Well after monkeying about with a busted 11.10 installation (call it a learning curve with Linux); I decided to reinstall the OS from fresh. I have 4x2TB drives utilising Ubuntu’s FakeRAID (software RAID), along with a 500Gb OS drive (the target for my refresh).

TL;DR – solution to this problem is at bottom of this post;

Here’s the teaser trailer for the new Transformers movie : Dark of the Moon

Now i’m going to go out on a limb here; but I think that Transformer on the ship is Alpha Trion…?

My girlfriend will be testament to this; i’m a sissy… I’ve been mustering up the courage to complete Dead Space on the PS3 for a while, but i can only play it in sporadic bursts (a. because i’m traumatised far too easily and b). 5.1 and Dead Space easily scares the crap outta me!). As i’m nearing the end of my psychosis from this game, joy-of-joys – there’s Dead Space 2!

Came across TinEye; a ‘reverse image search engine’ today. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.

TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. It is free to use for non-commercial searching.

TinEye regularly crawls the web for new images, and they also accept contributions of complete online image collections. At the time of writing this, TinEye has indexed 1,572,822,693 images from the web to help you find what you’re looking for.

There are also a number of extensions available for the main web browsers, as well as a mature, paid-for API (designed for commercial searches etc). It is definately one to watch!

One of the most popular websites in the world; BBC News; is set for a refresh in the next week or so. BBC editor Steve Hermann gives the skinny on what we can expect:

What’s new:

• a fresh, updated design, with more space for the main stories of the day
• better use of video and images
• clearer and more prominent labelling and signposting of key stories, whether you are on the front page or a story page
• a better indication of which are the most recent headlines
• easier ways to share stories with others, for those who wish to

Some things are staying the way they are:

• all the same content is still there: the best of the BBC’s journalism in text, audio and video
• the latest news headlines will be as quick and comprehensive as ever
• accuracy remains at the core of our editorial values
• we’ve been careful to keep things simple and easy to use; you have told us how important this is

Watched a webinar today from Communicator Corp, introducing their new A/B testing of emails. Very slick… Premise is essentially the same as multivariate testing of websites (a-la Google’s Website Optimiser) – you create two emails, load them into the system, it then sends to a percentage of your total subscription list, shows you which one is better received… then you can send the best performing email to the rest of your recipients.

This may seem very contrite, but the ability to test your emails on-the-fly almost guarantees an uplift in your readership!

Thanks to Rebeca at Communicator Corp; Glad to see that they are pushing this platform forward!