Talk about a leave of absence! Have not been near this site since early February bar the occasional upgrade to WordPress itself.
So its re-cap time, Apologies to anyone who landed on the site when they googled the 554 error. I encountered it during December a few days before I created the rant [...]
Two months without updates? thats about the norm now
So, Christmas 2007 is over (and I still have not gotten round to buying my new walking boots from the xmas money) and its now ’08.
And for the 3rd year in a trot, my NYE has been cut short because I fell ill with something. [...]
How stupid can some people be?
Particularly when it comes to work email accounts?
Here at work, we utilise Surfcontrol for filtering web and email for certain items. Its biggest benefit is that it blocks loads of spam, as well as the occasional false-positive (because of certain keywords being caught) as well as Adult [...]
Another painless upgrade to WordPress, and a new theme to give a bit more “space” to the page.
There seems to be a growing style of “squashed” themes where its all clumped down the middle of the page with huge white bars either side of it, so I went for one which fills most of the [...]
Ever had one of those days where everything seems to be off by 1
Everything seems to be out of whack? your typing a key off so what comes out as ejsy instead, and anything you do seems to not work out right?
I hate days like that Its not worth the effort doing [...]
Well, awkward situations seems to be the norm these days so far in life.
Around 2 months ago I discovered that my left shoulder was numb to touch, similar to the feeling you get after going to the dentists.. that one where you can chew your cheek for 5 minutes and not feel anything except blood [...]
At the bottom of my last post in August I mentioned about upgrading my phone to Windows Mobile 6.. Yes I do happen to run around with one of those annoying PDA Phones and decided since I do work in IT, to have a fiddle with it and see what I can break
HTC [...]
So, almost 2 years ago (circa November ’05) I went and exchanged my old Peugeot Partner, for a new Ford Fiesta 1.25 Style.
This was because the Partners fuel economy was closer to a Hummer than its figures made out, so it was effectively costing me loads to drive to work and back each week. A [...]
Read more →Well back in BT for the 3rd time in this job, to the old BIC Systems building down Airport Road West. This time the course is on Microsoft ISA Server 2004 (One of the vital services in my Remit). There is only 3 people attending it, myself and two guys from Dublin… guess its not [...]
Read more →So the last week we have been having somewhat of a good turn of weather, the Sun has been out and essentially “baking” here and everyone has been enjoying it.
Well except for today, which has been grey, dull yet still boiling… that was until the rain came.One lovely thunderstorm later, and its feeling somewhat cooler [...]