This Saturday in my City Centre (Bradford)

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A racist group of people are protesting or doing something, police are guarding them.

The general word on the street is most normal people will be avoiding the city.

What happens when people avoid the city?  Retail sales go down.

Who owns the retail outlets in Bradford?  White people.

Perfect circle of fail 🙂 GG EDL.

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LCD / Monitor / Screen Cleaning website

Ever come to clean your monitor but it’s been turned off so you can’t see the grime?

Problem solved, visit the Screen Cleaning website and press F11!

Etherpad – cp: missing destination file operand after `lib/’

This error is caused by the MYSQL_CONNECTOR_JAR environment variable/export not being set.

Set it by typing..

export MYSQL_CONNECTOR_JAR="path to your mysql connector.jar"

Making Etherpad content indexable by Search Engines

Engineering drawing of a binocular spy-glass

Etherpad contents very rarely shows up on Search results.  But with forums and wikis moving over to it I wanted to find a way to give etherpad a bit of an SEO edge..

Firstly I looked at the twitterstyletags plugin which creates an rss feed or all pads..  This is a perfect solution for a sitemap so that’s that box ticked 🙂

Next I knew that Etherpad served pad contents in an iframe so I looked at better ways to get content for search engines to index.  Etherpad includes Read only versions of each pad, these read only versions push the content to the user without displaying it in an iframe so it is a perfect fix for the problem.

My final step will be to find someone to modify the twitterstyletags plugin RSS feed to create a sitemap.xml and to create a plugin that allows users to easily link back from read only versions to currently active pads.

Remember that thing Microsoft demo’d at E3 where you talked to a character on the screen?

Originally Project Natal, now Kinect, part of this new Microsoft tech is certainly opening a new can of worms where managing relationships is the core control of a game.