Technology and Social Responsbility

Yesterday saw the change in penalty in the UK for driving while on a mobile phone.This will doubtless cause a surge in the sales of various handsfree kits, bluetooth headsets etc.Cue collective hand-rubbing of technology providers.It struck me that there is a far...

CSS Tinkering

Inspired by the ongoing CSS travails of ManicMorFF, I decided to try a little CSS tinkering with the blog template tonight. Not everyone’s idea of a quiet Froday night in, I grant you, but I find it all strangely relaxing. But only if it works, if it...

Miniature Music

It wasn’t one of the most exciting things I have ever done, but I have just about finished ripping all my CDs onto hard drive. Something close to 40GB of the stuff. It took a long time but it has been worth it for a whole number of reasons.Firstly, and...
Ants Are Not Pants – Success in a Process Free World

Ants Are Not Pants – Success in a Process Free World

Have you ever sat and watched ants at work? It’s fascinating. Drop a small pile of sugar. Word soon gets round. Then they all appear, forming nice ordered lines, one in, one out, until all the sugar is gone. But that’s an easy task. They can build enormous...

All Around The World

Signed up for Google Analytics recently, you get quite a lot of cool stuff for free. And, for the record, I don’t subscribe to the “Google are the next Microsoft, taking over the world, yada, yada” thing. The do some very useful stuff.Anyway, in...

Death by Popularity – The Web Hosting Conundrum

There is a bit of a conundrum with the Internet. The more popular a site is, the more likely it is to fall over. This is especially true when you get a sudden spike of popularity.I can remember on September 11th, hitting the news sites to be met with a spectacular...