I’m now very close to the end of Pimsleur’s German III. I’m up to lesson 20 which overall is lesson 80 out of 90.
I have just realised however that there is a 10 lesson set called German Plus designed to go after German III but my library doesn’t have it. I still recommend it to anyone wishing to learn a language, at least if you can get access to it for free.
Well it seems Google just updated it’s pagerank database. And to my eternal joy I’ve gained across the board. Every site/page is either higher than before or at least the same (in fact it’s only the few PR5 pages I have that haven’t gone up).
The most notable is Luliriisi’s (Julia’s site) increase from no PR to PR4. :)
Whether I’ll notice an increase in traffic is yet to be seen however. We can but hope :)
http://cgi.ebay.com/New-60-inch-Sony-Plasma-Tv-gmail-com-L-K-NR_W0QQitemZ5815875671QQcategoryZ116205QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Anyone who bids that much on something without reading deserves everything they get…
Unfortunately I doubt eBay will force payment.
Has anyone else tried to use phpOpenTracker with Wordpress? Whenever I do I get strange DB error messages. If you have used the two together, either unsuccessfully or not, please let me know.
I guess every blog owner posts an entry like this sooner or later. I just had my first serious bout of comment spam. About 50 or so pointless messages about mortgages and refinancing. But since the spammer used the same IP it was really easy to delete them all using Wordpress. Of course other blog software probably has the same features…
I picked up the “World Citizen” edition of Pimsleur’s Dutch. Two lessons in and I sound like I’m from bloody Liverpool. Quite how that happened I don’t know…
Twice in a row I’ve posted a link to another blog… I doubt this is a trend.
Apparently there are no viruses for Macs. Disagree? Then get some money…
http://www.macobsession.com/2005/09/27/make-500-by-proving-your-mac-was-hit-by-a-virus/
I rarely mention other blog posts, but this one caught my attention:
The quote that I specifically liked was: “A kid that dies from a bad case of diarrhea in the third world would pleasure 60 year-olds with heart disease for the chance to become a 60 year-old with heart disease getting pleasured by a young boy.”
Sometimes Linux is downright counter-intuitive. I have SSH command line access to my server and I wanted to rename a directory. Now I know that cp is used to copy files so I try rn. No luck. So I think perhaps they are being nice so I try rename. This seems to work. But the file is not actually renamed. When I type the command on its on it says call: rename from to files. Nice but not useful. After a quick search I find out how to do it: you need the move command. Well to be precise the mv command. After a moment’s thought it does make sense but it is not intuitive…
I went with Julia to Aberystwyth to university on Saturday. Six hour train journey. Aberystwyth is nice except for the one hill the university sits on top of.