However, this caused a lot of problems as many of my domains (before I got into the hosting business) were bought from UK-PLC, and all of my domains used nameservers at StuzzIT.com. This meant a lot of downtime.

Of course, anyone hosted on StuzzIT.com has received a free month of hosting as my way of saying sorry for the downtime, as well as just a general thanks for staying with us.

Welcome back to The Random One.

That is my formspring URL. Feel free to ask me anything, as long as it’s reasonable and won’t result in my death.

Yes, I am The Random One.

Let’s make things happen.

www.JoelsBox.uk.to

Of course, this raises the question, does this affect the sleep cycle? It’s important to note that there are several different sleep stages, and it’s an interesting question as to whether or not these would all occur during these naps, and if not, are they necessary?

Jay claims that, while naps would reduce sleep inertia, he has reason to believe that there is evidence that memory could be affected by this.

Maybe if I get a lot of free time at some point I can test this out.

I definitely enjoyed the time at which we were making videos, but it’s just not possible anymore. The equipment got pretty much destroyed over the course of it all, and we made an extremely big loss, and hardly any gain whatsoever (yeah, the sponsors never paid up).

Simply put, I was destroyed emotionally and financially, yet at the same time, had we had more money, it wouldn’t have failed, but by more money, I mean a minimum of 65,000 pounds, 500,000 if possible.

PleaseRobMe is essentially a Twitter based search engine that finds tweets posted with location information and possible information about when somebody might be out of the house. It then instructs the world to rob them.

The developers claim that it was created solely to make people aware of the issues of sharing this kind of information online, and I have to agree that it can be quite risky. At the same time however, I do like the fact that tweets are public, since it means I don’t have to approve anyone to see my updates (and of course, there is the option to make tweets private).

‘Don’t get us wrong, we love the whole location-aware thing. The information is very interesting and can be used to create some pretty awesome applications. However, the way in which people are stimulated to participate in sharing this information is less awesome.’

One hopes that no actual robberies will actually take place as a result of this website, however it is very interesting to see how they’re able to obtain this information, using such a simple method. I’m sure it took no genuis to create this website, just the ambition to prove that it can be done.

Please note that I do not endorse anyone using the service mentioned to actually rob someone. Instead, I hope that this can be used to make people more aware of precautions that should be taken when posting information online.

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Video blogging – is it effective?

I suppose it all depends on how you look at it. Text blogs are easier to create by far for many people, and even when you do have a webcam, editing the blog entries together in a professional manner can definitely be time consuming. You also have to remember that people may be reading your blog from a place of work, for example, where it would not be feasible for them to watch a video, due to say, a lack of headphones.

It is also important to remember that most video sharing websites do require plug-ins such as Adobe Flash to function, which can limit accessibility, since not all people are able to use these. Of course, this is easily defeated by the fact that it’s estimated at least 90% of computer users have Adobe Flash Player installed, but devices such as the iPhone do not have any form of Flash support. The best option in this situation, of course, would be to link to an MP4 version of the file, for example.

However, text still ranks higher in my honest opinion, simply because one can easily scan through text, without having to watch an entire video to see what they want to see.

In some cases however, video does seem to be more effective in that it can be more engaging for an audience, and it can generally be perceived as less boring to view. Also, things that cannot easily be delivered through text could be through the use of audio and video.

My general feeling is that whether you want to use audio or video generally depends on what your purpose for your content is, but my advice to anyone reading is – Try both, see what you prefer doing.

Let’s see what happens, maybe I’ll try video blogging on here for a while.

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This begs the question, what websites do we actually need, and what should we do with the ones we don’t need? I suppose you could argue, the ones we don’t need aren’t really an issue, but you have to remember that they’re using up domain names that could be useful for other people who may actually need them. At the same time however, one of the great things about the internet is that anyone can contribute.

I suppose the best solution to this is to make more TLDs available. How about .blog or something similar for bloggers? I’m aware that more are going to be setup, but to be honest I think it would have been better if this had been the case from the start. I also would like to point out that creating more TLDs would still leave all of the .com, .net and .org sites on these old TLDs, and would also increase our dependency on search engines?

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