computer. Woohoo. Here’s a nice pair of screenshots:
Or, at least, here would be a nice pair of screenshots if WordPress 2.5′s upload facility wasn’t broken with calls to ctype_digit (which doesn’t exist) – what’s wrong with is_numeric (in fact, the patch to rectify the error just replaces all instances of ctype_digit with is_numeric – but I’m far too lazy to do that myself)?
Anyway. Blah blah blah. Exams suck, coursework moreso. Also, this is the first post with tags attached in a while.
[00:19 GMT] Everything except the JSON-SL Search interface and TG mapping are back. The former was being abused to the point of a DoS attack, the latter was accidentally deleted due to a stupid UI.
[00:08 GMT] Everything except services.katharineberry.co.uk is back. Going to work out what to do about that…
Numerous websites of mine have been disabled while I work out what’s murdering my server. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. This blog and AjaxLife will remain functional as much as possible.
I have been asked to post this on my personal blog, so…
Stupid OU
That is all. Also, the level of paranoia utilised by the Schome project is absurd.
(“OU” standing for “Open University”)
People seem to get here via searches for questions that aren’t answered here all the time. Here are some answers to those questions, in the hope that they can get something useful out of it:
Warning: Unknown property ‘zoom’. Declaration dropped. – also Warning: Unknown property ‘filter’. Declaration dropped.
This is a warning thrown by FireFox (or anything else based on Gecko/Mozilla) that is unimportant. “Zoom” is a CSS property that is specific to Internet Explorer, and is frequently used to work around annoying bugs in said browser. The same applies to “filter”, although it has some other unimportant uses too. Everything else just ignores it, sometimes emitting annoying warnings like the above. The message is harmless.
osgrid
Alternate SL grid based on OpenSim. Find it over here.
deepgrid
Another OpenSim grid. See their website (down at the time of writing).
uncancel second life account
You can uncancel your SL account from the SL account page after logging in using said account – however, this only works up to two months after your account is cancelled, and after the first month your land will be reclaimed.
Uploading sound or MP3 files (in SL)
SL will let you upload wav files of less than (but not equal to) 10.0 seconds. The files must be 44.1KHz. Try using Audacity to achieve this. Uploading sounds via LSL is impossible without awkward hacks.
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server, or alternatively Bad Gateway
This is an Apache error message. It means that an attempt by mod_proxy to contact another server failed. Basically, the website’s down. In relation to AjaxLife, it means that the main AjaxLife server crashed, but the physical machine is still responsive.
SLeek Development
Go look at Delta’s blog.
SLeek on mono/Ubuntu
As far as I know, is impossible, at least as of now. Same goes for OS X.
This ends a largely off-topic post. I omitted the searches involving my name combined with variations on beds, on the basis I neither know nor care what they’re on about. Also, “logmein logs me out” is a rather amusing issue, but not one I can help with.
Here’s a nice graph of weekly views, courtesy of WordPress’ stats:
The blog is clearly dying off.
Points of interest: The first spike is a few days after I announced AjaxLife, when it was picked up on the SLED list. The second is AjaxLife being picked up on Reddit. The rest is me failing to do anything of interest.
On another note: I just put up a bunch of real pictures on Flickr. They took hours to put up on the 1KB/s (4KB/s at peak) internet connection on this boat, so enjoy them! (Even though they were all shot with the somewhat dubious iPhone camera)
There’s a donation button in the sidebar. Please donate.
Most likely the donations will pay for the AjaxLife server fees, on the basis they’re highly unlikely to exceed a total of £10 ever. (which is significantly less than the monthly fee for its server)
Side note: see small text under the button.
I reverted the site to the default theme, because it consistently crashed Safari 2.
I’ll be putting it back shortly after Leopard is released, assuming it has a finalised version of Safari 3.
Due to Akismet becoming slightly less effective, and sometimes letting spam comments through, your first comment here will have to pass through moderation. (On this blog so far, its accuracy is just over 99.8% – so it still works pretty well.)
In order to avoid subsequent comments also being jammed in moderation, please do not change your name/email address – if you do, it’ll count this as your first comment (again), and hold it for moderation. Which is more work for me. :p
