• About Colin

    As mad as a hatter... sometimes

    http://www.lostintheweb.co.uk

    How the Mighty have Fallen…

    by  • Thu 7th Jun, 2007 • Ramblings

    Seriously where the fuck have all these sales calls came from? its like a spate of morons calling up looking for someone looking to flog the Next-Best-Thingâ„¢.
    My boss is now off on the sick, his road trip to Germany for his new fancy Trike has knocked him back to suffering from the dreaded lurgy.
    The Senior [...]

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    Brain freeze

    by  • Tue 5th Jun, 2007 • Geek, Ramblings

    I have always wondered how some people manage to forget their passwords after 3 days.
    Hell, I have had people change their password, then forget it less than an hour later!
    I would see past it if we were strict with passwords and had them set to something like Bk3@~99Dra$1 and you had to write the [...]

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    Loosing Touch

    by  • Wed 23rd May, 2007 • Ramblings

    Has social networking sites made it easier or harder to loose touch with people?
    We have all read how MySpace and Bebo bring people together, its the new “watering hole” of the digital era where it allows groups of people to communicate quickly with their peers, but has it introduced a new affect, where its in [...]

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    Your Nemesis…

    by  • Wed 9th May, 2007 • Geek, Ramblings

    Okay, strange post of sorts coming up.
    Every so often I have came across a computer (or in this case a server) which through no reason decides that it has to blue-screen at random, the wonderful BSOD.
    We have a nice 12 server Citrix Farm, but 2 of these servers are based in our off-site disaster recovery [...]

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    I really should title my posts…

    by  • Mon 7th May, 2007 • Ramblings

    Last month I decided enough was enough, I threw the head up and asked Eclipse Internet for a MAC code. 5 Days later I gave Zen a call and transferred my service across. Why you might ask?

    Eclipse throttles p2p traffic, and I suspect nearly every other bit of traffic on their “oversubscribed” network, [...]

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    Mayday, Mayday…

    by  • Sat 14th Apr, 2007 • Ramblings

    Aah Bollocks.
    That was my first thought on Friday 6th April, when I walked into work to discover our major business system being out of action with a dodgy error, a quick phone call later to the “support people” and…
    it was still fubar’ed
    Its now the 14th April, its 9:33am and I’m in work doing [...]

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    fresh flowers..

    by  • Sat 17th Mar, 2007 • Ramblings

    I was right about it being a movie being shot, the Belfast Telegraph carried a story on Friday about Heather Graham shooting a movie called Buy, Borrow and Steal in the Clements coffee shop (News post here)
    Also its Mothering Sunday tomorrow (and St Patricks day today) so the shops in full swing.. last estimate was 250+ [...]

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    Famous coffee

    by  • Thu 15th Mar, 2007 • Ramblings

    Okay, so today is definately a strange day.  I decided to go grab myself a bottle of lemonade from the nearest shop (no vending machines in my workplace ) and I spotted a couple of grey vans with G&H on them.
    Now if you live in Northern Ireland, particularly Belfast you immediately associate G&H [...]

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    The pain…

    by  • Wed 14th Mar, 2007 • Ramblings

    I would say upgrading WordPress is easy…
    Except this time something broke god knows where the problem was buried, or if the problem was due to all the previous upgrades and tweaks that was ran (Oh, that and the fact that it was dragged across from my previous hosting provider) I started getting MySQL [...]

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    Strange places…

    by  • Sat 10th Mar, 2007 • Ramblings

    whoo, im back \o/
    been playing Xbox360 for a bit, bought Crackdown and been playing that for a while (also finally picked up Burnout Revenge as well, since I have the previous 3 Burnouts on the PS2… which looks crap on the Dell Widescreen) and tried out the GRAW2 Multiplayer Demo, might pick up the full [...]

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