The Richie G Website

March 1, 2009

Musings on the Internet how it used to be

Filed under: Life, the Universe and Everything — Tags: , , , — Richie G @ 4:16pm

I’ve been thinking a bit recently on how the Internet has changed a little bit.  For instance, I first discovered Google when first introduced to the Internet, by the fact that Yahoo!’s search was back then powered by Google.  I thought that if the Yahoo! search is being powered by Google, then surely I’d get quicker results by going directly there.  Now Google owns my life, not only in how I search the Internet, but I recently became the owner of a G1 mobile phone.

Yesterday while I was in the shower, for some reason I started thinking about the designs that have been on this very website in the past. I remember posting a copy of an old design which I found that had been done in MS Word, and other designs had been completed in MS Publisher and Dreamweaver before I started coding the pure HTML of sites.  One design that I remembered yesterday was composed mostly of lego, where all the page headings and the like were created in Lego and then photographed. I mention designs because I’m currently contemplating switching over to WordPress so I’ve actually got a website that works…

I’ve also been looking at some old websites that are still around, and earlier on today came across this little snippet of text: “If your browser can cope with it, there is a bigger version of this photo (1402×1170 pixels, 168 KB).”

I very much doubt that you’d need to put that on images any more…

I’ve also forgotton what the main point of this post was except to say that I’m still alive… Take care all.

November 18, 2006

Banana: Reprise

Filed under: Pre WordPress Posts — Tags: , , , — Richie G @ 12:00pm

I had an idea that I might be able to salvage some of my old posts thanks to Google’s Caching system, and I came across the infamous Ebay Banana stuff, but stuff I haven’t seen yet… until now that is. It would appear that while a lot of pepople over here thought the Banana was funny, a lot of people were really taking the piss… Observe these forum posts:

  • DriverHeaven.net: where I am referred to as ‘A Stupid Brit’, where ‘renovation’ reveals himself as the guy who went to pay £30,000 for the Banana, ‘MIG-31′ implys he’s bought two things off eBay without paying, and British irony seems to be lost on these people.
  • PCA Forums: which looks to be the same site, where the original SS Blog post was quoted, the potential buyer gives a sarcastic apology, and informs us that this was reported to eBay before the high price appeared.

However, a few important points are made here – well, one – and that is that the Ebay Banana would have cost me in listing fees, especially should it have gone through at £30,100. I’m not sure how much I would have owed Ebay had that have happened, but even so it is a good point they have there.

Still, I got my fifteen minutes of fame out of it.

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