Hmm.  I’ve decided that P2P net­works can be a most use­ful device indeed.  Despite their poten­tial for abuse.

I lost the Gate­way Win­dows Me CD (I have absolutely NO idea how that was man­aged, see­ing that EVERY OTHER sys­tem disc is still in my folder for such things, but hey!) for the Cel­ery lap­top, and have just fin­ished down­load­ing a nice new full ISO of Win­dows Me (heh, I laughed when the ISO pre­parer was marked as Microsoft them­selves… yay for direct rip­ping!).  I was half expect­ing it not to work or some­thing, but hey, it does.  Very cool.

Yes, this evi­dently makes me an evil pirate, and the peer to peer net­works should be shut down, and users should never lose discs.  Well, that would be okay, if copy­right law in this esteemed coun­try made pro­vi­sion for “Fair Use”.  No mat­ter what I do, I’d be break­ing the law.  I can’t keep a copy locally, and I can’t down­load a copy remotely… what’s a geek to do?  Heh, hardly a geek, even — this thing is run­ning Mil­le­nium.  Ah well.  It works okay, despite all the bad press.  It was built by an OEM, and came with an OEM dist. of Mil­le­nium (which, of course, I have now lost and replaced with a stock image of, but hey), so it has to run acceptably.

Hmmmm.  Yes.  Now I can finally dub (well, not strictly dub, but meh:P) some of the accu­mu­lat­ing Plat­form 7 record­ings (on tape) to file… well, I could before, if I could be both­ered to move my desk­top into the lounge room.  But that’s just too far away, and would mean too much time spent away from email ;)

“Copy­ing files needed for Win­dows Setup…”  Hurry up and copy already!!!  Sigh.

In other inter­est­ing news, I’ve dis­cov­ered why Google isn’t index­ing this web­site prop­erly.  Appar­ently my URL’s are too com­plex… SE’s can deal with query strings to an extent, but appar­ently any more than two and a bit and they start to struggle/or at least ignore bits.

The solu­tion would basi­cally mean either using URI’s of the form http://baseaddress/?$style.$page.$extravariable1.$extravariable2 etc., or using mod_rewrite to make even more friendly URL’s.

I’m not sure exactly what would be the most scal­able way to do this, and haven’t got time imme­di­ately avail­able to deter­mine this… I may look at it next week­end, or later next week depend­ing on other work­load and the progress of exist­ing web projects.

And that con­cludes my pro­cras­ti­na­tion for this half hour…  back to the Exten­sion sem­i­nar prepa­ra­tion and things like that!