I'm getting an increasing amount of car related spam from sites hosted on fasthosts. I'm sure i've spamcopped the same sites before but they are still being hosted by fasthosts.

This seems to indicate that fasthosts are now friendly to spammers which is sad for such a big host.

So first TF2 and now the UT3 Demo is out. Nothing good for ages and now too many to play at once. And I never did find time for ETQW even though I liked it a lot.

First impressions of Netbeans 6 are good, to be honest I haven't tried it with Java code but I like the Ruby support enough to make it worth using for that alone. There is a relatively small 19MB download if you only want ruby support.

download here

I used to take pictures all the time (sometimes to the annoyance of people around me!) but it dropped off over the years.

We had a nice picnic by the beach today and some kite flying and it was also a good opportunity to use the new camera and I have to say I can easily imagine being bitten again by the bug now that I have a camera which is a much nicer to use.

So, as if they read my blog and thought they would oblige, on the same day that I posted about Scottish Water and traffic cones I noticed they were coning the route that I currently take to work (the other route I can take already has roadworks!) .

For bonus annoyance points they coned off a lane on the other side of the traffic lights for no reason which caused delays coming in the other direction.

I was going to post the pic earlier but windows mobile 6 doesn't let you resize images apart from when sending MMS for some reason.

I saw this on Shereens blog and it made me LOL

I like ruby and don't have much need to actually code in it but enjoy when I do have an excuse.

I think its rise might be assisted by the news that you can now run Ruby on .NET

I just saw some foreboding news for my daily commute - Scottish water have just spent £20 million on traffic cones in preparation for upcoming work.

I suppose I can expect more major roads to be coned off without any work or workmen in evidence to slow me down.

It was a surprise to hear that Apple have released a beta version of their browser, Safari, for the Windows.

After thinking about it I'm not sure that they actually want to compete with the many other browsers on Windows at all. The other piece of the puzzle is that the soon to be released iPhone doesn't run third party applications and is instead restricted to running what can be displayed using safari - web apps and DHTML. Apple probably want the iPhone to be another iPod in that it is bought and used by people who don't necessarily have macs and some of those will be developers who might like to contribute a widget but can't test it - which is where the Windows version of safari comes in.

I still think the fact that you can't run any real apps on it is a bit of a gaping hole and means that they are lagging behind windows mobile.

Here's a great page showing a "Hello World!" program in a zillion different languages.

Hello World!