Web resource links from VirtualHosting.com
Received an unsolicited email the other day from a US-based outfit called VirtualHosting.com, who seem to be a reseller or affiliate for a number of US hosting providers. I've no use for their services right now, as I'm reasonably satisfied with my own hosting provider, so ordinarily I'd just assign it to the spam bin without a second thought.
Except... they also provided a link to an item that they've posted on their site/blog, entitled 100 Essential Web Resources for Freelance Programmers and glancing down, it does seem to contain some useful-looking third party information. And they've followed that one up with a couple more since, including 50 Tools and Resources to Help You Start a Webcomic.
So, fair play to them (assuming they've done the work themselves and not just grokked it off some other, poor, unsuspecting blogger, says the terrible cynic in me...) and quite a bit more useful than your usual e-spam, it has to be said...
The ghosts of Xmas (toys) past…
Jon Drew, one of the guys from the T-Shirts and Suits seminar a couple of weeks ago sent round a link to his interactive picture quiz by way of season's greetings.
I managed 22/30 without having to think too hard, but I obviously didn't waste enough time on console games in my callow youth, so I only recognised a couple of the electronic gizmos on show there. And what the heck was the name of that viewer-thingy with the circular movie-still cards you slotted in the top..?
Anyhow, it certainly brought back a lot of happy memories. Ah, the hours I used to spend playing Subbuteo with my mates back in the '80s. Of course, it's all Pro-Evolution-this and Football Manager-that now, isn't it... I dunno, kids today... don't know they're born... not like when I was a lad...