So my credit card company charged me for two transactions I do not recognise (to skype.com) and I challenged it. They posted me forms to fill in, which I duly did and, being a planet-saving-kinda-guy I re-used their envelope to…
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Wedding Update…..
It’s been a while so it must be time for an update…. We’ve been cake tasting at Cakes By Carol and have ordered the cake. We’ve got the honeymoon booked – two weeks in the Lakes (a week each at…
Testing ScribeFire
OK, now trying ScribeFire to see if I get on with that any better!
Testing BloGTK
It would be a lot easier to keep my blog up to date if I didn’t need to keep logging into the website to do it. So I’m trying out BloGTK to see if that’s an easier way to do…
My pooter got swine flu
Or more precisely, it got hit by a virus, which was sufficiently virulent that it scanned the PC inserting its code into every executable file on the system, and spread onto attached USB thunb drives as well. AVG didn’t spot…
Toast on the moon
The Americans are planning to go back to the moon. Actually I think this is a good idea; technology often needs big challenges to drive it forward and the resulting developments often advantage the rest of us mere mortals. Technology…
The crazy world of domain registrations
The domain market goes crazy for Michael Jackson | Inside 123-reg. Apparently the new cool thing to do is register domains like jackoisdead.co.uk within hours of his death, many of which appear for sale on eBay shortly afterwards. The Internet…
IT Education
We have a work experience lad working with us at the moment. Nothing unusual about that, we have several through the year. And nothing unusual about the fact that he’s studying ICT, nor the fact that his understanding of “computing”…
Blog spam
I guess my blog has been noticed by Google or something. 8 new comments, which turned out to be 8 new spam. Anyone for Viagra?
Liking Chrome….
I decided, against all the worthy advice on Google’s website, to install the early Chrome web browser release for Linux. So far I have to say I am liking it (and writing this with it). Not bad for pre-beta software!