I was discussing with a friend the other day, the pros and cons of broad skills, as apposed to deep, but narrow skills.

Broad skills - pros - lots of knowledge of different areas, obvious ability and/or interest in many areas. Potentially more locations would be willing to hire, as you probably have some skills in something they need.

Broad skills - cons - hard to get a high paid ’specialized’ job in any one area.

Deep skills - pros - easy to get high paid specialized jobs.

Deep skills - cons - fewer potential places to find work, as only has skills in a very specific area.

Just something that I’m thinking about at the moment.

Also, is bordom at work inversely proportional to stress? 

After a good six months, the new version of Powerlite Lighting is live. Powerlite is a custom lighting solution company based in Leeds UK. They’re good people.

The site’s running out of the Joomla Content Management System, with a whole bunch of modules and components. Good luck Powerlite!

Here’s the standalone version of the Animated Australian Infrared Satellite Image

After much work, I’ve finally gotten the visible and infrared Australian Satellite Images Animated and on my netvibes page.

The Standalone versions are

Infrared

Visible

3. Netvibe’s Universal Widget API still needs alot of work, yikes. But it’s getting there. I hope it catches on

I’ve been using Netvibes for a few years now to keep all my rss feeds together. I always wanted to see the Aussie Satellite map in there, as well as the weather forecast. So now, I can see the Satellite Map, as well as some regional radar maps. I’m adding more as I go.

Thanks to BOM.gov.au for upping all the images in the first place. You can see the widget here Australian Satellite and Radar Images Widget

Ok, I tried installing Web Developer Express 2008. and Visual Studio 2008, and they kept on flunking out.
Web Dev couldn’t install the patch for KB … and Visual Studio couldn’t install Document Explorer 2008 cause it couldn’t find dexplore.exe

Nothing worked. So I downloaded the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility and went nuts on everything related to old Visual Studio files and .Net framework stuff.

And guess what? Visual Studio finally installed - yay!

Netscape 2.02, possibly the finest browser ever seen. It had everything, frames, marque text, blinky stuff. Almost perfect, IMHO all browsers since have been a poor imitation.

I wonder if there’s anyone else out there who thinks so? Anyone who may have also knocked up a wordpress theme, to look like the old Netscape, cause that would be cool.

When I see a screen pic of netscape, I still get goosebumps. All that possibility of the internet, and what it will hold.

Get your old versions here:

http://sillydog.org/narchive/full123.php

I bought the 4PSA Total Backup for Plesk some time ago for my Plesk server. Of course, 1 week before I was due to retire the server, it crashed. I had to reimage, and then came the nail biting task of restoring it.
But I had a few errors, I installed the correct version of Total Backup, but when I ran

/usr/local/tbackup/tbrestore

I got the error

Error! Cannot cd to directory

‘Crap!’ I thought to myself. Googling didn’t help, nor did the 4PSA forums. Turns out the fix was that I had to specify a local backup directory through the Plesk control panel, for tbrestore to work.

It’s running now, it’s a slow, nail biting experience …..

Ok, here’s the command I use to exclude .zip files from my zips

zip -r *.zip myzipfile directorytozip -x "*.zip"

Working on one’s own sites is much more fun that other peoples. The Internet is huge, and SEO is fascinating. I know where the rest of my life is going to be spent

PS Googling ‘fascinating‘ is fascinating.