13th
April
2010
I Wear Your Shirt is a two man American advertising company that uses the wearing of T-shirts to promote businesses and spread messages. Buy two T-shirts and get your company logo or birthday message etc printed onto them. Buy a day or more via the calendar on the company’s website and then send one t-shirt to the company’s founder, Jason Sadler, who lives in Florida, and the other to Evan White who lives in Los Angeles. Sadler and White then wear your shirt on the day or days you’ve bought.
They advertise by making videos and taking pictures wearing the t-shirts and upload the results to Ustream and YouTube. They also have a blog, Flickr, Twitter and Facebook accounts that they use to promote the companies and people who paid them to wear the shirts.
Days in 2010 started at $2 on January 1 and then increase $2 everyday, until December 31 when the price is $730. It is widely reported that after factoring in the money gained from the sale of monthly $1,500 sponsorships, plus contests and other enterprises, Sadler’s total income in 2009 was $83,000 and the prices have doubled for this year.
Perhaps I could do something similar in the U.K. with socks – and advertise a different company on each foot 
15th
March
2010
PlusNet’s cgi server that hosts this blog, suffered from a ByLenis hacking attack on Friday. PlusNet took the server offline as soon as they discovered it was being targetted to limit the damage.
Over the weekend PlusNet restored customer’s websites with backups from before the hacking took place, and upgraded the PHP and Apache software versions. This afternoon the server was put back on-line.
Initially, there were a few issues getting my blog working on the new platform, but after some timely help via the community forums and some changes to a couple of files, I’m pleased to announce everything here is now up and running again.
11th
March
2010
Google Street View used to only have coverage of a few select cities and other areas, but today Google unveilled the results of a huge survey of UK streets with full 360 degree photo coverage of practically every major street in the UK.
For the past eighteen months Google has been surveying the country and collating the massive amounts of data required to build and offer the full UK Street View map. Google blurs the faces of individuals and the number plates of vehicles on the images captured by the Street View cameras due to privacy concerns.
Go to http://maps.google.co.uk and do a search for your street, then drag and drop the little yellow man symbol onto the map.
30th
November
2008
The FOUND Magazine website from America, describes itself thus:
“We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids’ homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles – anything that gives a glimpse into someone else’s life. Anything goes…”
I find some of the finds in this collection of ephemeral items are quite funny, and some, thought provoking. What do you think?…
11th
November
2008
I asked Tomeo to load up jtonline.info on his Apple iPhone at lunch time today, and I was pleased to see that this blog seems to work as intended on the Safari browser (thanks Tom).
It wasn’t a very extensive testing session, but confirmed to me that XHTML compliant code and the recent change from a Flash based photo slideshow to the current thumbnail layout, has been worth the time it’s taken to do.
So, I’ve viewed the blog successfully in IE7, Firefox and iPhone Safari. Hmm.. I haven’t tried IE6 yet…
Tagged with apple,
iphone
9th
May
2008
Leafing through the pages of the May edition of PC Plus magazine, I came across a little article about WAMPs.
WAMPs are independently-created programs that can be installed on Microsoft Windows based computers. The acronym is formed from the initials of Windows and the package’s principal components, namely: Apache, MySQL and PHP.
By installing a WAMP on my computer, I would have all the necessary components to enable me to run WordPress locally. I thought, this would be ideal for developing WordPress themes without the need to constantly upload changes to the Web for testing on a published site.
I therefore downloaded WampServer 2, an open source WAMP, free to use under the terms of a GPL licence. I was impressed with the ease of installation (I’m sure it would be much more of a hassle to download and install the components individually) and once installed, it was also easy to get WordPress running locally on my laptop.
From now on it should be much easier to work with WordPress files and themes. I’ll only have to upload the files to the web once after they’ve been fully tested on one of my new development servers!
19th
March
2008
This evening I set about updating my Laptop with Windows Vista Service Pack 1 via the automatic update facility. It’s just over an hour after pressing ‘Download’ now and all the necessary bits and bobs have been downloaded and installed.
Microsoft claims on their website:
“SP1 doesn’t add features or require you to learn anything new, it simply makes your PC more reliable, run more smoothly, and even more enjoyable to use, all at no charge”.
More enjoyable eh? Just gonna do a reboot then; I can hardly contain my excitement….
18th
October
2006
I’ve just read an article in the Living section of the Sky.com website that says the financial services firm Mint, conducted a survey which concluded that, following a big increase in cyber dating, couples are now more likely to meet over the internet than face-to-face. Apparently, single people stand more chance of being introduced to a potential partner on the web than at a party or on holiday.
Perhaps there’s hope for me yet then.
30th
October
2005
I’ve completed work on the photo slideshow and guestbook sections of the website and so all sections of the site are now fully operational.
9th
October
2005
After much head scratching, all sections of the new Flash based jtonline.info website are almost complete.
A couple of sections are going to be powered by php scripts and will therefore have to run on a different server from the main Flash pages.
