www.paulnixon.org

PS The site should work perfectly in firefox, and is pretty good in IE7. I'm not evening going to look in ie6!

Interestingly I've just searched for the last time I redesigned the site - October 29th. Almost 2 years to the day.

This was not planned - must be something to do with the shortening days!

Looking nice, I especially like the blue and green headers

Errr.. ignore that. It's a dreadful bit of software that didn't work!

been a while since i delved, but iirc DVD Decrypter does a decent job, which I think has been replaced by ImgBurn which is also freeware. I haven't checked though, so may be wrong.

I've used imgBurn - it is indeed good

Maybe I'm being a shithead - but can I rip a DVD to avi format using imagebum?

i've just had a quick look at imgburn and i can't see a way. i'm fairly certain that dvd decrypter used to let you do it - you can get it here: http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/

sorry to muck you about - don't think i've been much help here, but there's a guide at the following address detailing how to use dvd decrypter and another bit of software to do it - http://forum.videohelp.com/topic301015.html

Steve

Ha, no worries. I'm sure the heart was in the right place. I think I've found a bit of software called DVDRipper or something equally appropriate.

I've got a cracked copy. If it's any good I'll buy.

Cheers and thanks

P

classic

Melanie Phillips has raised my ire before. She's a dog without lipstick. She's like Richard Littlejohn's sister - same unpleasant views although with none of the charm, humour or good looks.

Alas regular christian right fare - hatred and fear repackaged as, well, actually it's just hatred and fear.

"Those of us who have looked on appalled during this most frightening of presidential elections..."

Surely not as frightening as the last two when somehow George Bush got elected? I like most right-thinking people believe George to be a comic genius, but obviously he should not have been in charge of the most powerful nation in the world.

"America’s belief in itself as defending individual liberty, truth and justice on behalf of the free world will now be expiated instead as its original sin."

Errr.. probably not. I'd like to see some quotes from Obama backing up this little bit of nonsense.

"Millions of Americans remain lion-hearted, decent, rational and sturdy. They find themselves today abandoned, horrified, deeply apprehensive for the future of their country and the free world. No longer the land of the free and the home of the brave; they must now look elsewhere."

If this wasn't so tragic it would be amusing. Actually, it's still amusing.

lol

err... formatting disaster!

Formatting partially sorted. Looks better in ie than firefox now :-)

wow. that's awsome

You're right. b3ta is very good, just not very.. errr.. navigable somehow.

grrrrr, looks like you can't link the images

Indeed, very impressive. I want to have a go now...

I don't have a fancy DSLR, but I'm a dab hand with Photoshop (and I'm learning GIMP) so I might give it a go with my wife's point-and-click.

Linking to remote images is a bit cheeky, because it steals bandwidth. Better to do it only if express permission is given.

Simon, agreed about the 'hotlinking' of images. However, I reconcile myself with the fact that the image is typically alongside an entry that is promoting the site in question.

Applying for permission would be a bit tedious. Theoretically downloading and hosting the image myself is just as bad.

Further, we should be careful not to overestimate my readership ;-)

Is it like minature things

That's very impressive, although it looks like it could benefit from some lightening up.

Hmm, maybe you're right. I actually love the light in the original photo - maybe the photoshop jiggery has darkened it a little.

I would like to no if the lday singel or not

for general browsing i'm only using Chrome these days.

Interesting. I found it didn't do bookmarks proper :-)

I'm kinda stuck with firefox for day-to-day stuff, I'm too reliant on extensions.

i like chrome too - very fast for ajax apps, but i too am stuck with firefox - i wouldn't get very far without my firebug extension these days.

can't seem to use chrome for ebay and banking sites currently but for fast general browsing it is class. IE8 is a c*nt.

Happy as I am with the rise of the c-word in general usage, it's a careless frittering of it's power to describe a quite bad browser in my view.

Olden but golden,

Nothing will ever beat this though :-)

I did actually do a search for it to see if it was a re-post, I must be going mad!

The Daily Mail has got quite a few comments over the years. I only show the 20 most recent hits when you do a search.

Therefore, you are excused ;-)

rain on your wedding day?

Free advice when you've already paid

(this one makes me shiver with disgust for some reason - such a bad bad lyric)

Alanis Morissette. Idiot more like.

It's probably been said a million times before, but couldn't the irony of that song be said to be that it isn't ironic in the slightest and that was her intention?

That aside, great pic. Much lolz.

Steve, I think you give her too much credit.

In fairness, it was a free ride when you've already paid but in any case, such a circumstance is unforeseeable.

Give the woman a break though, most of her examples of irony are objectively consistent with the dictionary definition of the word.

Subjectively, you may choose to hate it, and her, for various reasons. For instance venting at least 20 years worth of suppressed anger, via the medium of music, upon millions of people who really didn't ask for or deserve it.

Also, she reportedly has monstrous pubic hair. Presumably she has been serially mistreated by men over the years. Maybe they all felt they had to conjure spurious reasons for their infidelity when someone should really have been brave enough to front her and negotiate at least a general tidy up.

Hence her confused, and angry, state.

Much as I don't like celebrity tittle-tattle I do like the occasional, probably untrue, unjust and insulting variety of rumour.

My favourite in this genre is the rumour/lie tha Courtney Cox had her anus bleached.

2nd from bottom - I swear it's Steven Colbert!

Ha, actually it's not all bad. Just spotted bicycles produced :-)

That Bestsellers section is class. I noticed Amazon is very popular. You should sort out some sort of affiliate deal...

Andy... shhh

I've been putting my own affiliate codes into things I link to since I started using this site.

The big problem with "bestsellers" is that it is UK-centric, which makes it all but useless for me.

Simon, you're a cheeky monkey popping your own affiliate codes on ;-).

Agreed the bestsellers are UK specific. Alas there only so many hours in a weekend...

You can use the bestsellers for ideas for your UK-based family :-).