I don’t know about you but I really cannot stand Microsoft Windows Media Player. It’s soo slow and memory hungry, it can’t burn properly and it’s so hungry to rip music it will usually start ripping it all incorrectly before I can check whats happening. It also has a bizarre stutter at the start of tracks sometimes caused by a memory bottleneck, which just should not happen on a high performance system like mine.
Anyway today I decided to throw in the towel and get a proper music player, I did a bit of Googling and everyone is talking about XMPlay, a free, light weight music player for Windows.
I download XMPlay, it’s absolutely tiny (300kb), it just works straight out of the box, is very configurable but simple also. It understands all the formats you’d expect and more and you can make it look different by downloading different skins.
So, XMPlay is my new favourite thing, get XMPlay Music Player for Windows, it’s such a simple alternative to Media Player that’s far far better.
It’s my Birthday today, it was pretty good! Mum and Dad got me a Chocolate Dalek Birthday Cake from Tesco!
I got on the bus into town early to buy doughnuts and cookies for the office and they’d changed the route so I ended up in Ifield and ended up ringing a taxi. But I got it all and got to work on time.
I worked on the new City Link website again today, it’s coming along nicely. More on that when it goes live.
Myself, DJ and Scott went to see Terminator: Salvation, I’ve been waiting to see the human Resistance battle Skynet in the future for about… 18 years.
I thought the new Terminators such as the Mototerminators, Harvesters and the T600, were in-keeping with the classic Terminator design and the Hunter Killer.
It was also really great to see the Terminator Hover Scout, which is a concept from the T2 3-D: Battle Across Time at Universal Studios.
Yeah, I’m going to bed. Nite.
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If a link to your website is bounced around twitter enough times by enough people, the increased visitor traffic can crash your server! This is known as The Twitter-Effect, but it was known as the slash-dot-Effect and the Digg-Effect long before now.
Depending on how many followers you have and how many followers your followers and so on; the effect can be quite devastating. Not all webservers are equip to deal with the number of web pages that are suddenly being requested and will either crash of leave excess requests unanswered.
It seems the problems of sudden increases in traffic from social networking will always be known as the [whatever-the-buzz-at-the-moment-is]-Effect.
But apparently the Twitter-Effect is actually becoming a problem for some smaller websites and has allegedly been the cause of recent crashes of BIG servers. Moments ago a Yahoo blog about them joining twitter went down because of the Twitter-Effect. Ironic.
Read more at The Royal Pingdom ยป Dawn of the Twitter Effect.
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