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When things are the same but different

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I like messing around with stuff.

I have always been like that.  Give me something new and I will immediately take it apart to see how it works.  Sometimes I put those parts together again and I end up with something completely different which can be nice or nasty depending on what I have come up with.  Of course the last thing I ever did [or still do] is Read The Fucking Manual.  RTFM spoils the whole fun of tinkering.

Sadly, this tinkering bug is something I apply to the Interwebs, and I have been at it again.  Though for once, I left this site alone and hacked another to pieces and reassembled it.

I had this site which was bland and ugly, but it didn’t bother me too much as no one ever visits it.  Well, actually it might get one or two visitors a month who arrived there by mistake.  What I decided to do was to give it a revamp, to use exactly the same theme as this site but to make it as different as possible.

For those who don’t know, the theme is like your home’s decoration – the wallpaper, the paint, the carpet and all the furnishings – and in theory if you move all that into an identically shaped new house you won’t be able to see any difference.  So I took my theme from this site [Weaver Xtreme, if you must know] and applied it to the other site, but made one or two small changes on the way.

I’m quite happy with it.  That is to say I’m happy with the fact it looks different even if the content is a bit naff.  I’m not much good at writing stuff.

See if you can spot the differences?

 

 

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When things are the same but different — 9 Comments

  1. While most hosting companies offer “unlimited disk space, which is a nonsense term (try upoading a few Terabytes of files and see how quickly they complain

    Ain’t THAT the Truth!!  And not just when you start on a few Terry-bites. Once upon a time , not so long ago, I had the bright idea of hosting a few 500mb-700mb files on one of my domains (I lose count) for others to download at their leasure instead of them having to pay premium prices to use Upwoadeddotnetto. A good idea I thought …until I read the ‘500mb’ upload limit’ on my hosting control panel.

    I must get around to finding cheaper hosting- I have a ‘baby’ US$15 monthly package from Hostgatoraid. I only ever use it for storing the odd thing or so for others  to access like a literal translation of the bible in German or some rude Norfolk songs. Every month I get pissed off by the threatening ‘pay or else’ email from Heistgaydor which I have to pay as a I have a couple of redirects for others set up (Smoking hot’s site runs via  such a redirect).

    I did once set up a VNP/SSL Tunnel type thingy which was extremely useful and saved faffing about with Proxies  but can’t for the life of me recall how or where I read The Idiots Guide on it.

     

     

    • Did a check yesterday on my traffic through my Interweb connection – rapidly approaching the Terror-byte level.  Amazing how big those films soundfiles web files are these days?

  2. Blimey GD, all those servers in the basement, a global Matrix control centre AND palm trees and a sunkissed beach in the back garden! No wonder you call it ‘The Manor’! Who’d a thunk!

    • …says he from some tropical asian Shangri-La where nubile willing very young women, good beer and cheap smokes flow as unto the Milk & Honey didth out of Jordan?
      Mr Kettle, While you were out a Mr.Pott phoned.

    • Those servers actually are quite good for keeping the Manor above freezing point during our summer.  I’m just hoping the planning people don’t get to hear about ’em.

  3. O/T

    I note some insignificant in your country is suggesting an Irexit (it does have a certain ring to it).

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/783657/ireland-eu-exit-irexit-eirexit-banking-crisis-hibernia-forum-keith-redmond

    And that video about UK’s exit bill. I’ve always wondered what became of the £7 billion we lent you back in 2010. Any idea if they repaid us?

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/nov/22/ireland-bailout-uk-lends-seven-billion

    • Meh!  Wishful thinking.  Never heard of him, though I wish he were right.

      “Any idea if they repaid us?”  D’you mean you want it back?

  4. Well I visit regularly. Meant to ask: is that old feller your own painting? Like.

    • No it’s not.  It’s actually a character in a larger painting that Herself bought for me some years ago.  The reason she bought it was that “the little character on the left is a bit Grandadish”!  I did modify it very slightly as the beard wasn’t long enough.  The nose is a bit big too!  The facial expression is bang on.

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