Microsoft’s Automatic Update feature has always been annoying. I don’t care who you are, none of you can possibly say that it’s not annoying I thought that it wasn’t possible for it to become any more annoying than it already is, but today I was proved wrong.
My main gripe was that almost regardless of [...]
I now have an answer to the question that I implied in my previous post (ie. is the search over?)! The answer is: Yes! The search is over!
I’m not going to go into all the gory and graphic details (this is, after all, a publicly viewable blog), but I can say that after a single [...]
Today we may well have come to the end of our search. Tomorrow morning, at 8am, we meet the Real Estate agent and if things go to plan, we may well be making an offer on a block of land! How exciting. Check out the pic to see what we’re contemplating It’s just over [...]
My eternal quest for maximising productivity has recently lead me in the direction of an interesting new application called DarkRoom. Some of you may have heard of this before, and will consider it ‘old news’, but I’m sure there are some readers out there who wouldn’t have heard of it and I feel it’s worth [...]
A good friend of mine by the name of passed on this little nugget of information through his Facebook profile. It reads:
Apparently Facebook has started letting other websites access user information (surprise, surprise!) to third parties. They call it the “Facebook Development Platform.”
To restrict use of your information, do the following:
Click “Privacy” on top [...]
Yup, it’s absolutely, positively disgusting And yes, it highlights my artistic abilities. Well, actually, it highlights my lack of motivation to actually come up with something coo so I instead hacked out the existing text and threw in something else. I know it’s horrid I’m waiting patiently for me main man Dan to [...]
Since we’ve been home from the U.K., Amy and I have been keeping tabs on the property market in the hope of finding a place that we’d be keen to buy. We’ve been renting ever since we’ve known each other, and I started renting over 10 years ago. This probably won’t come as a surprise, [...]
One of the most common questions asked by would-be coders is “which language should I learn first?“. The answer isn’t really straight forward. I think it varies depending on age, aptitude, how well you know computers, your passion and what you want to do with what you learn.
On hearing this question recently, I decided to [...]
As you all know, I recently moved the Blackapache site to a new server. We had some teething issues, as ya do when making the move, but all is now well. One of the things that I hadn’t got round to fixing was my SpamAssassin installation.
I’d already gone through the fun times of setting up [...]
I was getting bored with the existing theme, so I decided to have a look at some others. I actually don’t mind this one, but the missus thinks it’s terrible
In case you didn’t notice, it’s called “Rockin’ Suckerfish”. I’ll be changing the picture at the top when I can be arsed [...]
