Another site to lose yourself on...

Hey all, I discovered www.freesound.org today, it's a collection of sounds (as you might have thought) that people upload onto the site, and (I think) they're all free for users! Today I was listening to the bells of Santa Croce in Florence.

You might lose yourself there. You might not. Particularly if you don't look at it. But sure it might be of some use to you!

Handy web related hint!

Anyone who's using Twitter will realise that it shortens big URLs (web addresses) to bit.ly/somecode addresses (cos it's only giving you 140 characters to spill your life story). Or, you might have seen tinyurl.com addresses around too, which do the same thing. Save you typing www.thisisareallylongdomainname.com/thisisthebitaftertheslash/gibberish.com and allows you to type tinyurl.com/sdfoll or something.

Anyhoo, these can be bad for you, in that you don't know where you're being sent on the interweb - you don't know what type of site you'll end up on. Internet Explorer users scroll to the bottom of the post....

So somebody clever has developed a Firefox extension at http://tinyurl.com/9hnqrz (same destination, just used as an example!) which allows you to hover over these shortened addresses before you click on them and find out where they're going to lead you. I've not been using it for long, but it seems helpful. Firefox users, scroll to the bottom of the post and nod sagely....


Internet Explorer users - Firefox is more customisable and nicerer. Switch soon. Then read the paragraph above this one.

Oil help you out....

Helpful website directions to help you save money.

I came across this website today, at cheapestoil.ie. It might be helpful for any of you looking to price kerosene, comparing as it does the online prices of suppliers in your area.

ps - did anyone else notice how when I stopped blogging, it all went horribly wrong?