Murmurs of Earth

At the risk of attracting “most boring post since that last crap space one” comments, I’d like to take a few moments to pay tribute to arguably the best space missions ever, Voyager. Launched an unbelievable 30 years ago, both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2...

The Hidden Millions of the E-Commerce Economy

I’ve calculated that if I live to somewhere near 1000 I might make £1M from my E-Commerce ’empire’. I have played with a number of ‘revenue’ streams over the years, never seriously, but mainly just to find out about how they work. This...

Just nosey…

As my reader will know, I have a website LazyWebTools that hosts a number of small tools, the most used of which is a simple and free Automatic Page Refresher. I check out the website hits every now and then and, for the most part, it is gamers and the like.For a...

Searching for inspiration

A while back now I got tired of hitting F5 all the time so decided to build a simple internet Automatic Page Refresher. It worked a treat. I stuck it on my website and it got used so much that I got attacked a lot and had to shut it down. That was when I moved it to...

The Last of the True Disbelievers

As I type some music is arriving in my house. It is the rather splendid 1985 mini-album by The Brilliant Corners, Growing Up Absurd. Not available on CD, I got it from EBay on vinyl and, being far too lazy to do it myself, Stuart* borrowed my USB turntable and he has...

Vista – Finally some good news

Finally some good news about Vista. After the disappointment of not being able to USB Stream by HandyCam in the Vista laptop. I picked myself up, got a Firewire/iLink cable and had a go with that.I have to say, it couldn’t have been much more impressive....